The Ultimate Asperger's Song

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I thought the PERFECT song was Marillion - The Man From Planet Marzipan:

I am the man from the planet Marzipan
Good to see you
My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light
And all my arms and all my legs are much too long
Much too long

My head is in a state, unaccustomed to the weight
I wear this mild expression, I'm an alien to aggression
Music only does me in my skins so thin

There’s so much that I can’t take in
There’s so much that I can’t take in
There's so much that I daren't take in

Can you feel through my skin to me?
Can you feel through my skin to me?

Throw a tarpaulin over me
I look like a rotary washing line
I am the face of 2069
I have trouble with my breathing
My net-curtain lungs
And the thoughtlessness of other people's careless tongues

The air's so thin
Oh my skin
The air's so thin
Oh my skin

I am the man from the planet Marzipan
My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light
I wear this mild expression, I'm an alien to aggression

The air's so thin
Oh my skin
Oh my skin..

I'm so close..
I'm so close to a breakdown
A constant crisis in the heart

What the hell is going on here?
Earth creatures. Amazing, beautiful and mad.
Monkeys trying to be stars
Monkeys carrying their Gods around
Lies and murder in the name of heaven
Seen it all before in the kindergartens of the Universe
It would be quaint if it wasn't so damned scary

I can’t listen and I can’t watch
I can see inside the machine
I can see the join! I can see the join.

Can you feel through my skin to me?
Can you see through my skin?
It's all here in my skin, you see
It's all here in my skin,
Here in my skin!

If you really look
It's a nursery book.

The Who's Behind Blue Eyes has grabbed me by the throat for about 40 years now.

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Half Jack by The Dresden Dolls. I don't know if it could apply to all people, but it sure as hell describes my expression of Asperger's.

half underwater
i'm half my mother's daughter
a fraction's left up to dispute
the whole collection
half off the price they're asking
in the halfway house of ill repute

half accidental
half pain full instrumental
i have a lot to think about
you think they're joking?
you have to go provoke him...
i guess it's high time you found out

it's half biology and half corrective surgery gone wrong
you'll notice something funny if you hang around here for too
long ago in some black hole before they had these pills to take it back
i'm half jill
and half jack

two halves are equal
a cross between two evils
it's not an enviable lot
but if you listen
you'll learn to hear the difference
between the halfs and the half nots

and when i let him in i feel my stitches getting sicker
i try to wash him out but like she said:the blood is thicker
i see my mother in my face
but only when i travel
i run as fast as i can run
but
jack comes tumbling after....

and even when i'm brave enough and find a clever way to kick him out
and i'm so high not even you and all your love could bring me down
on 83rd he never found the magic words to change this fact:
i'm half jill
and half jack

i'm halfway home now
half hoping
for a showdown
cause i'm not big enough to house this crowd
it might destroy me
but i'd sacrifice my body
if it meant i'd get the jack part OUT

see

jack

run..... [b]


Now that I think about it, I don't really need the bold. The whole song pretty much sums it up.

There's a line in the Nirvana song "All Apologies" that makes me think about some of the things in life that I can't get my head around but other people can:

I wish I was like you
Easily amused

I reminds me of a girl I recentley knew and she likes to get drunk alot and looks at life differently than I do. Does this lyric relate to anyone else with AS?

Ha! Great post.

I always get more dark-

like Metallica "One:"

"(Neurotoxin) has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell."

"Name" - The Goo Goo Dolls. It's supposed to be a "love ballad from an orphaned child to his parents", but I've always interpreted it to be a song about my life. Here are the lyrics, with annotations about how they relate to me in parenthesis:

And even though the moment passed me by
I still can't turn away (I have trouble letting go of the past)
'Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose
Got tossed along the way (For while, I gave up on my life's goals)
And letters that you never meant to send
got lost or thrown away

And now we're grown up orphans
That never knew their names
And don't belong to no one, that's a shame
You could hide beside me, maybe for awhile (I always want to have one-on-one time with my mom or brother)
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name

Scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far (I'm still hurt by things that happened several years ago)
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there?
Did you get to be a star? (I always seem to get lost in my imagination, where I'm the star/center of attention)
And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are?

You grew up way too fast
Now there's nothing to believe
When reruns all become our history (I tend to remember the seasons of my life by whatever shows I was interested in at the time)
A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio (sometimes, when I listen to a certain song or artist again and again, the singer begins to sound "tired" to me)
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name

I think about you all the time
But I don't need the same (relates to a former friend of mine; I think about her constantly but I don't know or care if she thinks about me anymore)
It's lonely where you are, come back down (what my mom probably thinks about me when I'm lost in my imagination)
And I won't tell 'em you name

I gotta go with Radiohead.
A lot of their songs deal with particular states of mind that I think we are all familiar with.
This one is so simple, but it just happens to really speak to me.
The video supplements the meaning quite well, too.

No Surprises - by Radiohead

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqsyXdj_p_I[/youtube]
Lyrics:
A heart that's full up like a landfill,
a job that slowly kills you,
bruises that won't heal.
You look so tired-unhappy,
bring down the government,
they don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take a quiet life,
a handshake of carbon monoxide,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
Silence, silence.

This is my final fit,
my final bellyache,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises please.

Such a pretty house
and such a pretty garden.

No alarms and no surprises (get me outta here),
no alarms and no surprises (get me outta here),
no alarms and no surprises, please.

coldplay - talk

Oh brother I can't, I can't get through
I've been trying hard to reach you, cause I don't know what to do
Oh brother I can't believe it's true
I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
Oh I wanna talk to you
You can take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done

Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how do you feel?
Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak
And they're talking it to me

So you take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or a write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
Do something that's never been done

So you don't know were you're going, and you wanna talk
And you feel like you're going where you've been before
You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored
Nothing's really making any sense at all
Let's talk, let's ta-a-alk
Let's talk, let's ta-a-alk

Perfect Aspie song: anything by Philip Glass.

Isolation by Joy Division

In fear every day, every evening,
He calls her aloud from above,
Carefully watched for a reason,
Painstaking devotion and love,
Surrendered to self preservation,
From others who care for themselves.
A blindness that touches perfection,
But hurts just like anything else.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

Mother I tried please believe me,
Im doing the best that I can.
Im ashamed of the things Ive been put through,
Im ashamed of the person I am.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

But if you could just see the beauty,
These things I could never describe,
This is my one consolation,
This is my one true prize.

Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation.

What about Armatage Shanks by Greenday:


Stranded...lost inside myself
My own worst friend
My own closest enemy
Branded...maladjusted
Never trusted anyone
Let alone myself
I must insist
On being a pessimist
I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
Elected the rejected
I perfected the science of the idiot
No meaning...no healing
Self loathing freak and introverted deviot

I almost forgot about it, but i used to listen to it a lot during my years of struggle and confusion.

"Beautiful Lie" By Amy Studt

"Imaginary" by Evanescence

Those 2 just off the top of my head.

I still find it pretty difficult to understand or hear most lyrics.

I'm Not Like Everybody Else by The Kinks

I won't take all that they hand me down,
And make out a smile, though I wear a frown,
And I won't take it all lying down,
'Cause once I get started I go to town.

'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

And I don't want to ball about like everybody else,
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else,
And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else,
'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

But darling, you know that I love you true,
Do anything that you want me to,
Confess all my sins like you want me to,
There's one thing that I will say to you,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else
And I don't want to ball about like everybody else,
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else,
And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else,
'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

Like everybody else,
Like everybody else,
Like everybody else,
Like everybody else.

If you all want me to settle down,
Slow up and stop all my running 'round,
Do everything like you want me to,
There's one thing that I will say to you,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.
And I don't want to ball about like everybody else,
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else,
And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else,
'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

Like everybody else (like everybody else),
Like everybody else (like everybody else),
Like everybody else (like everybody else),
Like everybody else.