Skilpadde wrote:
Yes! Thank you! I was waiting for someone else to say "Mad World" (although I prefer the original Tears for Fears version better - it's in a better key signature, imho).
All around me are familiar faces
Worn-out places, worn-out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very, very
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
To feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello, teacher, tell me, what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through meIf you've ever read Nick Dubin's book
Asperger's Syndrome and Anxiety, in it he discusses a type of job anxiety called "existential employment worries," in which an individual on the spectrum experiences dread that they will lose their individuality in the workforce, something I think is very well-expressed in the chorus line of that song.
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