Joined: Nov 24, 2010 Age: 24 Posts: 26 Location: Nowhere, CA
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 10:27 pm Post subject: Who identifies with these lyrics?
I was listening to Plummet's "Damaged" yet again a little earlier and I thought I'd post the lyrics, just to see if anyone else here identifies with them.
Dreaming comes so easily
'Cause it's all that I know
True love is a fairy tale
I'm damaged so how would I know
I'm scared and I'm alone
I'm ashamed and I need for you to know
I didn't say all the things that I wanted to say
And you can't take back what you have taken away
Cause I feel you
I feel you near me
I didn't say all the things that I wanted to say
And you can't take back what you have taken away
Cause I feel you
I feel you near me
Healing comes so painfully
And it chills to the bone
Will anyone get close to me?
I'm damaged as I'm sure you know
I'm scared and I'm alone
I'm ashamed and I need for you to know
I didn't say all the things that I wanted to say
And you can't take back what you have taken away
Cause I feel you
I feel you near me
I can't go back
I can't go back
I can't go back
I must go on
I must go on
It's supposedly about sexual abuse, yet I've never been sexually abused and I can relate to it perfectly. I'm guessing most likely other Aspies can as well, given how many of us feel so cut off from other people. _________________ Always watching what your eyes can't see
Thinking you are in need
Always hearing what your ears can't hear
Thinking you are incomplete
Joined: May 02, 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 39 Location: North Idaho
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 3:03 am Post subject:
I love love love that song. The original artist was Plumb, Plummet covered it later. I only know her version, never heard Plummet's. It's on her album "candycoatedwaterdrops". There is a very good techno remix of the song too, which I also love, though the different sound/tempo almost gives the song an entirely new meaning. I love pretty much everything I've heard from her. Another song by her I really identify with is "Bittersweet"
I've been carrying this old luggage
And I'ts been really bugging me
So when you called to see me
I couldn't believe it
Could it really be?
You need to feel forgiveness
I need to feel resentment
Running down the drain
This bruising chain I've carried
Is the pain that I am marrying today
(Chorus)
Now I can breath
And I feel grace brush over me
It pours through my skin
And lets you in
And we are free
Now I can breath
And I feel grace brush over me
It runs through my vains
And what I taste is bitter sweet
The clock is always ticking
Bitterness grows by the minute
Why can't we realize
The wounds that we're inflicting
On our flesh it isn't healing
By keeping love inside (Yeah)
(Chorus)
Now I can breath
And I feel grace brush over me
It pours through my skin
And lets you in
And we are free
Now I can breath
And I feel grace brush over me
It runs through my vains
And what I taste is bitter sweet
Bitter sweet _________________ Your Aspie score: 181 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 40 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
INTJ
What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Even though I haven't heard the song, I can defiantly relate. Have you heard of KiD CuDi's "Man On The Moon"?
They can't comprenhend
They even come close to understanding him
I guess if I was borin they would love me more
Guess if I was simple in the mind
Everything would be fine
Maybe if I was jerk to girls
Instead of being nice and speakin kind words
Then maybe it would be ok to say then
I wasn't a good guy to begin with
I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man
These sensations barely interest me for another day
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away
Last edited by Cutlass_Jack on Fri May 18, 2012 7:14 pm; edited 1 time in total
Have been listening to this song quite a bit again lately...
Here's the 808 Remix, accompanied by the awesome AMV of Evangelion's Ayanami Rei that Koopiskeva made (might induce seizures in those who are sensitive to that, though):
_________________ clarity of thought before rashness of action
Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 4:18 am Post subject: Re: Who identifies with these lyrics?
ValaMephista wrote:
It's supposedly about sexual abuse, yet I've never been sexually abused and I can relate to it perfectly. I'm guessing most likely other Aspies can as well, given how many of us feel so cut off from other people.
I read the lyrics and didn't 'see' anything - sometimes texts hold no particular meaning to me (I know it might sound offensive... but that's truly something in how I'm wired, so I apologise), but now that you've said it's about sexual abuse, I'm drawn to things like that for no particular reason either, maybe just drawn to the dramatisation of something I haven't experienced. I actually know too many songs about it.
