Songs For Aspies

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Going through my tunes on my computer for stuff I find relevant to AS (as opposed to relevant to my other issues):

Green Day, both on American Idiot: extraordinary girl, and that 30-second clip in homecoming when it goes, "I feel asleep while watching Spike TV after 10 cups of coffe and you're still not here. Dreaming of a song but something went wrong. After 10 cups of coffee I'm thinking: Nobody likes you, everyone's left you, they're all out wituhout you, having fun." ((God I love that part))

The Firm- Star Trekkin' (don't shoot me for that one, I'm just guessing there may be a couple of aspies who might also have trekkie tendencies- though I myself prefer next gen)

Kelly Clarkson- beautiful disaster (I'd be one if I got a makeover, right now I'm a passable disaster!)

Jason Mraz- too much food (kinda)

And absolutely every single track on the monty python spamalot soundtrack. Buy it. Everyone. Now. "The song that goes like this" is so insanely funny that you may not want to listen to it while driving.

I once wrote a song about a man who was robbed of his brain by an ice cream vendor and became a drunken hobo..... Of course, considering the title of this thread, I don't think it'd quite fit here.

Heres a great AS song:

Reel Big Fish- "Somebody Hates Me"

i just made an enemy of someone i don't know
and they are upset about somethin' that i
must have done. it really doesn't make much sense
well i've got no statement in my defense

i know, no matter what, no matter who, no
matter what i do, somebody hates me and i hate somebody too.

did you misunderstand
something that i did or was there one
of my jokes that you didn't get or do you think
you've got the way i think all figured out.
what did i say, to make you feel i'm not cool now?

i know, no matter what no matter who
no matter what i do, somebody hates me and i hate somebody too.
i know its wrong, but i do it to and i guess i should say
don't let it get to you.

i know, no matter what no matter who
no matter what i do somebody hates me and i
hate somebody too somebody like you.

Yet another GBS aspie song, sorta, I see the world of NTs like this.

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)


It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds,
snakes, and aeroplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
psyched.
CHORUS:
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a votive, light a candle. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.
CHORUS x 2
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
CHORUS x 2

Green Day- "Burnout"

I declare I don't care no more
I'm burning up and out and growing bored
In my smoked out boring room
My hair is shagging in my eyes
Dragging my feet to hit the street tonight
To drive along these s**t town lights

I'm not growing up
I'm just burning out
And I stepped in line
to walk amongst the dead

A pathy has rained on me
Now I'm feeling like a soggy dream
So close to drowning but I don't mind
I've lived inside this mental cave
Throw my emotions in the grave
Hell, who needs them anyway

I'm not growing up
I'm just burning out
And I stepped in line
to walk amongst the dead

Augh, so much Green Day... all of it stolen from this:

The Who
"I'm One" from Quadrophenia (which is what American Idiot was stolen wholesale from)

Every year is the same
And I feel it again,
I'm a loser - no chance to win.
Leaves start falling,
Come down is calling,
Loneliness starts sinking in.

But I'm one.
I am one.
And I can see
That this is me,
And I will be,
You'll all see
I'm the one.

Where do you get
Those blue blue jeans?
Faded patched secrets so tight.
Where do you get
That walk oh-so-lean?
Your shoes and your shirts
Fit just right.

But I'm one.
I am one.
And I can see
That this is me,
And I will be,
You'll all see
I'm the one.

I got a Gibson
Without a case
But I can't get that even tanned look on my face.
Ill fitting clothes
I blend in the crowd,
Fingers so clumsy
Voice too loud.

But I'm one.
I am one.
And I can see
That this is me,
And I will be,
You'll all see
I'm the one.
Yeah, I'm the one!

Here's one for the whole spectrum:

How does it feel - Avril Lavigne

Dumb - Nirvana (Expecially the first first: "I'm not like them, but I can pretend")

I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme) - John Rzeznik (The first half at least, I'm not sure about the second half)

The Moody Blues - Watching and Waiting

Watching the Wheels, by John Lennon:

People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing,
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin,
When I say that I'm o.k. they look at me kind of strange,
Surely your not happy now you no longer play the game,

People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away,
Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me,
When I tell that I'm doing Fine watching shadows on the wall,
Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball?

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round,
I really love to watch them roll,
No longer riding on the merry-go-round,
I just had to let it go,

People asking questions lost in confusion,
Well I tell them there's no problem,
Only solutions,
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind,
I tell them there's no hurry...
I'm just sitting here doing time,

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round,
I really love to watch them roll,
No longer riding on the merry-go-round,
I just had to let it go.

List updated.

I'll have to think of some more songs later but right now I am in insomnia mode.

I don´t want to sound pessimistic, but what about:

Nightwish - Planet Hell

Ironman-Black Sabbath

Bloodhound Gang- "I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks"

My friend Jerry Vandergrift kissed me in Home Ec. class
Later in the afternoon some jarheads in the locker room kicked my ass
I said guys I'm like you I like Monster Trucks too
Wanna see how many push-ups I can do?
I just wish I was queer so I could get chicks
Chicks dig guys that are
Queer guys that don't dig
Chicks that don't dig guys like me
See I'm not queer I'm too ugly
But if I were handsome just imagine how great it would be
Incognito as gay though but not actually that way though pseudo homo phony
Maybe it's a stupid theory or maybe just stupidity
But if I was a queerbee in the fashion industry
Scoring with a super model would be easy
Cause 'super model' means voluptuous but is also is synonomous with 'super dumb'
Ya see I'd be a good listener so she'd treat me like a sister and soon I'd become
That trusted friend that cares that rubs her back and braids her hair
No it wouldn't be a week before I'm in her underwear
I wish I was queer so I could get chicks
Chicks dig guys that are
Queer guys that don't dig
Chicks that don't dig guys like me
See I'm not queer I'm too ugly
Doesn't matter what I'm packin' in my denim it's what's in my genes
The only smoked meat the only sausage I would eat is made by Jimmy Dean
See I'm not to keen on the smell of Vaseline
No I'm not Princess Di and I don't wanna be a queen
I wish I was queer so I could get chicks

Anyway if I were gay I'd have to change my name to Dirk or Lewis
Hang out with my mom's hair stylist his name is Kip he's got a lisp he talks like this
And wear my mother's lingerie learn the songs of Broadway
And appreciate Depeche Mode and avant garde ballet
I wish I was queer so I could get chicks
Chicks dig guys that are
Queer guys that don't dig
Chicks dig guys that are
Queer guys that don't dig
Chicks dig guys that are
Queer guys that don't dig
Chicks that don't dig guys like me
See I'm not queer I'm too ugly
And I don't shave my heiny
Don't shave my heiny
See I'm not queer I'm too ugly

rasec - the autistic

more suggestions for "the best aspie album in the world... ever":

charmless man by blur (selected lyrics)
love is a stranger by eurythmics
silence is golden by garbage
i just wanna live by good charlotte
robot song by kenickie
is she weird by pixies
bailey's walk by pixies (for those who also have TS)
human by the pretenders
the you in me by radish
not like the other girls by the rasmus
moonchild by shakespear's sister

birds can fly and fish can swim
but on this planet where do i fit in?
i could be in trouble or just imagining
sometimes i feel like an alien
i make them laugh, i make them stare
but mr. jones said "hey, young girl
don't feel sorry for yourself
the world's out there"

ask by the smiths
no one understands by space
we might as well be strangers by keane
love, truth & honesty by bananarama
i can't read you by daniel beddingfield
leave me alone by michael jackson
and probably everything that radiohead has ever done.