Favorite Aspie-expressive song?

[GriffinGuitar12]

Two of my favorite songs spring to mind:

Edie Brickell - Circle Of Friends

Blind Melon - No Rain

YESSSSS!!! Two of my all time faves!!!! The Edie Brickell song really fits!!!!

 

[pax]

This happens to be my all-time favourite song. I love that it stands out to you as Aspie-relevant as well.

Here's mine. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", originally released by Nina Simone and covered by many, but Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam's recent version is especially beautiful to me.

People, do you understand me now?
Sometimes I seem a little mad
But don't you know that no one alive can always be an angel
When things go wrong I seem a little sad

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

You know, sometimes I'm so carefree
With a joy that's hard to hide
And sometimes it seems that all I have is worry
And then you're bound to see my other side

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy, I want you to know
That I never mean to take it out on you
Life has its problems, and I get more than my share
But that's one thing I never mean to do

I don't mean it....

People, don't you know I'm only human
Don't you know I have faults like anyone
But sometimes I find myself alone regretting
Some little thing, some foolish thing that I have done

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Don't let me be misunderstood
I'm just someone whose intentions are good
Don't let me be misunderstood

Don't let me be misunderstood
Don't let me be misunderstood

This happens to be my all-time favourite song. I love that it stands out to you as Aspie-relevant as well.

Here's mine. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", originally released by Nina Simone and covered by many, but Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam's recent version is especially beautiful to me.

People, do you understand me now?
Sometimes I seem a little mad
But don't you know that no one alive can always be an angel
When things go wrong I seem a little sad

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

You know, sometimes I'm so carefree
With a joy that's hard to hide
And sometimes it seems that all I have is worry
And then you're bound to see my other side

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy, I want you to know
That I never mean to take it out on you
Life has its problems, and I get more than my share
But that's one thing I never mean to do

I don't mean it....

People, don't you know I'm only human
Don't you know I have faults like anyone
But sometimes I find myself alone regretting
Some little thing, some foolish thing that I have done

But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Don't let me be misunderstood
I'm just someone whose intentions are good
Don't let me be misunderstood

Don't let me be misunderstood
Don't let me be misunderstood

My dad, who I believe was aspie, used to play and sing this when I was a kid, and I can relate to it also.

Here is another version. The aussies might recognise the ratbag guy in the middle with the voice of an angel

 

[pax]

I love circle of friends too. It was featured on an episode of cold case where a girl was bullied to death.

 

[royinpink]

Here's mine. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", originally released by Nina Simone and covered by many, but Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam's recent version is especially beautiful to me.

My dad, who I believe was aspie, used to play and sing this when I was a kid, and I can relate to it also.

Here is another version. The aussies might recognise the ratbag guy in the middle with the voice of an angel

Love the song, but it has a different meaning to me. I think Common's version (which samples the original) makes that meaning clear... (btw, I think the "dead presidents" in the song are a reference to Dead Prez)

I don't think there is one definitive meaning, but hearing the original (link goes to live version where she mentions The Animals covering her song) permanently changed how I interpret the song. Like NPR says here, "She could imbue a torch song with such potency and resistance that she often ended up redefining the very meaning of the song itself. For how else can we explain Simone's transformation of the love song, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," whose original melody and chorus lyric were written by Horace Ott after a temporary falling out with his girlfriend, Gloria Caldwell, into what sounds like a musical meditation on racial suffering and black existentialism."

 

[dakota dorner]

 

[ancusmitis]

I feel "Caught in the Middle" deserves a mention

Looking inside of yourself
You might see someone you don't know, uh
Maybe it's just what you need
Letting the river in you flow

You can sail away to the sun
And let it burn you while you can
Or walk a long bloody road
Like the hero who never ran

You'll feel it
You'll feel it
You'll feel the rush of it all, yeah

Flying away in the clouds
You know you're loosing your control, uh
Finding you way in the dark
Like some poor forgotten soul

You'll feel it
You'll see it
You'll feel the rush of the city lights
You'll feel it
I see it in your eyes

You're caught in the middle
Just like the way you've always been
Caught in the middle - helpless again

Yeah, looking inside of yourself
You might see someone you don't know
Maybe it's just what you need
Letting the river I know that's in you flow

You'll feel it
You'll see it
You'll feel the rush of thunder
You'll feel it
I see it in your eyes

You're caught in the middle
Just like the way you've always been
Caught in the middle - helpless again, o-oh...

 

[Cerulean]

The chorus from a Terri Clark song. I'm really not a country fan and I don't have this dynamic in my relationship thankfully, but the song is about how she and her man fight and she just needs time to get over it:

I'll never leave, I'll never stray
My love for you will never change
But I ain't ready to make up or get around to that
I think I'm right I think your wrong
I'll probably give in before long
Please don't make me smile
I just want to be mad for awhile

I can relate because sometimes I just need some time to get through my negative emotions on my own time and can't be rushed getting myself back to normal.

 

[Nacho]

This one; considering both persons in the song myself; one part the part that has to cope with daily things and is always stressed; the other, when I am alone and in peace (which is not very often):

"Shiver" by Lucy Rose

We broke
Everything that was right
We both enjoyed a good fight

And we sewed
All the holes we had to breathe
To make the other one live

And I loved the way you looked at me
And I miss the way you made me feel
When we were alone
When we were alone

And I'll shiver like I used to
And I'll leave him just for you
And I'll shiver like I used to
Just for you

And we stole
Every moment we had to make the other one feel bad
And we hoped that we could be what we knew
It never turn out to be real

And I loved the way you looked at me
And I miss the way you made me feel
When we were alone
When we were alone

And I'll shiver like I used to
And I'll leave him just for you
And I'll shiver like I used to
Just for you

And if we turn back time
Could we learn to live right
And if we turn back time
Could we learn to live right
And if we turn back time
Could we learn to live right
And if we turn back time
Could we learn

And I'll shiver like I used to
And I'll leave him just for you
And I'll shiver like I used to
Just for you

Like I used to

 

[Girl Anachronism]

Help I'm Alive - Metric

I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer

 

[StephF]

Whats going on ?

 

[pax]

Not so much the song. DEFINATLY the video clip

 

[qwerty]

 

[Girl Anachronism]

Girl Anachronism - The Dresden Dolls

You can tell
From the scars on my arms
And the cracks in my hips
And the dents in my car
And the blisters on my lips
That I'm not the carefullest of girls
You can tell
From the glass on the floor
And the strings that're breaking
And I keep on breaking more
And it looks like I am shaking
But it's just the temperature
And then again
If it were any colder I could disengage
If I were any older I could act my age
But I don't think that you'd believe me
It's not the way
I'm meant to be
It's just the way
The operation made me
And you can tell
From the state of my room
That they let me out too soon
And the pills that I ate
Came a couple years too late
And I've got some issues to work through
There I go again
Pretending to be you
Make believing
That I have a soul beneath the surface
Trying to convince you
It was accidentally on purpose
I am not so serious
This passion is a plagiarism
I might join your century
But only on a rare occasion
I was taken out
Before the labor pains set in and now
Behold the world's worst accident
I am the girl anachronism
And you can tell
By the red in my eyes
And the bruises on my thighs
And the knots in my hair
And the bathtub full of flies
That I'm not right now at all
There I go again
Pretending that I'll fall
Don't call the doctors
'Cause they've seen it all before
They'll say just
Let her crash
And burn
She'll learn
The attention just encourages her
And you can tell
From the full-body cast
That I'm sorry that I asked
Though you did everything you could
Like any decent person would
But I might be catching so don't touch
You'll start believing
You're immune to gravity and stuff
Don't get me wet
Because the bandages will all come off
And you can tell
From the smoke at the stake
That the current state is critical
Well it is the little things, for instance
In the time it takes to break it
She can make up ten excuses
Please excuse her for the day
It's just the way the medication makes her
I don't necessarily believe there is a cure for this
So I might join your century but only as a doubtful guest
I was too precarious removed as a caesarian
Behold the worlds worst accident
I am the girl anachronism
I am the girl anachronism
I am the girl anachronism
I am the girl anachronism
I am the girl
I am the girl
I am the girl
I am the girl anachronism

 

[Adder1234]

Not exactly aspie, but deffinitely anxiety.

I walked the whole nine yards
Across town and missed the boat
I gave your diamond ring
To the rough part of the sea
I left a pocket full of sunshine
In my other jeans
And then it rained cats and dogs
And I'm allergic to them all
YEAH

Try not to think about it
Try not to dwell on it
But I like to worry myself sometimes
About things I can't control
I didn't wear a smile today
I looked up and all the blue skies turned grey
I don't know how I'm expected to carry on this way
This ain't my year this ain't my week this ain't my day [x2]

Embraced my red letter day
And then the mail didn't run
I stopped to smell a rose
But ate s**t and poisoned oak
I went out on a limb
And a little bird told me off
I took one for the road
And drove directly into a wall
C'MON

Try not to think about it
Try not to dwell on it
But I like to worry myself sometimes
About things I can't control
I didn't wear a smile today
I looked up and all the blue skies turned grey
I don't know how I'm expected to carry on this way
This ain't my year this ain't my week this ain't my day [x2]

My trucks broken down
My stomach feels sick
My phone just died and my neighbour is a d**k
I lost my wallet
My back hurts, My knee hurts
But who am I to complain

I didn't wear a smile today
I looked up and all the blue skies turned grey
I don't know how I'm expected to carry on this way
This ain't my year this ain't my week this ain't my day
(Should never of got out of bed)
I didn't wear a smile today
I looked up and all the blue skies turned grey
This ain't my year this ain't my week this ain't my day
This ain't my week this ain't my year this ain't my day [x2]

 

[Nekochan]

2 songs remade by Postmodern Jukebox stand out for me, especially the first one:

"Here" from Alessia Kara

and "no surprises" from Radiohead

 

[jamesaldrin]

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's only me and I walk alone.

I used to sing this back in Freshman year of high school. It's called "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day.

 

[Neramo]

Deus meus adiuva me Tabhair dom do shearc,a Mhic ghil Dé Tabhair dom do shearc,a Mhic ghil Dé Deus meus adiuva me.
Domine da quod peto a te, Tabhair dom go dian a ghrian ghlan ghlé, Tabhair dom go dian a ghrian ghlan ghlé, Domine da quod peto a te.
Tuum amorem sicut vis Tabhair dom go tréan a déarfad arís; Tabhair dom go tréan a déarfad arís, Tuum amorem sicut vis
Domine, Domine, exaudi me, M'anam bheith lán ded' ghrá, a Dhé; M'anam bheith lán ded' ghrá, a Dhé, Domine, Domine exaudi me.

 

[umbrellabeach]

 

[abby normal]

"solitary man" [neil diamond]

 

[Girl Anachronism]

"How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths

I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does

I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and the heir
of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does

There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen "now"
well, when exactly do you mean?
see I've already waited too long
and all my hope is gone

You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does