25 April, 2010

Pop songs are so much better at saying things than I am

Seriously, isn't this AWESOME? I've liked it for a long time but it just occurred to me to take it in a particular way.



This is my face
Covered in freckles, with the occasional spot and some veins
This is my body
Covered in skin, and not all of it you can see
And this is my mind
It goes over and over the same old lines
And this is my brain
Its torturous analytical thoughts make me go insane

And I use mouthwash, sometimes I floss
I've got a family and I drink cups of tea
I've got nostalgic pavements and I've got familiar faces
I've got mixed-up memories and I've got favorite places

And I'm singing uh-oh on a Friday night
And I hope everything's gonna be all right

This is my face
I've got a thousand opinions and not the time to try to explain
And this is my body
No matter how you try and disable it, yes I'll still be here
And this is my mind
And although you try to infringe you cannot confine
And this is my brain
And even if you try and hold me back there's nothing that you can gain

'Cause I use mouthwash, sometimes I floss
I've got a family I drink cups of tea
I've got nostalgic pavements and I've got familiar faces
I've got mixed-up memories and I've got favorite places

And I'm singing uh-oh on a Friday night
And I hope everything's gonna be all right

repeat ad infinitum, since this is a pop song

(By the way thanks for stroking my fragile ego, I think I was feeling about six years old when I made that post. Now Todd has explained to me that I can get sitemeter so I don't have to ask.)

3 comments:

  1. Wow, I never noted the lyrics in this song (except for the "uh-oh" bit) so I never thought of it as relating to disability, but now I see how it could. I certainly have a brain which goes over the same old lines, whether or not I want it to.

    I really like her song "Merry Happy," which I was just about to say has nothing to do with ASD, but then I remembered it has one lyric that I really identify with. "Don't you try and tell me that you never loved me/ I know that you did, 'cause you said it and you wrote it down." That insistence on consistency in others reminds me of myself, though I'm not sure if it's an ASD thing or not. I mean, like you say, how can I tell what's an ASD/NLD thing and what isn't? I don't know what it's like to live without it.

    (Also, since posting that comment I have been keeping track of the number of times I check this blog, and it's definitely more than once a day, so yeah. It's become a repetetive behavior that I exhibit.)

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  2. It's still nice to get validation and acknowledgement, though. And to give it also.

    Yes, the song above is awesome.

    It makes me think of Jann Arden's Good Mother.

    Enjoy Nash's new album when and if you have it.

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  3. You guys don't have to comment on really dumb posts just because I was being a baby. I don't really write things for comments. I do write things for people to read though and I just got worried that maybe I jumped the shark and people weren't reading things anymore.

    Additionally Zoe, sitemeter says that you only came here twice yesterday so it's not a very repetitive behavior. Sitemeter is also enabling me to be INCREDIBLY CREEPY! (For example I saw that my friend came here when he claimed to be doing his homework, so then I IMed him and said "if you can read I'm somewhere else you can talk to me." Hopefully once the novelty wears off I'll stop creeping on people.)

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