Has anyone heard of Sarah Bettens? She's a Belgian pop/rock singer-songwriter. I got her new album "Scream" a couple weeks ago and it's pretty good... anyways she has a song called "not insane", which I've heard described as being about small-minded people who can't accept those who are different. I think it's about homophobia, but I also think it can be applied to curebies. What do you think?
Here are the lyrics:
For everytime you tell me that I can't be who I am
For everytime you twist my arm and get me to confess
For every door you close on me
For every boy or girl you turn your back to
You will pay, the price of some day knowing that you think you tried and yet you failed to see that you can't change me
I told myself today
It's pretty nice to find your way
no matter what you say
I am not insane
For every so-called victory you lose a piece of you
And when it shows you love can be in everything you do
...love can be in everything you do...
I told myself today
It's pretty nice to find your way
No matter what you say
I am not insane...
Look inside you
Find what drives you
I can't change you
I told myself today
It's pretty nice to find your way
No matter what you say
I am not insane...
I told myself today
It's pretty nice to find your way
No matter what you say
I am not insane...
Beautiful, truthful lyrics -- thanks for posting them. I will show them to my students...
hmm, quite a song, much good it would do if listen people did.
Hmm... after watching the video a few times, I'm starting to believe that maybe the song was originally intended to be about autism. The whole thing with the psychiatrist's office and the inkblots, the people wearing the "not insane" T-shirts...maybe Sarah is an aspie herself? Or she knows someone who is? Maybe we can get her to support our cause...
Actually I think the underlying message is more about the insanity of the outside world - with people being labelled insane for stuff like homosexuality or speaking out, while the apparently "sane" people (ie. Bush, other world leaders) are killing the world off over money, power and religion. (Bank notes, mushroom clouds etc)
Notice there's a lot of anti-war rhetoric (Even so far as seeing implements of war in the ink blots XD)
But it's certainy not a bad choice to put to an Aspie campaign =p
It's about a lot, not just AS. It's about everyone who's different, rejected, and misunderstood. Minorities everywhere.
Pretty encouraging, though. It's weird that a famous person should understand the strangeness of being different... but then, I guess, famous people are in the minority too.
when i saw this thread title the 1st thing i thought of was an episode of the Simpsons in which Homer is sent to a mental institution. Upon being admitted they rubber stamped one hand with 'insane' - when he was being released they stamped his other hand 'not insane'. Later on he is shown over a sink scrubbing his hand marked insane saying, "Come off, I'm sane now!"
the way the lyrics are written are quite bipolar.
i dont know who to express it better, i always find lyrics written by bipolars to hit me in a special way.
this did.
i did not like the song, nor the video, but i liked the lyrics.
i am not saying she is bipolar, but she has that thing that ppl with bipolardisorder have when they write.
It's about a lot, not just AS. It's about everyone who's different, rejected, and misunderstood. Minorities everywhere.
Pretty encouraging, though. It's weird that a famous person should understand the strangeness of being different... but then, I guess, famous people are in the minority too.
Plus, most famous people were born just as unknown as you or I.
This reminds me of the song "Vincent" by Don McLean:
Starry, starry night
Paint your pallet blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
Withe eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Starry, starry night
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
With colors on the snowy linen land
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds of violet haze
Reflect in Vincen'ts eyes a China blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined with pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hands
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Starry starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
A silver thorn a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will....
This is a great song, and has a strong point that people should listen to. Just because someone is different doesn't mean they're insane.