Cracking The Code

Poem, Thoughts 1 Minute

It takes me years,
Decades, sometimes,
To finally learn the words to some (most) songs,

I can’t pick apart the words from the background,
So it takes dedicated sessions,
Sitting down and practising them;

It’s quite frustrating, because until then,
I can’t sing along to even my favourite songs,
I have to be content with making sounds which sound like words,
Or in the best case, the words which I think I’m hearing,
But even then I am always wildly off πŸ˜†;

Consequently, songs come to mean very different things to me,
And I’m drawn to them through their overall sound,
Rather than their intended meaning;

I get frustrated at myself often, because the moments when I want to sing such songs (also often),
Rarely coincide with the opportunities to learn the words,
And if I’m not reacting in the moment,
Then I’m certainly not remembering.

πŸŒͺ

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I write poems which are mental health-themed, creative or humourous :). Within mental health I write a lot about: ADHD, OCD, anxiety, autism, emotional traumaβ€” usually with an optimistic slant. My goals for my blog are to give myself a therapeutic, creative outlet whilst also being able to connect with and relate to other people.

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11 thoughts on “Cracking The Code”

    2. I am putting it down to a combination of hearing problems (especially the fact that my hearing’s really omnidirectional) plus the common autistic/ADHD trait of finding it hard to separate out distinct sounds.

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  2. I remember one of my favourite songs in high school was by Sarah McLachlan, and there was one line that sounded to me like “kiss your sword.” I knew that didn’t make any sense, but I was convinced that’s what I was hearing. I found out later that the actual words were “kiss you so hard,” and I wondered why my brain wasn’t able to make that leap in the first place.

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    1. That’s exactly the kind of mishearing I do! And yeah even when it makes no sense at all, the actual obvious thing never occurs to me. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ possibly an interesting psychological phenomenon!

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