Autism sing : Through My Eyes ( Thanh Bui )

“Through My Eyes” a song by Valerie Foley (mum of Billy in Fran’s)

“Through My Eyes”, sung by Thanh Bui, is a song about what it can feel like when you are autistic. I wrote the lyrics this year, inspired by the way our son Billy lives his life.
It’s been an amazing year for us, not least because Billy has found something at Currambena that we weren’t sure he would ever find – acceptance. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to write the lyrics of “Through My Eyes” before now, because we were too busy wondering how our little square peg would find any holes that were even remotely interesting to him. Autism, in our view at least, isn’t so much a disorder as a different way of seeing the world, and your relationship to it. That’s what “Through My Eyes” is about, and also, we have discovered, what Currambena is about!
Through My Eyes is available for download on iTunes Australia now (for $1.69), and all proceeds go to Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect).
It’s on YouTube too .....

with love, Valerie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--g9JUmVeJ4&feature=player_embedded

"Through my eyes"

lyrics by Valerie Foley music by Fiona Johnson copyright January

2009

verse 1

see the world through my eyes

it changes shape and it changes size

it's not quite the world you see

if you could find a way

to look around inside my mind

maybe you would understand me

chorus

I'm not blind, but I can't always see

I'm not deaf but things can sound strange to me

I'm not trapped but it's hard to feel free

imagine what it's like to be me

verse 2

It's hard for me to try

to think things through or talk like you

everything can be a blur sometimes

but if you walk along beside me

hold my hand and guide me

together any mountain we can climb

chorus

I'm not blind, but I can't always see

I'm not deaf but things can sound strange to me

I'm not trapped but it's hard to feel free

imagine what it's like to be me

imagine what it's like to be me

bridge

I'm dreaming of my future and it's brighter than you know

I'll get there on a different road when I am ready to go

verse 3

I don't need pity

I don't need tears

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I just need someone to help me

understand my fears

show me you believe in me

let me know that I'm ok

help me feel safe in the world

and I will find my way

chorus

I'm not blind, but I can't always see

I'm not deaf but things can sound strange to me

I'm not trapped but it's hard to feel free

imagine what it's like to be me

imagine what it's like ....

imagine seeing the world through my eye