Story Behind The Song

My Son ( Melody's Son) Robert is speical ed he has adhd and high functioning Autism and just got moved to middle sshool last year. The school didnt understand Robert. They told me they didnt know what to do with him. He got teased alot and told us one day that he felt like a statue of dirt. disvalued as a person not worlth the time to get to know. It has been a struggle to get the speical ed teachers and school system to care and to give him the resources nessacary to suceed and fo feel valued in the school system.

Song Description

Special Ed Kid in a world that doesnt understand his gifts because he doesnt fit in the mold of what is Normal

Lyrics

Mistakes Like Me
Melody Guy Tom Kimmel

I can feel colors
And make things with my hands
I can hear music
When no one else can

And I could tell stories
You would not believe
If only somebody
Could listen to me

chorus So what are my chances of turning out right?
And what kind of man will I be?
If I?ll never fit in this world as I am
What do they do with mistakes like me?

They say I?m crazy
They say I?m slow
I hear their whispers
Wherever I go

I know I?m not like
Anybody they?ve seen
So they call me special
That?s not what they mean

chorus And what are my chances of turning out right?
What kind of man will I be?
If I?ll never fit in this world as I am
What do they do with mistakes like me?

bridge So maybe I?m different
Maybe I?m strange
What does it matter
If that?s just how I came?

And who should decide
Who gets by on this earth?
Who gets to measure
What somebody?s worth?

(solo)


chorus What are my chances of turning out right?
And what kind of man will I be?
If I?ll never fit in this world as I am
What do they do with mistakes like me?

If I?ll never fit in this world as I am
What do they do with mistakes like me?




words & music: Tom Kimmel & Melody Guy
©2004 Morrissette Music/LGM Music (ASCAP) doc 3/29/04