Mind Lyrics
Time won't change you
Money won't change you
[Pre-Chorus 1]
I haven't got the faintest idea
Everything seems to be up in the air at this point
[Chorus]
I need something to change your mind
I need something to change your mind
I need something to change your mind
I need something to change your mind
[Verse 2]
Drugs won't change you
Religion won't change you (What's a matter with you?)
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I haven't got the faintest idea
Everything seems to be up in the air at this time
[Chorus]
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
Science won't change you
Looks like I can't change you
[Pre-Chorus 3]
I try to talk to you to, to make things clear
But you're not even listening to me
And it comes directly from my heart to you
[Chorus]
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
I need something to change your mind (Mind)
About
I think David is addressing someone in this lyric, or at least a certain way people can sometimes be. People who are very rigid and think they already have it figured out. They don’t have “beginner’s mind.” It’s like in Making Flippy Floppy where he says “Nothing strikes your fancy/Nothing turns you on.”
What seems on the surface to be an indictment of someone else’s rigidity also calls the narrator’s own inflexibility into question. The person whose mind the narrator is trying to change only shows up as object to be modified, not something to be engaged with and respected as autonomous. The status of the narrator here is deeply, shall we say, ‘authoritarian’. The narrator is focused on ways to enforce his own perspective on someone else – he and the ‘other’ are in a mirror-play of recalcitrance.
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