Portugal. The Man – My Mind

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  General Comment:If you read get the vinyl and read the lyrics printed it says:
  
  My mind is all gone.
  Down deep pace past,
  finding another there, got a dollar?
  Sold!
  You are hands, just do as I please.
  I feel my body moving
  and feel these feet a moving.
  
  So there's a layer.

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  General Comment:this song describes the comedown from when i first tried acid...listening to this and the woods snapped me back into reality and brought me back from inside myself. it sounded so beautiful, so many colors and patterns...

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  General Comment:I just want to melt into this song..

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  General Comment:haha, sweater_poorly_knit, yes. and this is an extremely sexy song. I don't think the lyrics are about sex, but they should be.

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  General Comment:WHATWHATWHAT! DMT entities, no?

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  General Comment:To: Sweater Poorly Knit (MWY!<3)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I strongly agree.

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  General Comment:it's "move my hands as i please"

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  General Comment:It isn't "as i bleed out." It's "do as i please." The line is "my hands just do as i please" or something like that.
  
  That said, I think this song is about tripping on morning glory seeds. The feel of the song matches up with the feeling of morning glories, and the line "my mind is all gone" is an obvious tip to some kind of mind-altering drug.
  
  The main reason I think it's about morning glories is that a very common way to ingest morning glory seeds is ground up in some kind of beverage ("drowning" the seeds) The line "this should never drown the seeds" is, I think, a reference to how unpleasant such morning glory concoctions are to drink.
  
  The song also has many references to resting, being lazy, etc. Morning glories have a strong depressant effect, making you feel like lying down in one place for a long time. The sensations associated with moving your body also become very distorted, which may explain the multiple references to hands, feet, "i feel my body moving", etc.
  
  I don't think this is the "meaning" of the song really, I just think that the imagery in this song was heavily influenced by the morning glory experience. For the actual "meaning" of the song, I like minus_the_herd's interpretation.

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    whoops. i meant to rate this comment down instead of up! i think you're one of those people who thinks that any song that has too much imagery in it and that they can't figure out is automatically about drugs. boooo on you.

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  General Comment:a beautiful song about being overwhelmed and burned out and still walking around performing daily routines automatically, when you're not really all there...

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  General Comment:does anyone else think that John Gourley has like the sexiest most seductive voice ever?
  because I do...
  
  
  
  
  
  As I feel my body moving and feel these feet a
  moving

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    I literally just read that first sentence and was like "I think that too!" and then realized I was agreeing with my-2008-self

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    I literally just read that first sentence and was like "I think that too!" and then realized I was agreeing with my-2008-self

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