Basement Jaxx – Where's Your Head At

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  General Comment:Someone's having a bad trip. They're saying the thing to do is realize it's all in your head, and you shouldn't hold so tightly onto your ego. 'Don't let the walls cave in on you / we can go on without you,' to my mind, means you have to realize that what to you may be a terrifying experience, something that makes you cry out for help, is actually more under your control than you may think. 'You don't make it easy on yourself' is part of the same theme: just let go. And as for 'What you give is what you get,' the same logic applies: the experience you have depends on how you look at it; if you look at the experience through a lens of anxiety and self-concern, worry about losing your ego, then that's exactly what you'll be burdened with. So, check your head. Where's it at? Keep it together.

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  General Comment:I like this band. First heard them while trying on clothing in a mall store w/ my teen. It's a song about independence. And it rules!

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  General Comment:I think it is definitely about drugs, creating a party clubbing atmosphere within the song itself.

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  General Comment:No are you people stupid! This song is about life! It is talking to you. 'Don't let the walls cave in on you' -'we can LIVE ON, LIVE ON without you' 'you get what you give that much is true'. It's talking about letting your mind cave in on itself. Not in a drug and being smashed sense, but more about your spirit.

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  General Comment:According to the lyrics booklet, the correct lyrics are:
  
  Where's your head at
  Don't let the walls cave in on you
  We can live on, live on without you
  
  You get what you give that much is true
  Don't let the walls cave in on you
  You turn the world away from you
  
  You have now found yourself trapped in the incomprehensible maze
  
  Where's your head at, you'll know how to be
  Where's your head at, you don't make it easy on yourself
  Where's your head at, what you give is what you get, is what you get
  
  We can live on, live on without you

  Flag pqhooliganon September 21, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Everytime i hear this song, i am rolling soooooo hard!

  Flag Mike4689on August 28, 2008   Link

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    word up.

    Flag Blizzy461on March 16, 2011  
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  General Comment:The story is that a friend feels like his life is falling apart, like the walls are closing in on him. Instead of dealing with it, he sits around all day getting high on his own ("where's your head at?";"you turned the world away from you"), and the song is his friends saying that they're there for him, and that they don't want to move on and leave him there ("we can't live on without you"). It's a happy song, and you can really hear the love, but it's still open ended.

  Flag DRPISS29on January 20, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:it's definitely "we can't live on, live on without you"

  Flag YourEmoHeroon December 22, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:tranceQueen - considering the most powerful psychedelic drug known to man, DMT, resides inside our own brains as a neuro-transmitter, released when we sleep, and when we die, i think it's safe to say that life itself is 'definitely drug related'
  
  in more standard terms, i don't see this song as drug related. although perhaps drug-inspired. the incomprehensible maze is life. but don't go insane trying to figure it out.
  
  it asks what are we doing with ourselves, with our world?
  
  i think the lyrics posted here are wrong. it always sounds like the lyrics go "we can't LIVE ON, LIVE ON, without you" instead.
  
  i think the music video is intended to be f_cked up, makes you think - what are we doing playing gods?

  Flag hazeuson February 03, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:this song is about being on drugs, most likely ecstacy.
  
  Wheres your head at? ask yourself that after you have popped 5 pills.
  
  You have found yourself
  Trapped in this
  Incomprehensible maze
  Where's your head at?
  
  yep, definetly drug related.

  Flag tranceQueenon December 23, 2006   Link

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