It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
When it comes
It comes abrupt

When it feels, it feels like trading brains with an imbecil, for real
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
And not buying philosophies that are sold to me at a steal

Just when you thought it was safe to think
In comes mental piracy
What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying
?Cause what I want and what I need
Is and always will be free

It's comin' around again
They're letting it out again, again
It's comin' around again
When it comes
It comes unannounced

And it feels like a matador is taunting me
With his reddest red cloth and I am the bull
Yes I feel empathetic about not being static
And not eating the bullshit that's being fed to me no more
?Cause now I'm full

Just when you thought it was safe to think
In comes mental piracy
What I ?m looking for cannot be sold to me
I wish they all would stop trying
?Cause what I want and what I need
Is and will always be free



Lyrics submitted by Idan

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"When It Comes" as written by Brandon Charles/einziger Boyd, Alex/pasillas Katunich

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    General Comment:I think this song is about lust.
    Flag edcbaon February 22, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This song isn't about drugs. It's about noncomformity, a lot of incubus songs are about noncomformity. Many people that do drugs tend to think all songs are about drugs haha. Think about the metaphors he uses.
    "And it feels like a matador is taunting me with his reddest red cloth and I am the bull"...
    The bull is powerless to resist the red cloth, and the matador has complete control over the bull, the bull is his puppet. Much like how television has complete control over our minds. Tells us what to do, how to be, what to buy. Incubus is trying to explain that we are all sheep to this societal conformity. That the real important things in life are not found on television, magazines, and department stores. In their album Science, they have a song called "Idiot Box". All about how television is like a religion, even uses a metaphor of comparring TV to God. Most of us are powerless against the power of comformity, because we all have the basic need to feel a sense of belonging. That usually means doing what's expected of you, and TV and media is our "bible" telling us how to do that. I feel Incubus is expressing frustration and resistance to that "sheep" like behavior. To understand Incubus, I think you have to have similar feelings about things as he expresses in his songs. I have, and that is what drew me to their music.
    Flagged triphip2on January 24, 2012   Link
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    Lyric Correction:empathetic=emphatic. just sayin. it totally changes the meaning.

    Flag tripnbillieon September 29, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I feel like the song is about all the negative thoughts, the ones that drag him down. They're usually placed there by someone else, and it makes sense, but what he needs to do, what he's starting to realize, is that he needs to find his own answers. That's the only way he can be happy and make himself.
    Flag LonelyMarineron March 29, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:One of my fav's. My thought is its about not letting marketing & propaganda make choices for you. Its about making your own choices and how all the ads & influences of modern-day culture can really affect your decision-making. Its about finding what you really need.

    You have to be smart to see through it all and be able to decide for yourself what is right in any given situation. IMHO.

    Say what you will about Brandon Boyd, he def gets a bad rap... He's def an intelligent dude. Good stuff.
    Flag Johann4uon March 27, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Great, great song. Incubus is the best - so introspective & the lyrics really make you think. Love it.
    Flag amy422on November 06, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

    anti-conformity is just doing the opposite of everyone else without thinking about it and is just as mindless as conformity.
    nonconformity is the word you are looking for but i think it should be aconformity, just like moral, immoral, then amoral.

    With that being said...

    I saw something on TV that blamed Barack Obama and Barack Obama alone for rising gas prices. I then realized exactly what mental piracy was.
    Flag yatusabes21on July 23, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:It's comin' around again
    they're letting it out again, again.
    It's comin' around again
    they're letting it out again, again.
    When it comes,
    it comes abrupt.
    When it feels, it feels like trading brains with an imbecile... for real.

    I don't know what to make of this beggining part of the song. Like what exactly is coming around again?
    Otherwise I would say the song is about the condition of a person struggling to hold on to their own thoughts and sticking with how they feel instead of letting others opinions/philosophies/religions and general thoughts become their own or "pirate" their mind, as in brainwash them and thus discouraging that person into not being able to feel and taste a reality that everyone wants a piece of.
    Flag Daviiid.Antonieeon February 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i was just wonderin why Incubus didnt entitle this song "mental piracy" because at first i thought that was d title of d song.....
    Flag litterboxon December 13, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:"just when you thought it was safe to think! in comes mental piracy!" i compare it to the whole 'evolution vs. creation' argument.

    "clearly" is a word that we should try not to use here.
    Flag coldpizzaon April 30, 2007   Link

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