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I Don't Mind Lyrics
My eyes go where I say so, but not always, and not when you walk by.
And my feet move where I tell them to,
but not when they are chasing after you,
and now I just don’t know what I should do
I'm twisted all around like some cartoon
But I don’t mind. No I don’t mind.
Just stay close by, like, all the time.
'Cause either I’d bleed dry or keep this thorn in my side.
But I don’t mind.
On all fours on a hotel floor my
closest hand was halfway round the world.
And my room's key unbeknownst to me,
had cut my eye as I wiped at my face,
while trying to move some heavy stuff away.
Now I'm bleeding in an unfamiliar place.
Guess I don’t mind. No I don’t mind.
As I lay down to sleep the night,
I gave a call to the crisis line, but I don’t mind.
I spun the tucker telephone,
I turned my eyes to bone,
I kept dialing your number,
but you were not at home… you’re not alone!
And now I just don’t know what I should do.
I'm twisted all around like some cartoon.
But I don’t mind. No I don’t mind.
Just stay close by, like, all the time.
'Cause either I'd bleed dry or keep this thorn in my side.
But I don’t mind.
'Cause either I'd bleed dry or keep this thorn in my side.
But I don’t mind.
And my feet move where I tell them to,
but not when they are chasing after you,
and now I just don’t know what I should do
I'm twisted all around like some cartoon
Just stay close by, like, all the time.
'Cause either I’d bleed dry or keep this thorn in my side.
But I don’t mind.
closest hand was halfway round the world.
And my room's key unbeknownst to me,
had cut my eye as I wiped at my face,
while trying to move some heavy stuff away.
Now I'm bleeding in an unfamiliar place.
As I lay down to sleep the night,
I gave a call to the crisis line, but I don’t mind.
I turned my eyes to bone,
I kept dialing your number,
but you were not at home… you’re not alone!
I'm twisted all around like some cartoon.
Just stay close by, like, all the time.
'Cause either I'd bleed dry or keep this thorn in my side.
But I don’t mind.
But I don’t mind.
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A guy has fallen rediculously in love with a woman, but she has rejected him.
Now he's sad and depressed, and whie in his hotel room, he has suicidal thoughts, but calls the crisis hotline anyway.
He tries to call her, and he wants to think she's not home, but still lies the inevitable fact that she is not in love with him.
"'Cause either I'd bleed dry or keep this thorn in my side. But I don’t mind."
He's in a lot of pain, being rejected and all, and it's like having a thorn in his side. He's got two choices, either to not give up on her(keeping the thorn in his side), knowing that she doesn't love him, or giving up on her(taking it out, hence bleeding until he's dried up of all blood), finally accepting that she doesn't love him and moving on, but with this big gaping hole in his soul.
I think I covered it pretty well
Oh, but the end of the song is a segment of something, that's backwards, I THINK, and I dunno, but it spooks me to no end. Like, anything replayed backwards spooks me to no end.
Alex played the song acoustically at a show recently and beforehand he explained that he wrote it following a nervous breakdown overseas while touring with mark ronson.
Well,I remember Alex saying that originally this album was going to be about tortures. This song sounds like it's about a guy who's in love but keeps torturing himself regardless of the internal pain he's feeling. It also sounds like he's beginning to lose his mind. This is evident when he says "I spun the Tucker telephone, I turned my eyes to bone, I kept dialing your number, but you were not at home". A Tucker telephone is a torture device used at the Tucker State Prison Farm, Arkansas, in the 1960s. When they were torturing inmates, they would use telephone euphemisms, such as "long distance call". He is basically torturing himself trying to figure out what to do.
This song is amazing. Though its a rather simple song, there's just something so sad about it. I guess its something that we've all felt at one time or another.