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My Racing Thoughts Lyrics
She's a black cat
hanging 'round my doorstep
I'll need all day tomorrow
to recover from today
I was boxing with my shadow
At a stoplight when the clocks changed
It was midnight I was mixed up
When she called to drag the lake
I think I'm running short on inspiration
She's running long on borrowed time
We break with speed
That girl can read my racing thoughts
She asks the questions
I take the floor
She takes her shots
Taught her a lesson
About a forced confession
We break with speed
That girls can read my racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
So I'll try to keep her steady now
But steady's not her strong suit
I was raised going to church
But couldn't practice what they preached
So I'm hiring a DJ
For the eve of our destruction
It was midnight I was mixed up
When she found me on the beach
I think I'm running low on inspiration
She's running long on borrowed time
We break with speed
That girl can read my racing thoughts
She asks the questions
I take the floor
She takes her shots
Taught her a lesson
About a forced confession
We break with speed
That girls can read my racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
hanging 'round my doorstep
I'll need all day tomorrow
to recover from today
I was boxing with my shadow
At a stoplight when the clocks changed
It was midnight I was mixed up
When she called to drag the lake
I think I'm running short on inspiration
She's running long on borrowed time
That girl can read my racing thoughts
She asks the questions
I take the floor
She takes her shots
Taught her a lesson
About a forced confession
We break with speed
That girls can read my racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
But steady's not her strong suit
I was raised going to church
But couldn't practice what they preached
So I'm hiring a DJ
For the eve of our destruction
It was midnight I was mixed up
When she found me on the beach
She's running long on borrowed time
That girl can read my racing thoughts
She asks the questions
I take the floor
She takes her shots
Taught her a lesson
About a forced confession
We break with speed
That girls can read my racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
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I love this! I've really missed Jack's Mannequin.
Jack's Mannequin could not have come out with a more fitting song for what I'm going through right now.
"I think I'm running low on inspiration / She's running long on borrowed time"
He's about to give up waiting for her to make up her mind...
Perhaps she made up her mind but you just refuse to hear her :) It's a thought. I just love songs about pussy cats, don't you :D
Perhaps she made up her mind but you just refuse to hear her :) It's a thought. I just love songs about pussy cats, don't you :D
It was this song which led to the theme running throughout the record. Said McMahon: "Marriage is a bit of a beast to tackle in a pop record but when I wrote 'My Racing Thoughts,' it became clear how powerful and loaded a subject this kind of love is and somewhere in that moment I began to lock into the broad concept for the writing sessions to come."
Alternative rock band Jack's Mannequin's third studio album, People and Things is considered by frontman Andrew McMahon to be a "relationship record." He explained: "My goal with many of the songs was to strip away the flowery language and sentiment attached to newer love and replace it with starker, less blinded language about more binding love. In the time following the last Jack's album the people in my world were moving in together, getting married, trying to find 'real jobs' and reconciling new lives that looked a lot less like youth than some of us cared for."
Beautiful analogy by one of the deeper songwriters around there. Comparing a fight in a relationship/marriage to the start of a car race, and then realizing that the person on the other end is the one person who really understands how you work.
It's really amazing how Andy continues to mature and evolve as a songwriter from Something Corporate to surviving leukemia, and incorporating new themes from adult life into his songs.