Crucify Your Mind

Rodriquez is an anomaly among musicians. He is uncorrupted my money and fame and stayed true to his roots throughout his career. He led a simple life and had lots of time to reflect on life and write music. He was university educated in Philosophy - how often does that happen with a musician? He lived his whole life in a low income neighborhood of Detroit and witnessed the best and worst of life, first hand, everyday. His songs and the music are short and simple.

Maybe this song is about drugs. But I think it is simply about the tragedy of female and male interactions.

Caused by the Darwinian programming of the sexes if you will. The strongest and most female savvy males (the huntsmen and players in our modern society) are to be with the females. The females will instinctively only submit to the strongest and most attractive males. The female has a hard time being fulfilled by a lesser male so she continuously submits to these "Alpha" males. She hates herself for this and is sad because she never has a long term relationship. But she hopes for a long term relationship with one of these males and tries to sell herself (I am unique) (I have special secrets), but she is not unique and has no secrets, she tells every sexual partner the same lines and the huntsman and player know this well and would not care anyway. They cannot care as they were born to be with many women.

What inspired Rodriquez to write this song?

Possibly Rodriquez wrote this song as a response to his own failed relationships with this type of woman or possibly he lamented the wide spread symptoms of this cause of societal break down in the area of Detroit where he lived.

Very intense song that has elements of an reoccurring pattern that he finally puts a stop to. The reoccurring pattern (and irony actually) is that the lady he is finally leaving was probably an adventure seeker, or player herself prior to him meeting her. And he asks her if it was one of those shallow types (without much substance or character) that burned her before meeting him, and that made herself unattractive through her own narcassism. He leaves her and points out to her that she just chasing shadows in her love quests..and that she is made up of nothingess. The part that Crucifies her Mind is that he is going to leave her too. But he's leaving becasue he is too decent a man to want to be with her, not becasue is a heartless narcassist. His decency of character if and when she deos reflect is what crucifies her mind..and when she sees the truth.

Dear people I think we all miss the point . To understand All Rodriguez “messages”. Its crucial not to think linear ! Crucify your mind is about all of us about complete human race to pull out our original consience not one contaminated with modern technology . For example “prostitutes your loss” Doesn’t have absolutely nothing with Mans love life or lost , its about all of ours ego , or to bring it closer i will just link you with Exupery and his “ Little Prince” :” man , bevare how you walk under the stars”

Thank you for your time and you can thank me for mine , after that sad , forget it ... Bag it ..

In the end we know who “him” is .. It can be “her” aswell as “mother” of all of us by Kogi ( and for you who Listen you know that he knows Kogis secrets aswell..)