Paranoia

Songs that display paranoia in a character or thoughts of irrational fear and suspicion.

• Bastard Wants To Hit Me
• Best Regrets - "Without the mission or suspicion"
• Cage & Aquarium - "Somebody's reading your mind / Damned if you know who it is"
• The Cap'm
• Cloisonné - The narrator exhorts a talking raindrop to "Keep your voice down"
• Complete Paranoia
• Finished With Lies
• Gazing Out Toward - "Quit looking at me" is played backwards, at increasingly frantic tempos
• Gudetama's Busy Days - "Though you need some brand new people / You don't trust the lot of them"
• Hall Of Heads
• HAEC QVOQVE EST RES
• Helicopters Of Elves
• Hide Away Folk Family - "Or else someone's gonna get ya / someone's gonna get ya"
• I Am Alone
• I Can't Hide From My Mind - "I can't hide from my mind / though I try, try, try"
• I Haven't Been Right Yet - "What's she doing? Who's that guy she's with?"
• I Lost Thursday - "Now I suspect foul play"
• I Should Be Allowed To Think - "I was the worst hope of my generation / destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical"
• I'm All You Can Think About
• I'm Sick (Of This American Life) - "Got alarms set all around / In case they move around"
• I've Been Seeing Things
• Less Than One - The entire song reeks of paranoia, but in particular the following verse stands out: "Less than one of the seven ideas I had / Might be something I don't later regret"
• Mountain Flowers
• Oregon - "Oregon is bad... Run away / Run away"
• Pittsburgh - "He's somewhere watching us through eyeholes in the walls / Mr. Smalls Theatre / partly hoping, partly scared"
• Prevenge - "Read my mind, yes / I'm planning prevenge"
• The Shadow Government - "Looked in the sky / Saw with my eye / The moon was following me"
• The Sun Is On Fire
• To A Forest - "There are forces out to destroy us"
• What Is Everyone Staring At? - "Is there something wrong with us? What is everyone staring at?"
• Where Your Eyes Don't Go
• Which Describes How You're Feeling- "In his mind he can find how you're feeling all the time"