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Songs about someone or something controlling, reading, or changing someone else's mind.

Central theme[edit]

• 25 O'Clock - "My spell of hours will make you fall"
• The Bells Are Ringing - "and everyone's walking with arms extended in a trance"
• Brainwashing Our Fighting Boys
• Cage & Aquarium - "Somebody's reading your mind"
• Confusing The Mind
• Decision Makers
• Dirt Bike - "Mind-bending dirt bike in control"
• Finished With Lies
• Hypnotist Of Ladies
• I Can't Hide From My Mind - The narrator's omniscient mind has total control over the narrator.
• I Should Be Allowed To Think - The narrator thinks he's not allowed to think.
• I'm All You Can Think About
• Lie Still, Little Bottle - "With every move you make you just disintegrate my ever-troubled mind"
• Prevenge - "Read my mind, yes, I'm planning prevenge"
• Prisoners Of Graphic Design - "Our message is under your mind"
• Sleepwalkers
• Subliminal
• The Songs Of The 50 States - "Of men who are controlling my mind"
• Spiraling Shape
• The Statue Got Me High
• Whistling In The Dark - "I'd like to poison/change your mind"
• Youth Culture Killed My Dog - "But the hiphop and the white funk just blew away my puppy's mind"

Briefly mentioned[edit]

• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "She amputated my resistance with her mind warp"
• Apophenia - "Picture of a hunched old lady holding a dog and / Telling you what to do / Seemingly random arrangement of turbid material / Telling you what to do"
• Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "dread hypnotic flying", "hypnotizing tractor beam"
• Burnice - "Some say your mind's been transplanted"
• Cyclops Rock - "And mess up my Cyclops mind"
• The Darlings Of Lumberland - "Drag you by the mind, now you're under their command"
• Flo Wheeler - "Orange barrels put me in a trance"
• Gigantor Intro - "He's at your command"
• The Glamour Of Rock - "Hypnotized by the cave of clothing"
• Hodgman Promo 3 - "a Portuguese hypnotist"
• I Need Some Lovin' - "The radios that tune in to read my mind"
• Lake Monsters - "No hypnosis like a mass hypnosis, Cause a mass hypnosis isn't happenin'"
• Moonbeam Rays - "Half asleep and brainwashed / Like shaking off a curse"
• Mr. Tambourine Man - "Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship / My senses have been stripped", "Cast your dancing spell my way / I promise to go under it"
• Narrow Your Eyes - "I don't want to change your mind"
• No Cops - "Just listen and comply"
• Ooh La! Ooh La! - "Music takes your mind into a trance"
• Piece Of Dirt - "A woman's voice on the radio can convince you you're in love/A woman's voice on the telephone can convince you you're alone"; "I find myself haunted by a spooky man named me"
• Prevenge - "Read my mind"
• Quit The Circus - "You hijack my thoughts, Every single night"
• Reprehensible - "A voice is speaking...I can't ignore it/Although I try/The intrusive whisper fascinates me"
• She's Actual Size - "I thought I was big once; she changed my mind"
• So Long, Mockingbird - "I can read your mind"
• Tractor - "Shooting mesmeric glances"
• Unctuous Robot - "Inside me there's a smaller man at the controls"
• Unpronounceable - "Stare at the static long enough / You’ll be hypnotized / Be hypnotized"
• Vote Or Don't - "Vote, although there's something I could tell you / You might vote for someone else, and I might want to change your mind"
• You Don't Like Me - "I know what you're thinking / I can read your mind"

See also[edit]

• Lies, Deception