I Don’t Like My Mind is the fourth track on Mitski’s seventh studio album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We. The song deals with themes of regret, and the singer’s attempt to avoid sitting with her own mind, through a cycle of self destructive distractions, that only ever result in more memori...
[Verse 1]
I don't like my mind, I don't like being left alone in a room
With all its opinions about the things that I've done
So, yeah, I blast music loud and I work myself to the bone
And on an inconvenient Christmas, I eat a cake
[Chorus]
A whole cake, all for me
Ooh, oh-oh
[Verse 2]
And then I get sick and throw up and there's another memory that gets stuck
Inside the walls of my skull waiting for its turn to talk
And it may be a few years, but you can bet it's there, waiting still
For me to be left alone in a room with the things that I've done
[Chorus]
A whole cake, so please don't take
Take this job from me
A whole cake, so please don't take
Take my job from me
I Don’t Like My Mind was written by Mitski.
I Don’t Like My Mind was produced by Patrick Hyland.
Mitski released I Don’t Like My Mind on Fri Sep 15 2023.