Sold My Mind to the Kremlin

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They Might Be Giants

2015

Sold My Mind to the Kremlin by They Might Be Giants

Release Date

Mon Jun 01 2015

Performed by

They Might Be Giants

Produced by

Patrick Dillett & They Might Be Giants

Writed by

John Linnell & John Flansburgh

About

This song appears to speak of an American leftist who, unhappy with the direction American culture and politics went in the 1980s, turned his sympathies toward the Soviet Union instead.

Sold My Mind to the Kremlin Lyrics

[Chorus]
With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin
On the Fourth of July

[Verse 1]
I was wearing a Yoda mask
You were talking like Lou Ferrigno
A hat made of paper
A vest made of ugly
An intercom with just one button

[Bridge]
“This bag is almost empty”
That was your sole communication
From unimproved roads
On the Fourth of July

[Verse 2]
Fishing holes don’t exist
And country music with all those lists
Of things from yesterday
You can no longer get

[Verse 3]
Let's talk about Patty Hearst
Skeletor and Charles Manson
Reagan closed the hospitals
For the mentally ill

[Verse 4]
Train stations filled up with the mentally ill
And I’m singing into a tape recorder
Trapped in this thing
That I can’t get away from

[Bridge]
“This bag is almost empty”
That was your sole communication
From unimproved roads
On the Fourth of July

[Chorus]
With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin
On the Fourth of July

[Outro]
With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin
On the Fourth of July

Sold My Mind to the Kremlin Q&A

Who wrote Sold My Mind to the Kremlin's ?

Sold My Mind to the Kremlin was written by John Linnell & John Flansburgh.

Who produced Sold My Mind to the Kremlin's ?

Sold My Mind to the Kremlin was produced by Patrick Dillett & They Might Be Giants.