"Giving Away Their Minds" genre: Rock
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	Steady driving rock song with vocal
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	Story Behind the Song This song was built on that first riff which I was playing with on my 12-string. The title came from an idea from author David Icke, where he contends that people have given their power away to those that rule and control, by giving away their minds. This fits in with an earlier concept I had that we are not as self dependent as we could or should be. We depend on the doctor to heal us, the preacher to get us into heaven, the lawyer to keep us out of trouble, etc. Jesus is credited with saying that the Kingdom of God is within, and for me that is to say that the whole Universe is within each of us. Tap into that inner guidance and we won't be quite so helpless. We simply don't realize it's there, being constantly drawn out through the five senses by those who wish to control. So this song is simply trying to point out these kind of things, in a (as it turned out) rock 'n roll kind of way. Lyrics At the grocery people are Giving away their minds At the drug store people keep giving away their minds I may be wrong, but it seems that certain people want to tell you how to think and to feel. ‘Cause if you ain't into using your mind, you know somebody else will. Every Sunday I see people Giving away their minds In the court house people keep Giving away their minds So people think dictators only happen in a country far away over there, But if they'd open their eyes for a while they'd see a lizard crawling into their hair. In the war zone young people are Giving away their minds In a heartbeat people keep Giving away their minds Maybe it's just been too long, or maybe we've never been there. Lately I've been looking around In the newsroom At the movies At the doctor On the TV On the X-Box, baby, kids are just Giving away their minds Through the senses - that's how they keep Taking away our minds So here's a tip: The center of your Self will never wobble in this insanity; ‘Cause it's a ride of the best kind of thrill, ‘cause it's real and it's you and it's free. To the government people are Giving away their minds All through hist'ry people have Given away their minds To find out when we did lose control, you might have to read it on clay. Sometimes the only way out of a dream is for somebody to say You got to wake up today From our childhood - that's when we start Giving away our minds So to whom then are we just Giving away our minds? To those who want it, that's who. They want your mind..

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