It's All in Your Mind

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"It's All In Your Mind"

Single by Beck
Released	1995
Recorded	Various
Genre	Alternative Rock
Label	K Records
Producer(s)	Beck Hansen
Beck singles chronology
Steve Threw Up (1994)	It's All In Your Mind (1995)	Caspar and Mollusk (1995)

"It's All In Your Mind" is the seventh track on Beck's 2002 album, Sea Change. It is perhaps one of the simplest songs on the album lyrically; many phrases are repeated, with 'I wanted to be' iterated nine times. It describes the shock of discovering a darker side of an admired acquaintance. Beck attempts at first to dismiss this discovery as an illusion, and later becomes distraught when it seems that his reaction has destroyed the chance for true friendship. He laments, "I wanted to be a good friend."

"It's all in your mind" has a quite unusual history. The only song on Sea Change not to have been written following his break-up with Leigh Limon, the song was recorded originally in mid-1993 for Beck's 1994 album, One Foot In The Grave, but Beck rejected it. Instead, he released it in 1995 on it own single, along with Whiskey Can-Can and Feather in your cap, both of which were also One Foot out-takes. It was released again, this time in a live version from The Bridge School Concert of October 28, 1995.

"It's all in your mind" featured prominently in concerts between the years of 1994 and 1995, but largely disappeared until Beck rediscovered the song, in 2002, while recording Sea Change. Nigel Godrich and Beck were both impressed enough with the old song to put it on the album. Unlike many of Beck's songs, the lyrics to It's all in your mind have stayed the same through time. However, Beck replaced the two-chord strumming of the 1993 song with a more intricate finger-picking.

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