'Where is my mind?' Lyric analysis

Oh - stop

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rocks
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me, to me, to me.

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

Oh
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Oh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Oh
Oh

 

 

Analysis:

The song lyrics preclude disjuncture and allow for it. This is because they are not based around a set storyline or theme. The idea that this lyricist is ‘losing their mind’ is something we are going to use as a basis for the shoot. We are going to use a literal interpretation of the lyric ‘With your feet on the air and your head on the ground’, as it gives us the opportunity to make the actor appear deluded and aloof. Not only this but we are going to use a match trick in reverse to make it appear as though the character is catching the match and putting it out. This will be an extra editing technique to illustrate flair.

 

For the lyric ‘Your head will collapse’ our original plan is to get a balloon and dress it as the head of the character giving us the chance to do a graphic match with the balloon and the actors head. The balloon will then burst acting as disjuncture representing the actor. Which will then go into the songs chorus with the picture distorted around the lyrics of ‘Where is my mind?’ For the different shots on this we will incorporate graphic matches .