Echo & The Bunnymen - All In Your Mind

This excellent diatribe from Echo & The Bunnymen's 1987 self-titled classic covers a lot of ground. Not only does it decry the actual reasons behind organized religion- i.e. financial gain for those in charge. But, it also bears personal testimony from the song's protagonist about the ineffectualness of prayer. A song like this shouldn't be any surprise to those who actually listened to what Ian McCulloch was singing on earlier Bunnymen albums like "Heaven Up Here" and "Porcupine". Freethinking and anti-theism have been strong themes running through many of their songs, but this is definitely the most overt.

All In Your Mind by Echo & The Bunnymen You say you're proud to be One of the people Hands on the money And your feet on the ground Shouting out loud From the top of the steeple Counting the flock while Collecting their pounds All you theiving wheeler dealers In the healing zone Giving me fever fever fever fever Down to my bones I pray and nothing happens Jesus it's all in my mind You say stop looking for answers and reasons they're all in your mind all in you mind Covered in flies and smothered in lava I can't scratch my itches with these pumise stone hands I dream of my days as a desert farmer living my life On the fat of the sand All you theiving wheeler dealers in the healing zone giving me Fever Fever Fever Fever down to my bones I pray and nothing happens Jesus it's all in my mind you say Stop looking for answers and reasons they're all in your mind all in your mind Stuck in a world losing its way and wonder I wonder what happened to the world we knew Splitting the atom and feeling its thunder Could never ever make me Feel the way you do You give me Fever Fever Fever Fever down to my bones Fever Fever Fever Fever in the healing zone I pray and nothing happens Jesus it's all in my mind You say Stop looking for answers and reasons they're all in your mind all in your mind