Where Is My Mind?

Where Is My Mind? by Pixies



When I broke up with my first love it was a Saturday night. Nothing really seemed real for the next week or so. I don't really remember anything. It was early April, I went to work, I came home, I don't remember talking or anything... all I remember is listening to this song over and over and over and over again on my walk home from work. My entire life had changed... like that... just by breaking up with a girl.

Sure we had dated for two and a half years and a routine is formed during such a long time... and that was gone. And with the end of the routine I sort of thought I was losing my mind. Only I knew I wasn't losing my mind... it's just when you're completely and totally numb to the world, well, you sort of feel like you SHOULD be losing your mind. To me it felt natural to be listening to this song. I kept asking... "where is my mind?" What else should I be asking? What else should I be listening to? So as "Misunderstood" became my break up song with The Lou, "Where is My Mind?" because my breakup song for EBS.

The interesting thing about the breakup song is that, well, it doesn't work for anyone else ever again. For example, I tried to listen to "Where is my Mind?" when the Lou and I called it quits, but it didn't work. It didn't fit. The song was for EBS and only our break up. The same holds true for "Misunderstood". That's for the Lou and only for me getting over the Lou. It can't be applied to or for anyone else.

The song is also the closing song to the "hasn't aged very well and it hasn't even been ten years" "Fight Club". One of the better closing songs to a movie that pops into my head...