Mind Games

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Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	"Love is the answer" cries John Lennon in this song. Every music critic I have ever read sees this line as a quaint anachronism, a feeble cry in the dark during the decade when a hopeful "flower power" era gives way to the nihilism of punk rock and disco. And I agree; this song strikes me very poignantly as John's last gasp of idealism against the tidal wave of the "mind guerrillas". For that reason, this song symbolizes for me the sad announcement of that transision in our culture.	Bruce Beatlefan	May 20, 2006

Lyrics

We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic the search for the grail

Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower you got to let it grow

So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future out of the now
You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Yeah we're playing those mind games together
Projecting our images in space and in time

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender you got to let it go

So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind games together
Raising the spirit of peace and love
(I want you to make love, not war
I know you've heard it before)

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