My Mind Is for Sale

Album: All the Light Above It Too (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song, packed with sharp lyrics skewering President Trump, was written by Jack Johnson just after he was elected.

    I don't care for your paranoid
    Us against them fearful kind of walls
    I don't care for your careless
    Me first gimme gimme appetite at all


    Johnson sings about Trump trying to put up a border wall in between the US, and Mexico as well as focusing on the immigrant ban that the Leader of the Free World enforced very early in his presidency.
  • Johnson shot the song's anti-Trump lyric video on his iPhone using an animation app. "My kids helped me make it," he told Rolling Stone. "Now their blocks have words written all over them. It was the cheapest video I ever made. $0."

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