Songfacts®:

• Vashti Bunyan tries to makes sense of unrequited love in this '60s folk-pop number, where she laments of her commitment-phobic beau, "You see the end before the beginning has begun."
  
  Bunyan told the Songfacts Podcast the song was inspired by a period of frustration in her romantic life. She explained: "It was frustration with somebody who just wasn't going to take any risks: 'You see the end before the beginning has ever begun.' This is about a real person who would not take any risks with commitment - I suppose in today's language, it would be that he was a commitment-phobe."
  
  In retrospect, Bunyan takes responsibility for her part in the non-relationship. She continued: "For me, it was frustrating 'cause I thought we could be so great and he just wasn't having it at all. He wanted to be solitary, poor guy. Why couldn't I just leave him alone?"
• Bunyan's music career started in the mid-'60s when a family acquaintance introduced her to Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones manager and producer, who gave her the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards-penned "Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind" as her first single. But Bunyan was intent on writing her own songs, so Oldham assigned her a creative challenge to get the sound he wanted. She recalled in her autobiography, Wayward: Just Another Life To Live:
  
  "At one time Andrew had put me in a room in the office with a record player, a piano and three albums - Tim Hardin, the Mamas & the Papas and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, with instruction to write something 'in between all of them.' I don't play the piano. I escaped, taking the records with me. I kept them. And I wrote 'I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind.'"
• This was supposed to be released as a single via Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records, but it was shelved when Bunyan, discouraged by the failure of her first single, left the producer for not-so-greener pastures in 1966. She issued "Train Song" with Canadian producer Peter Snell that spring, but it went nowhere.
  
  Years later, long after she'd given up her music career, a 1967 recording of "I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind" showed up on the 1990 compilation Circus Days - UK Psychedelic Obscurities 1966–70 Vol.1. Throughout the decade, interest in her music started to grow, which prompted a reissue of her little-known 1970 debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 2000.
• The English rock band Lush recorded this in 1996 after hearing it on the Circus Days compilation.
• This was used in the 2022 movie The Greatest Beer Run Ever, starring Zac Efron as a booze-toting New Yorker on a personal mission to Vietnam in 1967. It was also used on the TV series Vice Principals in the 2017 episode "The King."