It's All In My Head - Lyrics Blog

Hey Sexies,
So I thought I'd break down the meaning behind the lyrics to our 10th single of the decade "It's All In My Head." It's really about the fear we create in our own heads, but read on for a line-by-line analysis.


It's All In My Head
(The Deacon)
© 2010

I'm feeling empty inside
inside my head
His mind is numb, no happiness, no fun…

My heart feels like there's a void
but I'm not dead
If there were a physical hole in his heart, he'd cease to exist in his physical body. Yet, we're full of spiritual holes and emotional holes and are still kicking around. Each of the 3 realms follow different rules, yet all 3 are affected by the others.

Fifteen-hundred miles in
Animal skin
Fifteen-hundred miles in
Original sin
Traveling deep within the mind, we find we're simply animals. And in that same space, we're uniquely human; able to create our own fate – for good or bad.

It's all in my head
Ultimately, we are the creators of our fears.

I place the blame upon you
sho' 'nuf not me
He blame's everyone else for his problems and refuses to take responsibility for his own actions.

We'll have a drink on the floor
then I must be
He can still hang out with his friends and pretend everything is all right. Until...

Traveling down that blood road
I use to heal
Traveling down that blood road
It's how I feel
He's back in his own negative space because it feels comforting.

It's all in my head
Most of our fears aren't based in reality; we conjure up our own demons.

I walk alone in the crowd
and they don't see
how really scared I'm am
but that can't be
He pretends to be confident and really believes that no one see through his façade.

Black hole sucking me in
event horizon
Black hole sucking me in
I'll dive right in
This is a metaphor for what happens in your own mind, there's a different perception from different angles.

(Geek alert: if you're not into science, just skip this…)

There is a debate about the properties of black holes amongst the world's two thought leaders in physics: Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind. I'm not taking sides on this one, but I'm using Susskind's perception as the metaphor. He believes that at the event horizon (the edge of a black hole) two, separate, events happen simultaneously depending on your vantage point. The first event being if you were looking from outside of the black hole, you would see a person for example freeze at the event horizon. The second event being if you were looking at the person from the event horizon, that person would seem like they were falling into the black hole. It's a theory, we don't know if it's true or not.


It's all in my head