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title: "My Mind Is Slowly Slipping"

meaning: "Pandemic dissociation with Babidi: WFH fun while family hurts, Kafka skies and mask police: gently forgetting, quarantine and chill, mind slowly slipping."

year: 2020
release: "Masks and Monsters"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

coWriters: ["J MESA"]
credits: "Written by Luke Francis Walton and J MESA (Taylor James / Babidi). Performed by Scoobert Doobert with Babidi. Mixed and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/13zzM1QEnrvJ7kRwUGNIFw"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw-J_GT0doo"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw-J_GT0doo"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/my-mind-is-slowly-slipping-feat-babidi/1526427944?i=1526428031"

themes: ["pandemic", "dissociation", "Masks and Monsters", "Babidi", "guilt", "lockdown"]

isrc: QZK6P2060455
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Dirty in the furnace
  I'm tryna keep all the bugs out
  Not sure where you hear it first
  But now all the people scream and shout

  Trees feeling deserted
  With the Kafka skies as a nuclear blow
  Who's here to report this
  Cause the virus spreads
  But I'm acting slow

  I get the feeling that I'm
  Just just having fun
  Getting to work from home but
  My brother's hurting some
  The kinda feeling that
  I wish that this wasn't true
  But when I look at you
  I wonder what's next to come

  My mind is slowly slipping
  Deeper since the beginning
  Nothing else to do
  But chill
  And gently forgetting

  My mind is slowly slipping
  My mind is slowly slipping
  Nothing else to do
  But chill
  And gently forgetting
  And gently forgetting

  Vibing with the window
  Open
  Fresh air is rushing in
  Pixels, letters
  Make you think outside's a sin

  Masks are the normal
  Cause if you don't I strike you down
  Couples and friends are judged
  Just for hanging out

  Wait a minute

  I get the feeling that I'm
  Just just having fun
  Getting to work from home but
  My mother's hurting some
  The kinda feeling where
  I wish that this wasn't true
  But when I look at you
  I wonder what's next to come

  My mind is slowly slipping
  Deeper since the beginning
  Nothing else to do
  But chill
  And gently forgetting

  My mind is slowly slipping
  My mind is slowly slipping
  Nothing else to do
  But chill
  And gently forgetting

  Oh dear
  This is the end
  What nonsense, darling
  (Gently forgetting)
  Don't forget
  All the lovely things we plan to do today
  (Quarantine and chill)

  My mind is slowly slipping
  Deeper since the beginning
  Nothing else to do
  But chill
  And gently forgetting

  My mind is slowly slipping
  My mind is slowly slipping
  My mind is slowly slipping
  My mind is slowly slipping

  All the lovely things we plan to do today

  Both hands towards the ceiling
  If you're both asked to stay home
  Tryna protect our cities
  But some don't do well alone

  My mind is slowly slipping
  Deeper since the beginning
  Nothing else to do
  But chill
  And gently forgetting

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Track ten on [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/), **feat. Babidi** (**Taylor James / J MESA**). Co-written and performed with Luke Francis Walton; North Park lockdown, **August 2020**. The [album essay](/albums/masks-and-monsters/) names it alongside *It Can Get Worse* and *Corona* in the LP's direct emotional center: pandemic psychology with a collaborator, not cartoon filler.

The whole song runs on guilt. *Getting to work from home but my brother's hurting some*, and on the second pass it's *my mother's hurting some*: the same sentence reopened on a different wound, WFH ease against family suffering. The chorus turns dissociation into a lullaby (*nothing else to do but chill / and gently forgetting*), and the spoken break folds in track nine, [*Quarantine and Chill*](/songs/quarantine-and-chill/), pulling its domestic-plans script into the collapse.

Babidi's second co-write here, heavier than that phone-call love song but sharing its *chill* vocabulary. Pairs with [*A Good Life*](/songs/a-good-life/) and [*Pandemic Blues*](/songs/pandemic-blues/) as the record's unraveling thread.

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