Re: Popular Songs about Mental Illness

[Stuart Vyse]

A song about depression:

Brian Wilson, by Barenaked Ladies. Off the Gordon album.

"I'm lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson did..."

Also includes the following lyrics:

<x-tad-bigger>It's a matter of instinct, It's a matter of conditioning,
It's a matter of fact
You can call me Pavlov's dog
Ring a bell and I'll salivate -- how'd you like that
Dr. Landy tell me you're not just a pedagogue
'Cause right now I'm
Lying in bed....</x-tad-bigger>

I'm assuming Dr. Landy was an intro psych professor, hence just a pedagogue. (When was the last time you saw that word in a song lyric?)

SV

Stuart Vyse
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