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2	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Love is the answer and you know that for sure/Love is a flower, you got to let it grow..."'']]
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4	''Mind Games'' is the seventh studio album by Music/JohnLennon, released in 1973 through Apple Records. It is best known for the title track. The album mostly deals with his temporary separation from Music/YokoOno and was criticised at the time of its release for being direction-less.
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7	!! Tracklist:
8	[[AC: Side One]]
9	# "Mind Games" (4:13)
10	# "Tight A$" (3:37)
11	# "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" (4:44)
12	# "One Day (At A Time)" (3:09)
13	# "Bring On The Lucie (Freeda Peeple)" (4:12)
14	# "Nutopian International Anthem" (0:03)
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16	[[AC: Side Two]]
17	[numlist:7]
18	# "Intuition" (3:08)
19	# "Out The Blue" (3:23)
20	# "Only People" (3:23)
21	# "I Know (I Know)" (3:49)
22	# "You Are Here" (4:08)
23	# "Meat City" (2:45)
24	[/numlist]
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26	!! Mind Tropes:
27	* ApologyGift: Lennon apologizes to Music/YokoOno in the form of a song "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)"
28	* AlbumFiller: The common complaint about several of the songs. Even Lennon admitted that he wrote some of the songs without knowing what direction to send them in: "I Know (I Know)", "Tight A$" and "Only People". The track "Nutopian International Anthem" is even nothing but three seconds of silence.
29	* BigAppleSauce and BigRottenApple: "Meat City" is about Lennon's mixed feelings about UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, after he moved there.
30	* BreakUpSong: "Out The Blue" dealt with Lennon's temporary broken off relationshipwith Yoko.
31	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Lennon standing in a field, with Yoko's profile at the horizon, symbolizing their relationship.
32	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "Mind Games"
33	--> ''Some call it magic: the search for the grail''
34	* ForeignLanguageTitle: "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" takes its name from a Japanese form of apologizing, tying in with the song's nature as Lennon's olive branch to Yoko Ono during their temporary divorce. "Aisumasen" is specifically a corrupted version of "aisumimasen" in Japanese, which means "I'm sorry" (though it's actually a very casual way of apologizing to someone, akin to "excuse me").
35	* TheFutureWillBeBetter: "Mind Games"
36	--> ''Faith in the future/ out of the now''.
37	* GratuitousJapanese: In addition to the ForeignLanguageTitle and title lyric, "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" features the line "When I'm down real sanpaku" at the start of verse three. "Sanpaku" refers to the lower sclerae, with the visibility of them being commonly associated with evilness in Japanese culture.
38	* InTheStyleOf: "Tight A$" is a {{Rockabilly}} song.
39	* IJustWantToBeFree: "Bring on the Lucie (Freeda Peeple)" is a global call to free the people.
40	* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: "Mind Games".
41	-->''You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas\
42	Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind\
43	Yeah we're playing those mind games together\
44	Projecting our images in space and in time''
45	* OneWordTitle: "Intuition".
46	* ProtestSong: "Bring on the Lucie (Freeda Peeple)", "Nutopian International Anthem".
47	* ThePowerOfLove:
48	** "Mind Games"
49	--> ''Love is the answer and you know that for sure.''
50	** "One Day (At A Time)"
51	** "Out The Blue": In which John sings about his love for Yoko after being separated for a while.
52	* ProtestSong: "Bring on the Lucie (Freeda Peeple)", a protest song advocating freedom.
53	* PunBasedTitle:
54	** "Tight A$".
55	** "Bring On The Lucie (Freeda Peeple)", which turns "free the people" into a woman's name.
56	* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
57	** "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" and "Out The Blue" were both written with Music/YokoOno in mind, as they were separated for a while.
58	** "You Are Here" was inspired by a Lennon one-off art exhibition.
59	* ShoutOut: "Mind Games" is a shout-out to "Mind Games: The Guide To Inner Space" (1972) by Robert Masters and Jean Houston. The line "Yes is the answer" is a nod to the art piece by Yoko Ono that brought her and John together.
60	* TitleTrack:
61	--> ''We're playing those mind games together''.

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