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Date: 2012

"Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I -- / I've got a war in my mind"

— Lana Del Rey [Elizabeth Woolridge Grant] (b. June 21, 1985)

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Date: 2012

"Serpents in my mind / Looking for your crimes."

— Sharon Van Etten (b. February 26, 1981)

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Date: 2015 [debuted June 27, 2014, released as a single in February 19, 2015]

"And all those things I didn't say / Wrecking balls inside my brain."

— Platten, Rachel (b. 1981)

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Date: November 18, 2015

"Can't stop thinkin' of your diamond mind."

— Billie Eilish (b. December 18, 2001)

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Date: 2017

Can I let go, and let your memory dance / In the ballroom of my mind, / Across the county line?"

— Lana Del Rey [Elizabeth Woolridge Grant] (b. June 21, 1985)

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Date: 2017

"And my brain is like an orchestra / Playing on, insane"

— Lenker, Adrianne

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Date: 2017

"And my heart is playing hide and seek / Wait and count to four."

— Lenker, Adrianne

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Date: 2017

"Your hands were making artifacts in the corner of my mind."

— Lenker, Adrianne

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Date: 2017

"Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind."

— Lana Del Rey [Elizabeth Woolridge Grant] (b. June 21, 1985)

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Date: May 18, 2017

"Ooh, you're taking up a fraction of my mind."

— Selena Gomez (b. 1992)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.