With some mild success with singles during the mid-late 1960s, Bunyan released the LP, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970. This consisted of songs written while traveling in a horse drawn gypsy cart. Critics panned the album and a discouraged Vashti soon disappeared from the music scene. However, by the 2000s her work had finally been finding an audience among contemporary artists and fans of folk music.
In 2002, she was invited by Piano Magic musician Glen Johnson to sing guest vocals on his song "Crown of the Lost", her first recording in over 30 years. After guesting on Piano Magic's album 'Writers Without Homes', she released her critically-acclaimed second album, Lookaftering, 35 years after its predecessor.
In 2006 she collaborated with Adem and began to tour for the first time, accompanied by various musicians including Jo Mango and Gareth Dickson. She collaborated with Animal Collective on the Prospect Hummer EP. Vashti also sang with Devendra Banhart on his album Rejoicing in the Hands.
Bunyan's cover of the late John Martyn's "Head and Heart" appeared on the 2011 tribute album, Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn.
I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind
Vashti Bunyan Lyrics
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I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me
I'd like to run and jump on your solitude
I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me
You say you just want peace and to never hurt anyone
You see the end before the beginning has ever begun
I would disturb your easy tranquillity
I'd turn away the sad impossibility of your smile
I'd sit there in the sun of the things I like about you
I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you
But most of all I'd like you to be unaware
Then I'd just wander away, trailing palm leaves behind me
So you don't even know I've been there
The song "I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind" by Vashti Bunyan is a poignant depiction of desire. The singer wishes to explore the inner workings of someone else's mind, to delve into their psyche. The opening line, "I'd like to walk around in your mind someday," sets the tone for the rest of the song: a yearning to understand and connect with another person on a deeper level.
The following lines, "I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me," suggest that the singer wants to explore the other person's thoughts and emotions, to understand them fully. The singer goes on to express a desire to disrupt the other person's peace and tranquility, to rearrange their attitude towards her. This lyric suggests that the singer wants to shake things up, to challenge the other person's perspective in order to forge a deeper connection.
Line by Line Meaning
I'd like to walk around in your mind someday
I want to understand your thoughts and feelings by experiencing your perspective firsthand
I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me
I want to examine and challenge the words you use to communicate with me
I'd like to run and jump on your solitude
I want to disrupt the calmness and isolation you find comfort in
I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me
I want to change the way you perceive and interact with me
You say you just want peace and to never hurt anyone
You express a desire for harmony and a reluctance to cause harm
You see the end before the beginning has ever begun
You have a pessimistic outlook and anticipate negative outcomes
I would disturb your easy tranquillity
My presence would disrupt your peaceful state
I'd turn away the sad impossibility of your smile
I want to erase the sorrowful reality behind your smile
I'd sit there in the sun of the things I like about you
I want to bask in the positive attributes and qualities that I admire in you
I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you
I want to see how my music and artistic expression resonate with you
But most of all I'd like you to be unaware
I desire to observe you without you being conscious of my presence
Then I'd just wander away, trailing palm leaves behind me
After satisfying my curiosity, I would depart without leaving a trace
Contributed by Henry B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@gabrielledennis549
I'd like to walk around in your mind someday
I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me
I'd like to run and jump on your solitude
I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me
You say you just want peace and you'd never hurt anyone
You see the end before the beginning has ever begun
I would disturb your easy tranquility
I'd turn away the sad impossibility of your smile
I'd sit there in the sun of the things I like about you
I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you
But most of all I'd like you to be unaware
And I'd just wander away
Trailing palm leaves behind me
So you don't even know that I've been there
@duetforherbivores
This is a diary entry from Vashti Bunyan that I feel matches the mood of this song sort of.
"Crossing Rannoch Moor, Scotland. Late May 1969.
Our days went walking by with no other souls, just us and the dogs and Bess and the wagon. A barren landscape of heather and moss which for me held nothing but cold dread – all that sky-wide space and featureless misty horizon. Exposure.
As we stopped to rest, Robert saw a pile of rocks far across the moorland and decided he must go to visit it. I stayed with the dogs and Bess and the wagon as he set out. His figure became smaller and smaller until I thought he might just disappear – taken into the hidden fairy kingdom he had always wanted to find, never to emerge again, leaving me with my heartbeat and the dogs and Bess and the wagon to go back or go forward or – or what?
The road was so long, empty. But then – back in the distance – I saw a red dot. The dot became a car. A red mini. It flashed past me in a blink, reminding me how slowly we had been travelling, how our footsteps and hoof-beats were taking us along at just a human and horse’s pace.
I stood there – seemingly invisible, but the driver must have seen that strange little green wagon – with its red undercarriage and bright yellow wheels against the endless colourless moor. And the black horse, and the young woman waving in the middle of this great bare land. But there was for me no longed for waving back, or slowing down or ached for link with another human being. The mini became a small red dot again. Gone.
Fury rising. Why was I not in a car? A car with a good strong engine and a tank full of petrol, safe and insulated from the wilderness. Why were we making Bess do this? How ever did I come to be here, alone in the middle of wide open land under a never-endingly grey sky? With miles left behind me of urban and suburban roads, spring-green fields and lakes and familiar soft hills – with miles of unknown ahead all still to be trodden? Slow and steady pace wins the race? What was the sense in it?
I remember vividly that moment of doubt – and still don’t really know the answers."
@LpsDreamsStarsandMoons
🌌Lyrics:🌌
I'd like to walk around in your mind someday
I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me
I'd like to run and jump on your solitude
I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me
You say you just want peace and you'd never hurt anyone
You see the end before the beginning has ever begun
I would disturb your easy tranquility
I'd turn away the sad impossibility of your smile
I'd sit there in the sun of the things I like about you
I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you
But most of all I'd like you to be unaware
And I'd just wander away
Trailing palm leaves behind me
So you don't even know that I've been there
@ciyei1530
Letra en español
Me gustaría caminar en tu mente algún día.
Me gustaría caminar por todas las cosas que me dices .
Me gustaría correr y saltar sobre tu soledad .
Me gustaría reorganizar tu actitud hacia mí .
Dices que solo quieres paz y nunca lastimar a nadie .
Ves el final antes de que el comienzo haya comenzado .
Perturbaría tu tranquilidad fácil .
Rechazaría la triste imposibilidad de tu sonrisa .
Me sentaría allí al sol de las cosas que me gustan de ti .
Cantaría mis canciones y descubriría lo que significan para ti .
Pero sobre todo me gustaría que no supieras
Entonces simplemente me alejaba, arrastrando hojas de palma detrás de mí
Entonces ni siquiera sabes que he estado allí.
@eans8519
This was played in the background of my funeral in 1968, it's nice to hear it again :)
@snowspelak2040
wait a minute
@StuperrDuck
How's hell?
@icouldoflovedyouforever3361
Reincarnation
@Lunaloaff
Hol up
@heavycan2011
الله يرحمك
@luckyshow98
Can you believe that her voice couldn’t find an audience back in the 70s? So Vashti left the music industry, what a great loss. Her voice just crawls into your heart and curls into itself, gently lying there.
Whose ears does not want to experience that?
@whodare171
It's a wonderful thing that she found an audience and recognition and came back to it in the early 2000s.
@vasyamfilm
She’s great!
@MIKECNW
Un this was 1967 and it's not like she was the only one of her time.
Plus I wouldn't say she never found an audience though she probably wasn't known to the masses.
A lot of folk artists I don't think are often as big as rock, pop or those of other types of music.