<Suspicious Minds>는 미국의 싱어 송 라이터 Mark James의 작품으로 마크가 1968년 발표했으나 상업적으로 실패한 뒤에 1969년 Elvis Presley가 커버해 US 1위, 캐나다 1위에 올랐다. 이 곡은 7년만의 1위곡을 배출했다는 점에서 엘비스의 드라마틱한 컴백을 주도했지만 엘비스의 마지막 US 1위곡이기도 하다.
엘비스 외에도 커버 곡들 중 히트한 버전으로는 Waylon Jennings & Jessie Colter, Fine Young Cannibals, Dwight Yoakam, Gareth Gates & Will Young의 듀오 버전 등이 있다.
가사는 상대에게 사랑하고 있으니 다른 사람과의 관계를 의심하지 말아달라고 애원하는 곡이다.
마크는 당시 결혼한 상태였는데 여전히 어린 시절 사귀었던 연인과도 친구처럼 잘 지내고 있었다. 마크의 부인은 이런 그에 대한 의심을 품고 있었고 마크는 세 명의 마음이 빠져나올 수 없는 어떤 함정에 빠진 것 같은 생각이 들어 무척 혼란스러웠고 그 감정을 노래에 담으려 했다.
We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?
We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
(suspicious minds)
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
So if an old friend I know
Drops by to say hello
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?
Here we go again
Asking where I've been
You can't see the tears are real,
I'm crying
We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
(suspicious minds)
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
Oh, let our love survive
I'll dry the tears from your eyes
Let's don't let a good thing die
When honey, you know
I've never lied to you
Mmm, yeah, yeah
We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?
Don't you know we're caught in a trap?
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Don't you know we're caught in a trap?
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Don't you know I'm caught in a trap?
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Don't you know I'm caught in a trap?
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Don't you know I'm caught in a trap?
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Don't you know I'm caught in a trap?
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Don't you know I'm caught in a trap...