The Read My Mind video is disjuncture which means having no relevance to the song lyrics. The video for "Read My Mind" was shot in Tokyo. In an interview, Brandon Flowers called the tune "kind of our favorite song" and promised the clip would find the band "in Tokyo, on bikes.“ The video shows the The Killers in Tokyo, seemingly just having a good time and carrying out activities with the freedom of youth. These include riding different bicycles through the Tokyo streets. The band are also seen in a traditional arcade playing session Guitar Freaks and Drummania, playing with leaves in a Tokyo park with some Japanese school children, and interacting with Japanese children's TV character Gachapin.The various scenes are intercut with footage of Flowers singing in the middle of the city at a traffic interchange. The video ends with the four members of the band in a hotel.
The video premiered on 8th February 2007, on MTV as part of their "Spankin' New Music Week." On the March 23rd 2007 episode of VH1's Top 20 Countdown, "Read My Mind" was number one, making it the first time, a Killers' video had reached that rank.
This song is about a near break up, the girl's tired of him, and wants to move on, but he's going through all these memories that they shared etc and is trying to get her to feel the way he does about the situation - that they can move on together. He knows she's right and wants to get out of the town and escape the rut that he's fallen into...so he goes to her house to see if she's read his mind and wants to reignite their passion, not be scared, and start life anew with him. In the end, the beautiful "the stars are blazing..." line, I think refers to them driving off together, with everything resolved and wonderful again.
