Ease Your Mind

The Take

Track nineteen of *Octane* (digital deluxe v1), 'Ease Your Mind' is one of three deluxe-variant tracks added to the streaming edition of the album in 2026, produced by Project X, Daniel Moras, and Williskeating. The 1:40 runtime makes it the shortest deluxe inclusion. The lyric paraphrase: the title is taken at face value — Don's narrator is delivering the kind of patience-and-calm directive that the album's high-velocity automotive-imagery vocabulary has by definition not staged elsewhere. The deluxe variant frame means the track sits adjacent to rather than continuous with the album's main narrative arc; the song functions as bonus material rather than concept-statement work. Production credits for the deluxe variants on *Octane* are partially documented; for 'Ease Your Mind' the credit chain reads as a smaller, less-known production team than the album's main tracks, which is consistent with the deluxe variant's status as bonus content. Inside the deluxe v1 framing, the song reads as the album's deliberate breath into a mental-health-coded register that the standard edition's high-energy automotive concept doesn't directly inhabit. Production credits pending second-source confirmation for some collaborators.