"Indiana Wants Me" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter R. Dean Taylor.

It was released on the Rare Earth label, a subsidiary of Motown Records, in 1970, and was a top ten hit in both the US and UK.

[2] The song is written from the viewpoint of someone who has killed a man out of defending his wife's honor; he is missing his family and hiding from the police, who eventually catch up with him.

It was released on the Rare Earth label, formed by Motown in an attempt to establish itself in the rock music market.

At the climax of the song, soon after the narrator has sung, "Red lights are flashin' around me,/ Yeah, love, it looks like they found me," and the chorus, a voice on a bullhorn is heard, commanding: "This is the police.