Middle Earth - Ceschi, Factor Chandelier, Sammus

Slipping my way through the cracks

And I hope you don’t overreact when my body collapses

I’ve been wandering hoping to find my own place on this planet

I’ve been up in the middle of it, I’ve been up in the middle of it

In the middle earth, I’ve been nothing but real with you

I’ve been nothing but real with you

Slipping my way through the cracks

And I hope you don’t overreact when my body collapses

I’ve been wandering hoping to find my own place on this planet

I’ve been up in the middle of it, I’ve been up in the middle of it

In the middle earth, I’ve been nothing but real with you

I’ve been nothing but real with you

Till the dirt

Is honesty overrated?

How many times have I said the same

The same thing in new ways?

Start to think it’s the way that my life’s gonna be

And I guess that’s okay

Wanted to be a grunge singer when I was child

Grew up fast and wild

Now the crow’s feet are crawling all over my face

Every time that I smile

What you know about being decapitated

While your body still rolls around aimlessly?

Is there a way for me to face my infinite demons

And maintain a sense of stability?

Hustling for pennies like I was still 14

I ain’t ready to grow up

«Just wasn’t made for these times»

Realize I will never blow up and that’s fine

I’m not Cobain or Cornell or Layne

I’m just floating inside my own lane

Every word that I’m singing is plain

Just hoping that someone out there can relate

And there’s times when I hate my brain

Want to drive directly into trees

Think of 6 million ways to stop breathing

When my heart is pounding from the anxiety

Every year it gets sadder and fatter

Till the point that you realize none of it matters much

For the minutes we have on this planet we’re seeking love

And that’s more than enough

Call it what you want

Call it God, call it your freedom

That connection between living beings is a powerful thing

And that’s real to us

Slipping my way through the cracks, slipping my way through the cracks

Slipping my way through the cracks, slipping my way through the cracks

And I know she don’t love me like that, I know she don’t love me like that

Not the game nor the lady, maybe neither of them gonna love me back, nah

Slipping my way through the cracks, slipping my way through the cracks

Slipping my way through the cracks, slipping my way through the cracks

And I know she don’t love me like that, I know she don’t love me like that

Not the game nor the lady, maybe neither of them gonna love me back, nah

Yo

I am a middle child

It took me a little while

To stop tryna get the approval of others

It’s better than living life in denial

My worst fear’s to be middling in my nightmares I’m a kid again

And my teacher is asking my chosen career

I deceive her 'cause that’s what adults want to hear

They like doctors, firefighters

Not a future that’s odd like it’s Tyler’s

It’s probably a sign I can’t lie through my teeth

I was missing my two front incisors

But now I sink my canines into sound rhymes

Like they steak knives

Anxiety tried me, I’ve died, been revived

So I’m trying to hold onto my eight lives

And I cannot pretend I could handle it

If I ended up in middle management

Yeah, I have to be fucking with something I love

If I’m burning both ends of my candle stick

And even then I’m a little carp

Busy giving birth to a great tale

To my biggest fans I am Joan of Arc

Walking middle earth in my chain mail, yeah

Slipping my way through the cracks

And I hope you don’t overreact when my body collapses

I’ve been wandering hoping to find my own place on this planet

I’ve been up in the middle of it, I’ve been up in the middle of it

In the middle earth, I’ve been nothing but real with you

I’ve been nothing but real with you

Slipping my way through the cracks

And I hope you don’t overreact when my body collapses

I’ve been wandering hoping to find my own place on this planet

I’ve been up in the middle of it, I’ve been up in the middle of it

In the middle earth, I’ve been nothing but real with you

I’ve been nothing but real with you

Till the dirt