Middle Man

Living Colour * Track #3 On Vivid [2002 Reissue]

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Album Vivid [2002 Reissue]

ALBUM

Living Colour

1988

Middle Man by Living Colour

Performed by

Living Colour

Produced by

Mick Jagger & Ed Stasium

Writed by

Vernon Reid & Corey Glover

About

“Middle Man” is Living Colour’s debut single. Its lyrics were inspired by a suicide note frontman Corey Glover wrote when he was a teenager.

Middle Man Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I don't have a need to be the best
Don't want to be just like the rest
Just stay who I am
Just an ordinary middle man

[Verse 2]
Give me the happy medium
Don't want to be the one whose leading them, no, no
I've got no master plan
Just a simple middle man

[Bridge]
Standing on a fine line between this and that
Just biding my time, waiting for a sign
To tell me that I'm something special
Well, well

[Verse 3]
My ideas are mine alone
Not yours, not theirs, but I care
I hurt for you, but not with you
I love that thing that's inside you

[Chorus]
But I'm not your fan
I'm a stranger in a strange land
I am your middle man

[Chorus]
But I'm not your fan
I'm a stranger in a strange land
I am your middle man

[Outro]
Middle man, yeah, yeah
I'm not your fan
I'm just a middle man
Yours, theirs, but I care
I've got no master plan
Just be who I am
Just a middle man

Middle Man Q&A

Who wrote Middle Man's ?

Middle Man was written by Vernon Reid & Corey Glover.

Who produced Middle Man's ?

Middle Man was produced by Mick Jagger & Ed Stasium.

What did Living Colour say about "Middle Man"?

Corey Glover shared that the lyrics of “Middle Man” were based on a suicide note he wrote as a teen:

I was maybe 16, 17 years old, and I was just fed up with everything. I was feeling just down and depressed. When I initially started writing it, it was going to be an open letter to anybody that fou...

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