Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World & Davey von Bohlen
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World
“The Middle” was written after Jimmy Eat World had been dropped from Capitol Records after their previous album Clarity had been released. Jimmy Eat World’s first album Static Prevails had sold just 10,000 copies in 1996 and Capitol Records decided to drop the band in 1999 due to a change in priorit...
[Verse 1]
Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head, you feel left out
Or looked down on
Just try your best, try everything you can
And don't you worry what they tell themselves
When you're away
[Chorus]
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be alright, alright
[Verse 2]
Hey, you know they're all the same
You know you're doing better on your own (On your own)
So don't buy in
Live right now, yeah, just be yourself
It doesn't matter if it's good enough (Good enough)
For someone else
[Chorus]
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be alright, alright
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be alright, alright
Woo!
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head, you feel left out (Feel left out)
Or looked down on
Just do your best (Just do your best)
Do everything you can (Do everything you can)
And don't you worry what their bitter hearts (Bitter hearts)
Are gonna say
[Chorus]
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be alright, alright
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be alright
The Middle was written by Tom Linton & Zach Lind & Rick Burch & Jim Adkins.
The Middle was produced by Jimmy Eat World & Mark Trombino.
Jimmy Eat World released The Middle on Mon Nov 05 2001.
Frontman Jim Adkins shared in an interview with Alternative Press:
Back in the days of really early social media experiments, we had an email address. That was our first venture into the internet, before websites were a main thing. It was like an electronic version of writing the band [via] post of...
When asked in an interview with Alternative Press whether the song was a reaction to being dropped from their record label, Jim Adkins answered:
Not at all. From our perspective, it was just a continuation of what we were doing. We flew pretty low under the radar at Capitol. When were “on the label...