Lyrics for Stuck In The Middle as interpreted by jonisofsparta

Stuck In The Middle Lyrics
I sit and think about the day that you’re gonna die
As your wrinkled eyes betray the joy with which you smile
Care to see my reason?
Care to put your life in mine?
Looking at life from the perspective of a boy
Who’s learned to love you but has also learned to grow
Could we make it better? Stormy weather,
So hard to know

Oh, oh, oh – Is there anybody home
Who’ll believe me, won’t deceive me, won't try to change me?
Ah, ah, ah – Is there anybody home
Who wants to have me just to love me?
Stuck in the middle

I look at you, you look at me, we bite each other
And with your bitter words, you kick me in the gutter
But my troops are bigger than yours
‘Cos you’ll never stand my fight
Ours is a family that’s based upon tradition
But with my careless words I tread upon your vision
Are five kids better than one, (who’d busy lie to become)?

Oh, oh, oh – Is there anybody home
Who’ll believe me, won’t deceive me, won't try to change me?
Ah, ah, ah – Is there anybody home
Who wants to have me just to love me?
Stuck in the middle

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

This is who I am,
This ain’t a greater plan to break your heart of me
I know that what I’ve started means that when we have parted
I can live in honesty

Oh, oh, oh – Is there anybody home
Who’ll believe me, won’t deceive me, won't try to change me?
Ah, ah, ah – Is there anybody home
Who wants to have me just to love me?
Stuck in the middle,
Stuck in the middle,
Stuck in the middle,
Stuck in the middle

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eoguy
01-11-2007

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I think the song has a meaning, but a lot of these lyrics are wrong. Crucial words in the song are changed in the above entry.

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LillyDarko
02-07-2007

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Eesh, you're right eoguy! Someone better get editing before the Mika fans get angry. It's a great song, but the piano in it reminds me of the Scissor Sisters song... which is quite annoying. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against them, they can get very OTT though.

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veeruska
02-24-2007

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I was wondering of what does the piano remind me of until I read LillyDarko's comment! she's right it's a lot like one of Scissor Sisters' song...maybe too much? well i like this anyway...and he's a nice guy also

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ccbubblegum
03-09-2007

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"So I (dunno). " This is pretty clearly "so hard to know" but all the other parenthetical lyrics are incorrect as well and I cannot figure out for the life of me what they really are. Any suggestions?

Also, if the SS song you are talking about is "I Can't Decide," I got that impression as well, but I love it even if it is "very over the top" so I don't have any complaints there, haha.

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ccbubblegum
03-24-2007

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Oh, also:
"better words" is "bitter words," and
"who’ll try to teach me?" is "won't try to change me?"

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powderfinger999
04-09-2007

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So what do people think its about? the first verse kind of reminds me of someone who's mum is really ill and is dying or something along those lines... Anyone care to expand on this theory?

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thatoneperson823
04-09-2007

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"bitter words you kick me in the gutter" i know, not "better" . . wrong . .

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mikalover
04-10-2007

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im sure its betray not betrayed, and change me not teach me... i may be wrong... i thought it was little words not better but bitter works much better, and i thought it was truths not troops, and who doesnt like to be gone not busy... oh and i used to think that it was our fat kids better than 1, not are 5 kids !!!! hahaha all my mates couldnt work it out until we came here!!!

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its me again
04-17-2007

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the piano sounds like "Laura" by the Scissor Sisters.. but i still love this song!

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courtneyay
04-23-2007

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I'm pretty sure that:

I can live in all this (stench?) -- should be-- I can live in honesty.

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raiseyourvoice
05-24-2007

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Laura!!

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ccbubblegum
06-03-2007

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Still don't know what the hell the "five kids better than one..." line is supposed to be, but the impression I get from the rest of the song is that of a son estranged from a parent because of something about him and his life choices. This part, if I'm hearing it correctly:

This is who I am
This ain’t a greater plan to break your heart of me
I know that what I’ve started means that when we have parted
I can live in honesty

makes me think it's because the narrator is gay, though Mika isn't commenting on that particular part of his personal life at this time... He's saying he's not deliberately trying to piss them off, that's just who he is, and their disapproval prevents him from being open about that aspect of himself (thus, he can't live in honesty). The family "based upon tradition" and his entreating for someone who "won't try to change" him support this hunch, I think. You could use the same argument to say it's about a boy who wants to be an artist/rock star/hairdresser/video game designer while his parents want him to be a doctor or any sort of conflict in that vein.

(Also, I don't think the opening lines imply an ill/dying parent so much as resentful fantasies on the part of the narrator?)

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Sarah-Stagedive
06-04-2007

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Mika said in an interview that the song seems odd due to the opening line, but he wrote it about his mother and grandmother. Not that he's waiting for them to die, but he thinks about it alot because they've always had a big role in his life, and he wonders what he'll do when they're gone.

"Are five kids better than one?" refers to his family; he's the middle child in a family of 5.

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supermariaaaaa
06-17-2007

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Best song on the album...so classic

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Jammar190
06-26-2007

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" Still don't know what the hell the "five kids better than one..." line is supposed to be, but the impression I get from the rest of the song is that of a son estranged from a parent because of something about him and his life choices. This part, if I'm hearing it correctly:

This is who I am
This ain’t a greater plan to break your heart of me
I know that what I’ve started means that when we have parted
I can live in honesty

makes me think it's because the narrator is gay, though Mika isn't commenting on that particular part of his personal life at this time... He's saying he's not deliberately trying to piss them off, that's just who he is, and their disapproval prevents him from being open about that aspect of himself (thus, he can't live in honesty). The family "based upon tradition" and his entreating for someone who "won't try to change" him support this hunch, I think. You could use the same argument to say it's about a boy who wants to be an artist/rock star/hairdresser/video game designer while his parents want him to be a doctor or any sort of conflict in that vein.

(Also, I don't think the opening lines imply an ill/dying parent so much as resentful fantasies on the part of the narrator?) "

I agree with many of that, but not about Mika being gay. Just because the narrator or character of the song is gay doesn't mean he is.

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Asdfaeou
07-08-2007

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I always thought the line after "Are five kids better than one" was "Who doesn't like to be born?"

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melilejzen
09-09-2007

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piano introduction reminds me of the beatles`"fool on the hill". Does anybody agree?

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rAwr_
09-13-2007

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---piano introduction reminds me of the beatles`"fool on the hill". Does anybody agree?

YES! I knew it sounded like a beatles song...but I couldn't think of which one.

I agree with Jammar on the translation, but he sends my gay-dar off the wall. Not that it matters. I don't know why society cares if he's gay or not. He obviously doesn't want to be out. So let him be.

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Teakettle
09-18-2007

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So, I'm pretty sure this is a sort of song version of a fight he's had with his mother ... "biting each other" with their words, etc. I'm guessing it's because his parents disapproved of his career choice? Or maybe he is gay and that's what they're unhappy about? I have a sneaking suspicion that he's straight, though.

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Parisblindstwice
01-17-2008

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I'm glad I'm not the only person that was reminded of "laura" by the scissor sisters.

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teaguelovestheworld
02-03-2008

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I believe that it is 'PORTRAY the joy with which you smile'
Betray makes no sense.

But this is a really fabulous song. Looove it.

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11111ontherun
03-16-2008

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Yeah to me it definitely sounds like the story of a boy coming out to his family to me, the whole thing: "ours is a family thats based upon tradition" and the "won't try to change me"
or atleast i think so!

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FiFiCat
08-18-2008

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This song is obviously about something in the narrator's life which his family disapproves of, this could be gay-ness, lifestyle, etc. He feels like his family no longer accept him fro who he relly is, and he is stuck between being true to himself and being "true" to his family by being the person they expect him to be.

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andreabrull
01-23-2009

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is there any chance this song is about homosexuality
i mean a boy wondering....

Is there anybody home
Who’ll believe me, won’t deceive me, won't try to change me?
Who wants to have me just to love me?

This is who I am
This ain’t a greater plan to break your heart of me ( i dont do this to hurt you this is just who i am)

idk is just that when i saw the lyrics y thought of that

im not against gays or anything is just a thought


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Camb06
07-20-2009

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I love songs like this. It seems that the verses are told in two separate perspectives, a diologue of trains of thought in an intamate relationship. I can clearly see a change in character in the middle of the verses. for example:

I look at you, you look at me, we bite each other
And with your bitter words, you kick me in the gutter
But my troops are bigger than yours
�Cos you�ll never stand my fight
Ours is a family that�s based upon tradition
But with my careless words I tread upon your vision
Are five kids better than one, (who�d busy lie to become)?

despite the error at the end (I can't understand it either), the beginning seems to be the victim, hurt by something his partner said, then reverses at line 5 to the other party, since it kind of changes upbeat, as if nonchalant about how he or she had hurt his or her partner.

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