Stuck In The Middle -- Mika

I sit and think about the day that you’re gonna die, ‘Cos your wrinkled eyes betrayed 
the joy with which you smiled. Care to see my reason? Care to put your life in mine? 
Looking at life from the perspective of a boy Who’s learnt to love you but has also 
learned to grow. Could we make it better, stormy weather,  So I dunno. 

(**) Is there anybody home?  Who’ll believe me, won’t deceive me, who’ll try to
teach me  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 better 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 like to be gone? 

(**)  


This is to my name, This ain’t a great plan to break your heart 
out of me.  I know that what I’ve started means that when we have parted 
I can live in honesty.

(**)   


Mika is the third of five children, and he had a very interesting childhood. He was born in Beirut, but raised in Paris and London. Along the way, he struggled with dyslexia, bullying, OCD, and of course, family issues. Mika has been reluctant to talk about this song in interviews, as it's very personal to him, but he has hinted in concerts that a lot of it deals with his mother and his conflicted feelings for her. Being "stuck in the middle" can relate to his middle child status, but it can also mean he is stuck in a turbulent family where he struggles to fit in.     (songfacts)