Middle Man Lyrics
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
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
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.
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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 found me, that I was tired of being caught up in everybody’s mess. I was tired of being in the middle of things. I’m tired of being the middle man. And then in the midst of me working this out in my head, it dawned on me that this was not a bad place to be in some cases, that at least I was somewhere. It doesn’t mean that it’s the best place in the world, but it doesn’t mean it’s the worst, either. So it actually got me out of the idea that I needed to stop being. It changed my life.
If you’re ever struggling, please call the National Suicide Prevention line 1-800-273-8255
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