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[Verse 1]
G
Back to the middle and don’t you remember?
                                         D
Every day was another fish tank and your head
D
Swims around and you wrote us a letter
Sayin’ things will get much better, goes
G
Back to the middle and don’t you remember?
                                               D
Every night, there’s a tiny porch light in our chest
D
Pulls clouds of bugs to flutter
We felt loved as they carried us, carried us

[Chorus]
G
Back to the middle and don’t you remember?
Our head is a cage and the parrot loves to talk

D/F# G/F# D/F# D/F#
G/F# D Dadd4 D Dadd4

[Verse 2]
G
We built a cabin and we built a castle
G                                                           D Dadd4 D Dadd4
I just don’t believe it was worth all the hassle, you know?
G
We lived in cities and we lived in caves
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I guess I’d like to move back to the middle again

[Chorus]
G
Back to the middle and don’t you remember?
G
Our head is a cage and the parrot, it won’t shut up

D/F# G/F# D/F# D/F#
G/F# D Dadd4 D Dadd4

[Verse 3]
G
Back to the middle and don’t you remember?
Now and then we would take our ladder and
D
See if we will climb to the heavens or
Shift our gaze and climb down to never go
G
Back to the middle and don’t you remember?
Every winter, we would wish it were warmer and
D
Every summer, I will knit you a sweater
Scratch words in the dirt to remember that
G
We’re up here right now, not forever, we’ll
                                        D
Be pulled right back down to the middle again