Back to the Middle - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Back to the middle and don't you remember?

Every day was another fish tank and your

Head swims around and you wrote us a letter

Saying things will get much better, go

Back to the middle and don't you remember?

Every night, there's a tiny porch light in our

Chest pulls clouds of bugs to flutter

We felt love as it carried us, carried us

Back to the middle and don't you remember?

Our head is a cage and the parrot loves to talk

We built a cabin and we built a castle

I just don't believe it was worth all the hassle, you know?

We lived in cities and we lived in caves

I guess I'd like to move back to the middle again

Back to the middle and don't you remember?

Our head is a cage and the parrot, it won't shut up

Back to the middle and don't you remember?

Now and then, we would take out a ladder and

See if we wanna climb to the heavens or

Shift our gaze, climb down to—never go

Back to the middle and don't you remember?

Every winter, we would wish it were warmer and

Every summer, I will knit you a sweater

Scratch words in the dirt to remember that

We're up here right now, not forever

We'll be pulled right back down to the middle again