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Open Mike Eagle
  • Sir Rockabye
  • Middling
  • TRACK

    Open Mike Eagle

    Middling

    Release date: 7th June 2013

    From Sir Rockabye
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    About This Track

    "Middling" is a track by Open Mike Eagle, from the album Sir Rockabye, released 7th June 2013. Full lyrics are available below.

    About the Artist

    Open Mike Eagle

    Open Mike Eagle

    Lyrics

    Middling

    [Verse 1]
    
    You old middle of the road ass
    
    Don't know the code ass
    
    Mid ranged, flat EQ, not even low pass filtered
    
    You probably like gray better than silver
    
    Closet full of short sleeve dress shirts for work
    
    Like Dagwood or Dilbert
    
    If you were a nut, you'd be a filbert
    
    About as edgy as Bob the Builder
    
    Yeah, your whole style's all butter knife
    
    You make Jack McBrayer look like a guttersnipe
    
    You probably get ten types of offended at adult content
    
    In just a friend and do what you like
    
    Do some helium
    
    Sound of your voice is extra extra medium
    
    Anything to dress up your mediocre proscenium
    
    Get zesty
    
    I bet you go to karaoke nights and do Kiss medleys
    
    And that's only a bad thing cause you're the one doing it
    
    Your lameness contagious, pick a thing and you'll ruin it
    
    Human silverfish
    
    The last thing you created was a burnt mixed CD of Wilson Philips hits
    
    Low white dull light but wilted filament
    
    If you're a baby then god damn it, take a baby step
    
    Good grief, you probably sleep in a safety net
    
    Head full of gray berets
    
    Dream about winning but in life won't place a bet
    
    [Hook]
    
    So middling, middling, middling
    
    No riddling
    
    Blink all night and won't miss a thing
    
    Middling, don't say no, go for anything
    
    Try to find a way to go in between, in between
    
    [Verse 2]
    
    Your whole style's all vanilla bean
    
    Let's see you try to fence sit under a guillotine
    
    I'd rather watch nature films where gorillas bring
    
    Than see footage of your life's most chilling scene
    
    Okay, that was kinda mean
    
    I just want you to be less like a limabean
    
    If I could I'd use magic or a time machine
    
    To rewind the thing
    
    You wouldn't want me to, not Inspector Space Time
    
    Just a normal constable
    
    Like watching Keystone Cops move at normal speed
    
    Mistaking all mediocrity as normalcy
    
    You sit at home and watch Boogie Nights without the fist fights or the porno scenes
    
    You eat plain frozen yogurt
    
    And won't know what to do when reality shows are over
    
    I'd like to stick your head in an empty can of Folgers
    
    I got with your member card from your local grocer
    
    [Hook]

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    Track details

    From Sir Rockabye

    2013
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    Sir Rockabye
    Sir Rockabye
    Open Mike Eagle
    Release year
    2013
    1. —Middling
    2. —Degrassi Picture Day (Hellfyre Jackets)
    3. —Clean It Up
    4. —Mef's Lament
    5. —Password (tiny man raps)

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