Chords for Jimmy Eat World On 'The Middle' - NME Song Stories

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[D] _ _ [C#] _ _ [Dm] _ Hey, I'm Jim and I'm Tom [A] we play in Jimmy world and we're gonna talk about our song middle
[G] Which came out on our?
2001
[D] Self-titled slash bleed American album.
I think it middle started out kind of like a joke
[A] [D] like _ _
[G] You know, it's so it was just so simple [D] when you hear it in a sort of purest form even if you played it acoustic
It's just yeah, it's a really [A] simple straightforward song
So I think [G] for us in the studio it was
[D] So like kind of honor that not make it too complicated
There's definitely [A] a stigma.
I think when you're working that if something is too [G] easy, it's not earned
You [C#] know, like if you [D] just get an idea and you play in you it just happens you develop your idea quickly
It's not earned
[A] so I thought middle was kind of
[D] Not as good as [G] some of the other songs because I [D] hadn't like sweat over it so much
But I mean you gotta sometimes just let that go and just be [A] cool with it
we were working with March on you know on if you [G] produce that album and
You know, he was [D] really great at like _
Finding these cool little sort of sonic textures to put in different [A] places
It might not have the kind of [G] same kind of movement from one part to the next if you don't have [D] those little subtle things
Back in those days back in the days when that was written that I think we had a [A] Jimmy world at a well calm _
[G] Email address I was [D] looking at the email for some rate like at my I didn't you know
I had to go my parents house to look at to use their computer to check the band's [A] email
[Dm] You know and and you know, there would be like [D] three people that are written _
And there was a 14 there was like a girl who [A] is that
Junior and like a junior high age [G] me like
13 14 who was it [D] was like, I don't know
She was a fan and she wrote something about how she didn't feel like she fit in with the punk rock [A] crowd
At her school because she was like more [G] she wasn't like punk enough for them
[D] and I thought about that's that's kind of odd a tenant [A] of
punk ideal or
[D] _ Alternative outside the mainstream [A] kind of ideal is that you find [D] you think yourself being more
[G] accepting so it's just kind of like a I
[D] Guess I guess that team was kind of a reaction to that.
You [A] know, like
Don't people you don't want to be friends with them.
Anyway, I kind of
[G] [D] It's a great video.
It's a lot of fun to make it [A] was really hot that day
[G] And just yeah, it was it was [D] it was like a big party making it to you know
Which you know translates I think I think you can see that in there.
There was one guy that _ _
[G] a
PA had to [D] give a
Discreet timeout to because he was getting a little [A] excited
Like [G] scrap that strap that to your leg buddy
[D] He was having a hard time
in the heat hanging out with
_ [A] Bunch of scantily clad ladies
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