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In the middle of the road,
Is trying to find me.
I'm standing in the middle of life with my pains behind me.
But, I got a smile
For everyone I meet.
Long as you don't try dragging my bay,
Or dropping a bomb on the street.
Come on baby,
Get in the road.
Come on now,
In the middle of the road, yeah.
In the middle of the road,
You see the darnest things.
Like fat cats driving around in jeeps through the city,
Wearing big diamond rings and silk suits.
Past corrugated tin shacks holed up with kids and
Man I don't mean a Hampstead nursery.
But when you own a big chunk of the bloody third world,
The babies just come with the scenery.
Come on baby,
Get in the road.
Come on now,
In the middle of the road, yeah.
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.
In the middle of the road,
Is my private cul de sac.
I can't get from the cab to the curb,
Without some little jerk on my back,
Don't harass me kid,
Can't you tell I'm going home, I'm tired as hell,
I'm not the cat I used to be,
I've got a kid, I'm thirty-three baby.
Get in the road.
Come on now,
In the middle of the road.

unclehud May 13, 2013 - 11:26	Well, depending on where YOU are in the road, this could be way out there, or at your right hand. Me? I meander all over the road, and this is OUTSTANDING!!! [ Reply ]
Webfoot Apr 18, 2013 - 07:09	Moak wrote: It just hit me now...this could be the best rock n' roll tune ever written. It's more in the middle of the road for me. [ Reply ]
Moak Apr 12, 2013 - 05:31	It just hit me now...this could be the best rock n' roll tune ever written. [ Reply ]
sirdroseph Mar 30, 2013 - 06:27	redmachine wrote: How ironic. It's called 'middle of the road'. perfect name for it. [ Reply ]
drewd Mar 17, 2013 - 20:06	rockpommel16 wrote: ....... .......................... .............................. Rock on Rockpommel !!! [ Reply ]
ziakut Feb 26, 2013 - 19:33	Not my favorite Pretenders tune...but then again...it's Ms. Hynde...good stuff. [ Reply ]
t00lur Feb 14, 2013 - 11:07	Alf! [ Reply ]
Highlowsel Feb 08, 2013 - 10:06	"When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world, the babies just come with the scenery." Whoosh! One of the better political statements I've ever heard in a song. Must be the underlying refrain of every oligarch and plutocrat out there these days, eh? So it goes. Highlow American Net'Zen [ Reply ]
bronorb Feb 08, 2013 - 10:04	toomanyollys wrote: Just looked up the lyrics and was very disappointed to see it's not "... standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me"... I always thought that was a better line too. [ Reply ]
toomanyollys Jan 08, 2013 - 01:56	Just looked up the lyrics and was very disappointed to see it's not "... standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me"... [ Reply ]
ottojschlosser Jan 02, 2013 - 13:28	There is nothing like this drum intro — one of those songs that you recognize 3 seconds in. Always happy to hear this. [ Reply ]
max_p Nov 06, 2012 - 07:31	Election day! middle of the road indeed meet the new boss.... [ Reply ]
rockpommel16 Oct 24, 2012 - 11:10	....... .......................... .............................. [ Reply ]
zanref Oct 24, 2012 - 11:10	Not sure why but I can't stand this masculine voice with russian accent.... [ Reply ]
kingart Oct 10, 2012 - 09:35	Smokin'! 120 proof straight neat rock and roll. [ Reply ]
joelbb Oct 05, 2012 - 22:29	Agree w/ all: this is maybe their BEST rocker and it does cook. [ Reply ]
helgigermany Sep 30, 2012 - 10:09	this is rock and roll and a good singer! [ Reply ]
joelbb Sep 08, 2012 - 20:17	This cut rocks so good we forgive them for all the drugs, insanity and star-turns. At LEAST a 9. [ Reply ]
rpdevotee Sep 08, 2012 - 20:15	[ Reply ]
WonderLizard Sep 04, 2012 - 09:13	Boy_Wonder wrote: I'm afraid James H-S had gone to the Great Gig in the Sky before this was recorded... Learning to Crawl is the Pretenders ' third album, released in 1984 after a two-year hiatus, during which time James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon both died of drug overdoses . After Farndon's dismissal from the band and Honeyman-Scott's death, Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers initially recruited Rockpile 's Billy Bremner and Big Country 's Tony Butler to fill out a caretaker line-up of the band in 1982. Bremner played guitar and Butler played bass on the band's September 1982 single "Back on the Chain Gang/My City Was Gone", both sides of which were later included on Learning to Crawl . As the album sessions got under way, Bremner, The Rumour's Andrew Bodnar, and Paul Carrack (formerly of Squeeze , Ace and Roxy Music ) played guitar, bass and piano respectively for the track "Thin Line Between Love and Hate". Finally, Robbie McIntosh (guitar) and Malcolm Foster (bass) were recruited to join Hynde and Chambers, and the band was now officially a quartet. It was this line-up that recorded the majority of the tracks featured on Learning to Crawl . The November 1983 single " 2000 Miles /Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law)" was the newly reconstituted foursome's first release, followed shortly by the full Learning to Crawl album in January 1984. And I'm afraid you're dead on—so to speak. One source credits Chambers with the opening and McIntosh with the solo ( http://www.coffeerooms.com/bb/showthread.php?t=1432 ), although Honeyman-Scott's guitar work is found somewhere on the bloody record, 'cos he's credited in the liner notes. Even if it's not JHS, it's a hell of a record, and I'd give it a 10 if Howard the Duck played lead. [ Reply ]