The Middle

I have been struggling living with my dad and his girlfriend for the past nine months while my mom has been sick. Since I started my senior year in August, I have been diagnosed with depression and have been trying to find ways of keeping myself strong and optimistic. I felt my strength start to slip away until I started to try turning things around and this song that initiated that. Thank you Jimmy Eat World!

I wish I had this song when I was in highschool.

This song is great!! Finally some good stuff on the radio. I think that everyone, especially those of us in high school, should pay attention to these lyrics just once. This song is all about being who you really are and not worrying what the so-called "popular" kids think about you! This song is basically saying be yourself, take your own path, and be proud of it!! : )

This is by far my favorite song. When I first heard it I was like, "Um ok this is nice but..." And when I really listened to it, it was like, "Whoa. This is really a message right here." After that, I saw the video and it was like, "Don't be like the rest. You can do better." And that's what I did and I'm really my own person.

This song always puts me in a good mood. When I'm feeling down, it always seems to be able to cheer me up and kind of motivate me to keep going and not sell out, lol. This is definitely a 'feel-good' song.

THIS SONG IS THE BEST...its so true and it tells ya to be strong n keep doin what u think is right n who cares about what all the other fake lame asses think

This song is like perfect for me, because it's just say that even though other people are doing the same things and that they don't like the things that you do. You should just be yourself.

I didn't read all of the comments above, so I guess this has being said before, but, this song has helped me so much. Is like the UNIVERSAL ULTIMATE song to give you hope during those awkward mometns of a hard long-term age called adolescence or for most of us: high School. We all go through it, and we all feel rejected or misunderstood, secluded, etc, etc, etc. At least at once you want to know what people think about you, or you want to do something to fit in, or complitely disappear. But you can't, so, for those moments Thank You JEW, for giving humanity this perfect piece of art perfect to overcome all those issues and make us feel comfortable with who we are inside and outside, and be able to stand up fot ourselves, and shine for who we really are. If you haven't feel left out of weird in society, then you don't know what this song is about. And if feels awesome to have someone singing specially to us. They obviously have someone who felt that way, and we all just want somebody to care about our real feelings.

And if you don't realte to it, well you can still dance and jump around with it, that riff is AMAZING and really really catchy.

Adore the video. One of my favorites of all time.

yeah it reminds me a lot of school and trying to be "accepted" and crap. It tends to have that "chin up" sort of effect on me too.

This is one of my favorite songs. I LOVE Jimmy Eat World and think that they write great songs. This song especially has a way of cheering me up when I'm sad.