Go on and wring my neck
Like when a rag gets wet
A little discipline
For my pet genius

My head is like a lettuce
Go on and dig your thumbs in
I cannot stop giving
I'm thirty-something

Sense of security
Like pockets jingling
Midlife crisis
Suck ingenuity

Down through the family tree
You're perfect, yes, it's true
But without me you're only you
Your menstruating heart
It ain't bleedin' enough for two

It's a midlife crisis
It's a midlife crisis
What an inheritance
The salt and the Kleenex

Morbid self attention
Bending my pinky back
A little discipline
A donor by habit

A little discipline
Rent an opinion
Sense of security
Holding blunt instrument

Midlife crisis
I'm a perfectionist
And perfect is a skinned knee
You're perfect, yes, it's true
But without me you're only you

Your menstruating heart
It ain't bleeding enough for two

(Yeah)

It's a midlife crisis
It's a midlife crisis

You're perfect, yes, it's true (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) but without me you're only you (go on and wring my neck)
Your menstruating heart (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) it ain't bleedin' enough for two

You're perfect, yes, it's true (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) but without me you're only you (go on and wring my neck) (you're only you)
Your menstruating heart (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) it ain't bleedin' enough for two

You're perfect, yes, it's true (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) but without me you're only you (go on and wring my neck) (you're only you)
Your menstruating heart (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) it ain't bleedin' enough for two

You're perfect, yes, it's true (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) but without me you're only you (go on and wring my neck)

Your menstruating heart (go on and wring my neck)
(Like when a rag gets wet) it ain't bleedin' enough for two


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    Mike Patton is notorious for bullshitting reporters. I don't believe the Madonna thing at all.

    Midlife Crisis is about a child's father who lusts for his youth and abandons the family and then that child grows up and has a Midlife crisis himself. The whole time he's going through it, he remembers the pain of being selfishly abandoned by his own father and is both sickened by the pain he's causing as well as with the sudden sympathy and renewed anger towards his father who left so many years ago for the same reasons.

    The song is riddled with double-meanings.

    A lot of times, men going through a Midlife crisis feel as though they've wasted their youth and potential and have regrets. They suddenly feel "weighed down" by the burdens of family and want to be young again.

    "Suck ingenuity down through the family tree"

    Refers to that sense of having wasted potential to pass it on to the kids. It also refers to the "passing on" of the crisis itself from father to son.

    "Your menstruating heart doesn't bleed enough for two"

    Another dual meaning:

    1. it refers the anger he felt as a child at his father expressing sorrow but leaving anyway...like saying "I'm sorry I have to do this, kid" and walking out the door.
    2. it refers to his own understanding of the emotional hemorrhaging he is causing his family and realizing that he's going to abandon them anyway.

    Now read the rest of the lyrics and you'll understand.

    navkaton April 06, 2008   Link

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