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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Midlife Crisis Lyrics as written by Roddy Christopher Bottum Michael Andrew Bordin

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    The "clinging onto passing youth" concept is entirely spot-on for the general meaning of this song. This song is not about jerking off. Anyone who thinks that think ALL songs are about jerking off, no offense, shit happens.

    Mike said that he kept being bombarded so to speak with Madonna on television and radio so constantly that he began to analyze her as a person after pondering the idea. I assume that this song is primarily about materialism and how it changes people and causes them to make often times questionable decisions. Let's not forget; Madonna was the "Material Girl" -- a 'goddess' so to speak, someone whom portrayed herself as being super desirable and materialistic. To a lot of people, she was desirable, and this song is basically poking fun at the whole idea of a 30-something aging woman prancing around dressed like a 17 year old sex symbol spouting innuendo and relationship involved ultimatums at people as a 17 year old girl would.

    The lines about the skinned knee, morbid self attention and sense of security/holding blunt instrument refers to someone in denial about their own flaws and insecurities and unwittingly putting a guard up, or a front to hide their true feelings about themselves. They become self-involved and desperate for attention enough to make really odd choices to modify their appearance and personality.

    The lines about the family tree, bleeding heart, donor by habit, kleenex and salt, (a reference to crying), "you're perfect, yes it's true -- but without me, you're only you" and etcetera refer to her habits of philanthropy and involving herself in world causes and adopting foreign children in her real personal life, despite putting on the whole 'material girl' image that portrayed her as an unapproachable Diva in her artistic life.

    To Mike, it must have seemed that she was merely acting like a caring individual whom was genuinely interested in and concerned about these things as a business and personal measure, presumably to gain positive attention from people who may have never given her that and make herself seem like a 'good guy'... meanwhile possibly affecting others lives negatively as a result of her decisions. It also alludes to the idea of her philanthropic behavior as being an inconvenience to her despite her efforts -- a contradiction, or crisis if you will.

    dean-ialon October 19, 2010   Link

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