Name: The Middle
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: This song is about the scary first stage of liking someone, and fearing that you may be inadequate for them, because of your own personal issues - I wrote this song at a real low point with my mental health, just as I was beginning to like someone.

The Middle

from Fall Into You EP by Toby Burton

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This song is about the scary first stage of liking someone, and fearing that you may be inadequate for them, because of your own personal issues - I wrote this song at a real low point with my mental health, just as I was beginning to like someone.

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Staring back at those empty spaces, with my eyes just fixed on the walls and floors
Staring back at the same old faces, wondering ‘have I seen that one before?’
Hiding out in abandoned places, laid out with our feet against the door
Breaking out of these mental cages, all these thoughts would shake you to the core

But I don’t know, where I’ll go tomorrow

She’s got a lovely heart but she don’t know
About all of the places my mind goes when I’m alone
She’s got a lovely heart but she don’t know
How I’m trying to get my head out, from the middle

My hands are cold and my voice is shaking,
Close my eyes in my head I see it all
Gonna run and leave now traces, throw it out with my dreams to the ocean floor

But I don’t know, where I’ll go tomorrow

She’s got a lovely heart but she don’t know
About all of the places my mind goes when I’m alone
She’s got a lovely heart but she don’t know
How I’m trying to get my head out, from the middle

credits

from Fall Into You EP, released June 1, 2018
Vocals,Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals - Toby Burton
Drums- Daniel Wright
Bass - Josh Fielden
Extra Backing Vocals - Imogen Pollard

Recording/Mixing by Toby Burton, recorded at the University of Huddersfield.
Mastering by Luke Steele.
Written by Toby Burton.

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Toby Burton Huddersfield, UK

Acoustic singer-songwriter with a pop twist.

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- Christian Carlisle, BBC Introducing

"The songwriting of a seasoned musician, in the exterior of a young man" - The Pentatonic ... more

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