{title: Man in the middle}
{artist: Bee Gees}
{time: 4/4}
{tempo: 112}
{key: Em}
{meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06}
{meta: url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsJ5x_mYbA4}
{start_of_part: Intro}
[Em] [A/E]
[Em] [A/E]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
[Em] You've got a plan that could never go wrong
[D] You took advantage and the damage done
It all comes [A]back to me baby, it all comes [Em]back to me [D]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 2}
[Em] I played the fool and I went off the track
And when I [D]think of all it cost, when the die was cast
You know I [A]had to be crazy, you know I [Em]had to be
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{start_of_verse: Verse 3}
[Em] I've been telling [A]lies,
[Em] and you forgive me but my [D]heart still cries, and you can understand
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{start_of_chorus: Chorus 1}
I'm just the [Em]man in the [C]middle of a [G]complicated [D]plan
[Em]No one to [C]show me the [G]signs [Am]
I'm just a [Em]creature of [C]habit in a [G]complicated [D]world
[C]Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
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{start_of_part: Link}
[Em] [A/E]
[Em] [A/E]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 4}
[Em] I know I let you down in so many ways
I know that [D]sorry doesn't tell you what you need me to say
But, I would [A]die for you baby, yes, I would [Em]die for you
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{start_of_verse: Verse 5}
[Em] I've been in dis[A]guise
[Em] And you forgive me and our [D]love will rise, and you can understand
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{start_of_chorus: Chorus 2}
I'm just the [Em]man in the [C]middle of a [G]complicated [D]plan
[Em]No one to [C]show me the [G]light [Am]
Ah, yes, I'm [Em]weary from [C]battle but I've [G]just begun to [D]fight
[C]Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
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{start_of_chorus: Chorus 3}
I'm just the [Em]man in the [C]middle of a [G]complicated [D]plan
[Em]No one to [C]show me the [G]signs [Am]
I'm just a [Em]creature of [C]habit in a [G]complicated [D]world
[C]Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
{end_of_chorus}
{start_of_part: Link}
[Em] [A/E]
[Em] [A/E]
{end_of_part}
{start_of_chorus: Chorus 4}
I'm just the [Em]man in the [C]middle of a [G]complicated [D]plan
[Em]No one to [C]show me the [G]light [Am]
Ah, yes, I'm [Em]weary from [C]battle but I've [G]just begun to [D]fight
[C]Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
{end_of_chorus}
{start_of_chorus: Chorus 5}
I'm just the [Em]man in the [C]middle [G] [D]
the only [Em]man [C] [G] [Am]
The fool of a [Em]man in the [C]middle [G] [D]
[C]nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
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{start_of_chorus: Chorus 6}
I'm just the [Em]man [C] [G] [D]
the only [Em]man [C] [G] [D]
that stupid [Em]man, [C] [G] [D]
[C]nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
{end_of_chorus}
{start_of_part: Outtro}
[Em] [A/E]
[Em] [A/E]
[Em]
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