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Crawling With Idiot Lyrics — Elbow | Dork

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Crawling With Idiot Lyrics

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Crawling With Idiot

From Cast of Thousands2003

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Lyrics

Crawling With Idiot

It's crawling with idiot I'm itching to leave I'm soft with fatigue I need something I've never seen anything quite like you In here Come on it's not serious I just need arms tonight (ooh) You're blue collar pride And you're loose cotton cool You're wilting a little Nothing grows down here (ooh) Come Smoke Heat Me and you (ooh) Come on it's not serious I just need arms tonight Tonight Tonight Tonight Tonight Tonight Just tonight Tonight Tonight Tonight Just tonight Tonight

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About this track

"Crawling With Idiot" is a song by Elbow from the album Cast of Thousands, released in 2003. The song was written by Guy Garvey, Craig Potter, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp. It was produced by Ben Hillier, Elbow.

Elbow profile →Cast of Thousands album →Track profile →

Track 9 of 11UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

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Craig Potter— 360 credits as songwriter & producer →
Mark Potter— 233 credits as songwriter & producer →
Pete Turner— 235 credits as songwriter & producer →
Richard Jupp— 176 credits as songwriter & producer →
Pete Turner— 235 credits as songwriter & producer →
Chris Worsey— 216 credits as songwriter →
Ian Burdge— 358 credits as songwriter →

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