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Cracker

Withering

Release date: 1996

From Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation
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"Withering" is a track by Cracker, from the album Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, released 1996. Full lyrics are available below.

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Withering

[Verse 1]

What are you doing withering away?

Yes, I've heard you've lost your will to play

Whatever happened to those fluid movements

You were so proud of in those intimate moments?

[Refrain]

What about the girl you left at the altar?

Now, now, now she is planning your funeral

Didn't you learn anything at that protest rally

When you and yours were flooding the capital

[Verse 2]

What about your days of glory

When your life was anything but boring?

Now you're making these morbid phone calls

Your friends, they gather to cuss and console

[Refrain]

What were you doing in that awful decade

After the news broke and those murderous policies were made?

What were you doing running around

When I was here for you well away from that crowd?

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From Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation

1996
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Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation
Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation
R.E.M.
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1996
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