Song Description
Acoustic rock song about mortality.
| Song Length |
4:32 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Folk - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Pleasant, Gloomy |
Subject |
Doom, Life |
| Similar Artists |
Wilco, Elvis Costello |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Withering
Martin Carpenter
Verse 1
I?m awkward as a mixed up and turned around school kid
Trying to force fit his sweat pants into his jeans
I?m lost as Columbus and landing on the wrong shore
I can tell what I know but I don?t know what anything means
Chorus
I?m withering faster than the form of a limb
After it?s burned and then touched by the kiss of the wind
Verse 2
Drink till it?s gone, shoot it after its dead and then go
Strip mine the whole of the area stink of the farm
Leave behind all of the boxes from stuff that I bought
Take what I can from the building then pull the alarm
Bridge
I know I?d die in humiliation
If I knew half of the things that I miss
But I still try, I swear to God
To try and make sense out of this, I try
Verse 3
Just what kind of blinding rescue is sitting right here
Hearing the tripe that is dribbling off of my chin
Knowing I just want someone who knows who I am
Who sees through my walls and my hair and my breath and my skin