Mariah included “Languishing” as an interlude on her 2009 album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel. She told Paper magazine that the song was about a crisis of faith. “Something happened to me when I was 12. A couple things that were not so great,” she said. “One day I want to write a book about it.”
| Song | Remix | Run time |
|---|---|---|
| Languishing | Jump Smokers Remix
Produced by Jump Smokers |
4:36 |
If you could only see
That I was not put here for you
To judge me and dispute my in most truth
And after all these years of enmity, envy and tears
It's a shame you don't know me at all
I was wondering would you cry for me
If I told you that I couldn't breathe
If I was drowning, suffocating
If I told you that I couldn't breathe
Those ageless buried recollections
We transform them and select them
You have yours, I have mine that's fine
Why are we too torn to heal
Our stitches never disappear
I have mine, you have yours, I'm sure
I was wondering
Would you reach for me
If you saw that I was languishing
I was wondering would you cry for me
If I told you that I couldn't breathe
If I was drowning, suffocating
If I told you that I couldn't breathe
Written by Mariah Carey and James Wright.
Produced by Mariah Carey and James “Big Jim” Wright.
