“Shrink” is the ninth and final track of their fourth album “Nighttime Birds”.
This song has a very melancholic sound and might be about an unanswered love, but not just a crush, a really deep, sincere, and pure love which causes a huge pain.
To feel this great urge
To hold and embrace you
I slowly dry out
I shrink and shrink
Until I'm gone
Nothing to make out of me
Oh what the hell went wrong
My heart gets pulled out
Into your direction
It's no use
You have forsaken me
Shrink was written by Anneke Van Giersbergen.
Shrink was produced by Siggi Bemm.
The Gathering released Shrink on Fri Jun 06 1997.