“Inertia creeps” by Massive Attack

Virgin sent "Inertia Creeps" out in 1998 as the fourth and final single from Mezzanine, the third album by English electronic outfit Massive Attack. Robert Del Naja sings lead and wrote it with Grant Marshall and Andrew Vowles, working from a relationship of his that had just come apart. As he told it, the song is about knowing you should get out of something and being too lazy or too weak to go, lying to yourself and to the other person while the room closes in, lurching forward and dragging yourself back at once.

Neil Davidge produced and arranged it with the band, and Mark "Spike" Stent mixed. It sold the least of the album's four singles, charting only in New Zealand, where it reached 16, yet it has been singled out as one of Mezzanine's best.

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