“Wither” is one of Dream Theater’s better ballads. John Petrucci wrote it as a way of conveying the writer’s block he sometimes experiences in writing music. I’ve found that it makes an excellent theme song for my graduate school experience. Soul crushing, to say the least.
Progarchy 
DT is magnificent.
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Indeed.
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