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I am bought by the yard but worn by the foot
I am alive without breath and cold as death. I am never thirsty but always drinking.
I am a time for gathering crops. Remove the first three letters and I become an object you can wear.
The thunder comes before the lightning and the lightning comes before the cloud The rain dries all the land it touches wrapping the earth in a blood red shroud.
What do people spend a lot of money on every year, but never want to use?
I am a rock group with four members. All dead one was assassinated.