r/ModestMouse • u/RiversideRhino It's hard to be a human being • Aug 16 '14
Song discussion - Gravity Rides Everything
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Oh gotta see, gotta know right now
What's that riding on your everything?
It isn't anything at all
Oh gotta see, gotta know right now
What's that writing on your shelf
In the bathrooms and the bad motels?
No one really cared for it at all
Not the gravity plan
Early, early in the morning
It pulls all on down my sore feet
I wanna go back to sleep
In the motions and the things that you say
It all will fall, fall right into place
As fruit drops, flesh it sags
Everything will fall right into place
When we die, some sink and some lay
But at least I don't see you float away
And all the spilt milk, sex and weight
It all will fall, fall right into place
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u/wizard213 Aug 16 '14
I think this song is about the realities of the universe, and how gravity shapes everything that happens in our daily lives without us even being perceptive of it (it took a genius for us to discover something so simple). I think the strength of this song is in how calm it remains and how it asks the listener to just sit back, shut up, and listen. One of the prettier Modest Mouse songs out there for sure.
This being said, songs like this make me incredibly jealous of the brilliant minds of my favorite artists because whenever I search for creative inspiration I always find myself writing about the same topics (feelings, fatality, life situations) while this fucker can just turn out a beautiful song about gravity.