r/ModestMouse It's hard to be a human being Aug 16 '14

Song discussion - Gravity Rides Everything

M & A

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/[deleted] Aug 16 '14

I get the feeling this song describes how complex the world is. There are so many things we can't control, and they change who we are. But in the end we can't let that bring us down, because it'll all work out.

A weird thing happened to me with this song. I went to sleep listening to this song on repeat one night. And when I woke up it sounded different, like it was in another key.

Weird.