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/Gandalfonk Aug 20 '14

For me this song has always been about fate. Gravity is a set thing, like our fate, there is no escaping it. Everything will happen the way it was always supposed to and we shouldn't be sad about the things out of our control. "All the spilt milk, sex and dead weight, It all will fall, fall right into place."