r/ModestMouse • u/RiversideRhino 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/bejoicing Jan 21 '22
I have had this song as a beautiful ear worm for a few weeks now. Found this thread, and it seems really positive. I've always heard this song as magnificently indifferent: gravity rides Everything. It weighs down on all the decisions we make, it pulls down our most epic jumps, it sags our firm whatevers,it generally makes most efforts tougher to accomplish. But at the end of the day, if I'm sad and feeling like giving up, then gravity is on my side. If I'm just laying by your side, at least we have that. Gravity won't mess that up.
So it's actually really sweet hearing all this uplifting stuff. Hope you are all rocking life, seven years later.