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Rushing to see/know everything right now, gravity is the force that slows you down, but it ‘isn’t anything at all’ – unless you pay attention to it.
There’s a buddhist concept at work through the entire song. The rush to know/to be/to write on the world, contrasted with the desire for rest, the kn...
[Verse 1]
Oh, gotta see, gotta know right now
What's that riding on your everything?
It isn't anything at all
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Early, early in the morning
It pulls all on down my sore feet
I wanna go back to sleep
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
Oh, gotta see, gotta know right now
What's that riding on your everything?
It isn't anything at all
[Pre-Chorus]
Early, early in the morning
It pulls all on down my sore feet
I wanna go back to sleep
[Chorus]
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
Gravity Rides Everything was written by Isaac Brock.
Gravity Rides Everything was produced by Brian Deck.
Modest Mouse released Gravity Rides Everything on Tue Jun 13 2000.