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 want to 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 on split milk, sex and weight
It all will fall, fall right into place

Oh, gotta see, gotta know right now
What's that writing on your everything
It isn't anything at all

Early, early in the morning
It pulls all on down my sore feet
I want to 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


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  • +8
    General Comment

    gravity is a metaphor for fate. and in the end everything will fall in to place. and you cant escape that and everything you do in life will all come together in the end.. and some people gotta see gotta know right now what there fate is.. etc. get it?

    CONTROLDbyhatredon September 11, 2002   Link
  • +4
    General Comment

    I think this song is about the troubles that wiegh on people shoulders... And things will work themselves out? Yeah... hmm

    XxJesxXon June 20, 2002   Link
  • +2
    General Comment

    i like this song :)

    sparkling_rageon August 06, 2002   Link
  • +2
    General Comment

    stupid gravity it holds me down

    beautifulon August 18, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    A suprisingly upbeat, graceful song for Modest Mouse. Perhaps about how those special people in your life can make the world finally make sense to you.

    Victoronehalfon August 11, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    gravity

    OurLastGoodbyeon August 15, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    early morning musings

    lunatic96on August 21, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    i can't believe this song ended up in a miller genuine draft commercial...

    obiwanmpon May 04, 2003   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    claps lets hear it for modest mouse! great song.

    Dontaskquestionson July 08, 2003   Link
  • +1
    My Interpretation

    I think this is one of the most literal Mouse songs. But it's about an intangible element, gravity, so a lot of people are reading into it with the concepts of fate (which of course is part of the beauty of art, that each person interprets it differently). To me it's simply a commentary on the absurdity of gravity itself. We can't physically see gravity, yet it's what makes our lives as we know them possible.

    DirigiblePlumon August 27, 2010   Link

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