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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 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
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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"Early, early in the morning/It pulls all on down my sore feet/I want to go back to sleep" --- not wanting to get out of bed and "come back to earth" (hence: not wanting to feel the "gravity" in the song).
Gravity has a double meaning in the song - gravity also means "seriousness" - the "gravity plan" is the serious shit that him and his long-term partner were fighting about, just before the makeup sex. When he says "what's the writing on your shelf" he's talking about her diary or something similar - somewhere she writes her thoughts / there is some tension in the relationship, they can't freely discuss.
"on your shelf --- In the bathrooms and the bad motels" - wondering if the tension is to do with a pregnancy and he's talking about a pregnancy test kit, sitting on the shelf in the bathroom, and he sees it every morning when he gets up to take a piss.
"As fruit drops, flesh it sags... everything will fall into place" - fruit dropping is talking about birth; flesh sagging is about age... and he's wondering if he's going to have a lasting relationship that will stand the test of time.
I can't believe 110 comments and none of them are even remotely similar to this.
Yeah this makes a lot more sense. He's saying he'll love her forever, until death, no matter what shape she's in.
Also sorry about my language but i feel that and im pissed off at a lot of people right now.
What's that riding on your everything?
It isn't anything at all
You have to know right now
What the meaning of your life is.
It is meaningless.
Oh, got to see, got to 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
You have to know right now
The book in your house
That everyone knows and has (aka the bible)
No one can agree on it (different religions)
And it doesn’t fit into reality.
Early, early in the morning
It pulls all on down my sore feet
I want to go back to sleep
When you wake up
And you think about all you have done, and still yet to do
You want to give up and quit.
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
Everything you do, everything you say
Happens for a reason.
As time goes on, we get older
Everything will explain itself then.
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
We all die, and we are all eventually just memories.
But those memories will never go away.
And all the little things that everyone is focused on
Will become meaningless in the end, and resolve themselves.
In 4 lines:
Even though things may be bad,
They will fix themselves and everything will get better.
Everything happens for an unknown reason,
So live your life to the fullest while you still can, and don’t worry about the little insignificances.
This juxtaposition of lines about universal sweeping forces that we cannot overcome (death & gravity) with lines that talk about forces that are purely conceptual human inventions (like afterlife and good and bad) is intriguing…especially when you look at the last line:
"When we die, some sink and some lay
But I won't stop until you float away"
it's kind of lovely...to me it says: hey, yeah I know we don't go to heaven, we all eventually die and we'll become part of the earth and we don’t need to imagine we’ll float off somewhere. But I love you (my friend or my love) so much that “I won’t stop until you float away” it acknowledges a poetic longing. Maybe in a way life is richer if we admit there is an element of the unknown in our future and yes in our deaths…if anyone’s going to float away it will be you (my friend, my love, etc).
Our little lives may be insignificant when measured against forces like gravity...and perhaps they should be...but I’m going to keep concepts of love and goodness floating on…give into life's flow.
Anyone else have thoughts on that last line???
What's that riding on your everything?"
These lines indicate urgency and importance. Because at no point do these lyrics refer to any individual "You(r)", and because the lyrics deal with universal themes rather then specific moments in time, the word "your" I believe literally means, "our" but the author has used the more colloquial "your" to close psychic distance. "riding on" is a way of saying, "dependent on" or in the case of a bet, the value placed on. So the first two lines could be read literally as,
"We desperately want to know
what's the value of everything."
The author then uses irony to contrast this urgent search for meaning with the following line, "It isn't anything at all."
This ironic conclusion is mirrored in the next stanza when he talks about "...writing on your shelf. In bathrooms and bad motels." I think it's safe to interpret that, "writing," as the Bible. After all what other writing is the audience likely familiar with, deals with universal themes, and can probably be found by the author in bad motels and bathroom shelves? Only the bible. Again the author explains away this stanza, and the bible in particular with irony, "No one really cared for it at all." In other words, "we ('no one' means 'we' or 'I' but abdicates responsibility) really didn't care for the bible at all." And to explain why we/he didn't care for it at all the author adds, "Not the gravity plan." Which is probably the most obtuse line in the song. However, the meaning of the phrase, "gravity plan" can be gleaned from the rest of the song. We know that gravity is persistent and ever present. And we know from the title of the song, that "Gravity Rides Everything." And if we extend the conclusion that "ride" can be used to mean: give value to, we can conclude that gravity gives meaning to everything, and that the "gravity plan" is this: nothing has any value at all.
This is confirmed in the next stanza,
"Early, early in the morning
It pulls all on down my sore feet
I want to go back to sleep"
"It," is gravity, that persistent force that, "pulls down on (our) sore feet." The author is confirming what the audience has probably often wanted, "early in the morning," more rest, an extended break from life. (like going back to bed or taking a half hour to post some crap on the internet)
"In the motions and the things that you say" This speaks to both our words and actions, which the author believes will "fall right into place" by the persistence forces of the universe (gravity's plan). It's critical to notice the choice of the word, "fall." The author did not chose, "pull" or "attracted to" or "forced." Falling has a connotation of effortlessness. The author contrasts this to the first stanza, where there is a desperation to the need for understanding. "Gravity's plan" is effortless. In gravity's plan things don't just fall into place, they "fall right into place." Effortlessly things are put into place, not by desperate searching for meaning, or by the bible, but by the persistent and effortless forces of the universe. By understanding this we see that the song is not nihilistic but accepting of the fact that "flesh" will "sag," "milk" will "spill," "sex," and other weighty things (like the universal nature of death), will "fall" effortlessly "right" as they should.
You know what, forget it... music does this to me. I can never really explain how it really makes me feel in words. It has a way of doing that even without the lyrics.