Is John Mayer’s Gravity A Song About Integrity?
I always gets me excited when a popstar sings/writes/performs something that preaches truth, regardless of what they meant by it. That’s what I love about art: you can misconstrue it all you want and no one can tell you you’re wrong ;-)
Gravity is quickly becoming my favorite John Mayer song (perhaps it’s a “flavor of the week” type infatuation, we’ll see). I’m not sure what he means by it, but if Gravity is talking about my innate human nature, he’s dead on. Check it out, short, sweet, and thick with meaning. Brilliant song writing.
I posted the lyrics below the video:
Gravity, is working against me
And Gravity, wants to bring me down
Oh, I’ve never known what makes this man
With all the love that this heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all awayWhoa, Gravity is working against me
And Gravity, it wants to bring me down
Oh, twice as much ain’t twice as good
And cant sustain like one half could
It’s wanting more that’s gonna set me to my kneesTwice as much ain’t twice as good
And can’t sustain like one half could
Its wanting more that’s gonna set me to my kneesWhoa Gravity, stay the hell away from me
And Gravity, has taken better man than me
Now how can that be
Just keep me where the light is
Dude, yours is my favorite blog. Keep us thinking hard. Art imitates life imitates art, and nowhere is that more visible than in art. Deep, huh?
Where did this video come from? I’ve never seen John perform like this.
“Gravity” is the little sister to “Vultures”–both come from the same parent, but one is older and wiser than the other.
Matthew - No idea about where this came from. Not sure about it being the “little sister” of Vultures though, I’ll have to check that out. John Mayer has called this song “the most important song I’ve ever written”. Post on that coming soon.
Gravity is ambiguous, it could be that gravity is just the human nature of dissatisfaction. “Wanting more is gonna bring me to my knees.” Or maybe he’s talking about the whole taste of honey cliche in response to someone’s affect on him. But the lyrics in the first stanza suggest drug use. Somebody throws their life away, trying to stay where gravity won’t allow him- high.
But to me I think it describes the way I feel right now. In love with the most perfect woman and although I try to be optimistic, the rational side, gravity, “is trying to bring me down”