This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Take it away, I never thought I’d let it grow
This cancer inside, the villain plays the victim so well
Make me believe, I drink the lies, this suicide
Just put me to sleep, fall over me
Lies, lies, lies
I taste the
Lies, lies, lies
Fight, while I’m alive
I see you now
No less than light
Break, you’re falling away
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Gravity dies
Buried alive, an innocence cannot withstand this
Language of lies, to poison all the words you swallow
Wait for the scream, you realize it’s all a lie
And still you betray, I’ll throw you away
Lies, lies, lies
I drink the
Lies, lies, lies
Fight, while I’m alive
I see you now
No less than light
Break, you’re falling away
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Gravity dies
Fight, while I’m alive
I see you now
No less than light
Break, you’re falling away
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Gravity dies
I feel you now
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Your gravity dies
This cancer inside, the villain plays the victim so well
Make me believe, I drink the lies, this suicide
Just put me to sleep, fall over me
Lies, lies, lies
I taste the
Lies, lies, lies
Fight, while I’m alive
I see you now
No less than light
Break, you’re falling away
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Gravity dies
Buried alive, an innocence cannot withstand this
Language of lies, to poison all the words you swallow
Wait for the scream, you realize it’s all a lie
And still you betray, I’ll throw you away
Lies, lies, lies
I drink the
Lies, lies, lies
Fight, while I’m alive
I see you now
No less than light
Break, you’re falling away
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Gravity dies
Fight, while I’m alive
I see you now
No less than light
Break, you’re falling away
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Gravity dies
I feel you now
Gravity lies
I feel it die
Your gravity dies
Lyrics submitted by i.writer
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I think its him not wanting to fight anymore and hes asking God to just kill him because he cant take it anymore.
The ''Gravity'' is supposed to be God and he feels like hes floating away from him to where hes alone and helpless. Kinda like space?? Idk. This is prob. the hardest song ive ever tried to interpret
Its about fighting before death, about living because gravity holds us down its a metaphor for the things that hold us back, hold us down,
Fight, while I’m alive I see you now No less than light Break, you’re falling away Gravity lies I feel it die Gravity dies
@Dirtdogger6 totally agree and that’s what I thought when I listened to it the first time.
Is it horrible this reminds me of my dad? Especially the line, "the villain plays the victim so well" because it's what he does with everyone in his life. Abuses, then blames. It sounds like the song is about self-hatred/wrath/abusive depression, but the songs on this album are harder for me to figure out than the previous four.
@stickfigureparadise <br /> Also, the line, "I see it now, no less than light" should be "no lesson learned"
@stickfigureparadise Nevermind; I'm hearing things.