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Sara Bareilles – Gravity Lyrics 14 years ago
After Mia Michaels choreographed a routine about addiction to this song on So You Think You Can Dance, Sara tweeted that she "didn't know 'Gravity' was about drugs" but that it was a beautiful dance, and on the Stripped recording she says it's about her "first horrible heartbreak", so I think it's definitely about an addictive *quality* in another person that she doesn't want to love but keeps loving rather than substance addiction. I'd also think that the music would be a bit more angry than sad if it were, but that's just me. Still a good interpretation, though.

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Sara Bareilles – Gravity Lyrics 14 years ago
Oh god the latter paragraph

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Sara Bareilles – Gravity Lyrics 14 years ago
Yeah, I keep thinking about this lyric... I totally understand and internalize the "drown in your love" part but I'm not quite sure what she means about "not feel your rain", this is a great interpretation.

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The Band Perry – If I Die Young Lyrics 14 years ago
I really don't think it is about the poem...
In the poem, she dies from freezing to death because she sang too much. Why the mention of a knife, then? And if it were about the poem, you'd think they'd include more about weaving, a mirror, shadows, etc.
All it really has in common is early virginal death and a river, which is a pretty common romantic (if tragic) theme.

I really think it's just an expression of romantic ideas of death more than anything else.

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