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"
If you don't want me to destroy you
Take a leaf out of my book
Turn it 'round and have a look
Because I don't want you to destroy me
I'll commit myself to be
In and out of every tree
Gravity
You just hold me down so quietly
You just hold me back
When the insects fly all around you
Do you reach and aim a hit
Or do you lie around a bit?
And when the animals gather 'round you
Do you ask them for the time
Or do you run away and whine?
Gravity
You just hold me down so quietly
You just hold me back
Gravity
You just hold me down so quietly
You just pull me down to Earth
Let me go into the depths of your infinity
I can sense your presence in the vicinity
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
Take a leaf out of my book
Turn it 'round and have a look
Because I don't want you to destroy me
I'll commit myself to be
In and out of every tree
Gravity
You just hold me down so quietly
You just hold me back
When the insects fly all around you
Do you reach and aim a hit
Or do you lie around a bit?
And when the animals gather 'round you
Do you ask them for the time
Or do you run away and whine?
Gravity
You just hold me down so quietly
You just hold me back
Gravity
You just hold me down so quietly
You just pull me down to Earth
Let me go into the depths of your infinity
I can sense your presence in the vicinity
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
La la la, la la la, sha la la la la
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the rhymes in the verse are a bit..weak. but i love the chorus, the way its sung. "Let me go into the depths of your infinity I can sense your presence in the vicinity" awsome. dont really now what its about
Gruff: "Gravity and how shit it is because it would be better if we were all floating...gravity just holds me back man."
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