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Gravity's Union Lyrics
I flew headfirst into the light
Weightless, crisscrossing, precise
In a dream, or was it life?
Inside this door all answers wait
So saddle up my steed
Where the lies live way beneath
Oh my, I think I've made a mess
This is all my fault, it's what I've wished
And I was wrong to let you go
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me
No time to change my life in the air before
Our maximum reach outweighed
Apart, pictureless retreat
The terror meets the truth, no longer who
We now know what we must do
Shadow dancing through the roof
Contact the life you used to know
Gravity, the world in tow
And I was wrong to let you go
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me
Driver, may I sleep with you tonight?
Numbered uncertainty
City limits, shoe strewn diary
The roar of the engine won't cease
All of my love and heart spilled in this car
Picture me the perfect enemy
Our lives are one, colliding up and beyond
In this fatal possibility
I am your, I am your prize
We wave welcome aboard
We wave welcome aboard
In my eyes I drown you
He has forgotten his place
Bait the hook and let it sink
No cause for alarm
Enter the master,
I am Dr. Straight
Scalpel, keep that lung in place
Nurse, IV needs refilling
Now watch the brain
Responding quite normal,
This life I can save
Every man has a point where he breaks or conjoins
Among pressure that floods to complicate
Matters close to the heart will define who we are
Do we love? Do we hate? We are only the meat.
We understood the unmistakeable
Two romantics on holiday and how they stole our love
Caged,
Locked in perpetual motion
Carving our wounds wide open
But you let the wrong one in
Weightless, crisscrossing, precise
In a dream, or was it life?
So saddle up my steed
Where the lies live way beneath
This is all my fault, it's what I've wished
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me
Our maximum reach outweighed
Apart, pictureless retreat
We now know what we must do
Shadow dancing through the roof
Gravity, the world in tow
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me
Numbered uncertainty
City limits, shoe strewn diary
The roar of the engine won't cease
Picture me the perfect enemy
Our lives are one, colliding up and beyond
In this fatal possibility
We wave welcome aboard
In my eyes I drown you
Bait the hook and let it sink
No cause for alarm
Enter the master,
I am Dr. Straight
Nurse, IV needs refilling
Now watch the brain
Responding quite normal,
This life I can save
Among pressure that floods to complicate
Matters close to the heart will define who we are
Do we love? Do we hate? We are only the meat.
Two romantics on holiday and how they stole our love
Locked in perpetual motion
Carving our wounds wide open
But you let the wrong one in
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stopstart On Jan 28, 2013
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This song takes us back before the car crash in Number City, revealing the conversation that Meri and Sirius had before their tragic accident. Meri has decided that she cannot stay with Sirius, and that even before he had left on his fateful mission to the Keywork, she was not satisfied with their relationship and constantly feeling like she was placed second behind his research. She reveals her relationship with Colten and the fact that she is pregnant with his child; upon hearing the news, Sirius is overcome with emotion and loses control of the car, leading to the accident.
We then move forward to the couple in the hospital, where a surgeon named Dr. Straight tends to Sirius's injuries and saves his life. However, Meri's injuries prove too great and the medical team cannot save her or her baby.
I think this may be the masterpiece of Descension. It ties together such a great combination of different riffs; it really hearkens back to their GA:1 days, but in such a different way that it's impossible to not see the progression in tone and the additions of new movements on their guitar playing. I think the coolest part has to be
Has he forgotten his place Bait the hook and let it sink No cause for alarm Enter the master, I am Dr. Straight
Scalpel keep that lung in place Nurse, IV needs refilling Now watch the brain Responding quite normal, this life I can save
Every man has a point, where he breaks or conjoins Among pressure that floods to complicate Matters close to the heart will define who we are Do we love. Do we hate. We are only the meat.
This is so classic, core Coheed that I want to throw out Second Stage and put this in its place as the benchmark for what Coheed is. The simple character and scene with Dr. Straight is powerful and just badass, and the part about how "we are only the meat" seems to me to be an analysis of the Doctor's point of view, namely that Sirius and Meri are only meat, just patients, and he has decided to focus on Sirius because he is the viable life to save. I love the lines about how "Every man has a point where he breaks or conjoins, among pressure that floods to complicate" just because it so perfectly, beautifully articulates something I've been dealing with for a while. Not good, not great, but nearly perfect writing on this song. If this is their new standard I think we'll be very happy with the future of Coheed. One among the fucking fence, son.
Words cannot describe how utterly right on the money you are.
Words cannot describe how utterly right on the money you are.
@Coaler I think you did a great job with some of the interpretations but I feel the urge to throw in my two cents on a few things. First...
@Coaler I think you did a great job with some of the interpretations but I feel the urge to throw in my two cents on a few things. First...
Every man has a point, where he breaks or conjoins Among pressure that floods to complicate Matters close to the heart will define who we are Do we love. Do we hate. We are only the meat.
Every man has a point, where he breaks or conjoins Among pressure that floods to complicate Matters close to the heart will define who we are Do we love. Do we hate. We are only the meat.
I don't think this is Dr. Straight so much as Sirius talking. Sirius is conscious during the operation and see's Meri and her baby die. So, "Every man has a point, where he breaks...
I don't think this is Dr. Straight so much as Sirius talking. Sirius is conscious during the operation and see's Meri and her baby die. So, "Every man has a point, where he breaks or conjoins" I feel represents Sirius breaking (Before and after the accident) both at the news Meri gives him as well as her death and the death of her baby confirming everything she was saying was true as these things haunt him later in the album. "Among pressure that floods to complicate" and "Matters close to the heart will define who we are" would be Sirius realizing just what his ambition and research cost him. His life's ambition cost him the love of his life. Finally we get to "Do we love? Do we hate? We are only the meat". For me this is Sirius' anger that Dr. Straight saved him, survivors guilt more or less. "Do we love? Do we hate?" would be Sirius asking do my feelings matter to the doctor as he feels he threw his life away and wants Meri to live and "We are only the meat" being the answer that no, your feelings don't matter because you were the one that could be saved.
"Caged, Locked in perpetual motion Carving our wounds wide open But you let the wrong one in"
I cried as the hair stood up on my arms....this song is genius
@Avenged_Death Yep. 11 years on, and I feel like I'm standing arms outstretched in the pouring rain listening to this part.
@Avenged_Death Yep. 11 years on, and I feel like I'm standing arms outstretched in the pouring rain listening to this part.