DonDiego is right on: the 1st verse really is a comment on theory of gravity--my H.S. freshman Science teacher liked to expand upon such concepts like: solid matter, i.e., abrick, can fall apart into it smallest particles and it's still going to be matter. Matter will never go away or disappear--then we'd segue into the concept of splitting the smallest particles to make atomic power--after a yr. of that, I was very "no nukes"even to this day! If that made anybody go, "What does this sh*t have do w/this song??", I saw Michael Stipe in an interview on MuchMusic around the time this song was popular and he explained how he wrote "Fall On Me" by splitting this song into 4 basic concepts! Whoa! Hey Mike, can't you just tell us peons in 1 or 2 paragraphs?!? I was thinking at the time, and now here we all are doing it! LOL Enjoy the song, folks--that's all it's about sometimes.
DonDiego is right on: the 1st verse really is a comment on theory of gravity--my H.S. freshman Science teacher liked to expand upon such concepts like: solid matter, i.e., abrick, can fall apart into it smallest particles and it's still going to be matter. Matter will never go away or disappear--then we'd segue into the concept of splitting the smallest particles to make atomic power--after a yr. of that, I was very "no nukes"even to this day! If that made anybody go, "What does this sh*t have do w/this song??", I saw Michael Stipe in an interview on MuchMusic around the time this song was popular and he explained how he wrote "Fall On Me" by splitting this song into 4 basic concepts! Whoa! Hey Mike, can't you just tell us peons in 1 or 2 paragraphs?!? I was thinking at the time, and now here we all are doing it! LOL Enjoy the song, folks--that's all it's about sometimes.