First, some thoughts about probable lyric mistakes. This is always thorny with Stipe, but I am pretty sure that it is "two ships sway.\' I am not at all certain that he is singing "holding my head straight," but I don\'t have a better answer. It is definitely "Gravity pulls me around," not "down" on the last verse. As to the meaning of the song, well, it\'s pretty ambiguous, but there\'s two hints. There is a famous Man Ray painting with a giant vagina looking thing in the sky. The other thing is that around this time, R.E.M. covered Pylon\'s "Crazy." This song is undoubtedly influenced by the Pylon song, "Gravity."
First, some thoughts about probable lyric mistakes. This is always thorny with Stipe, but I am pretty sure that it is "two ships sway.\' I am not at all certain that he is singing "holding my head straight," but I don\'t have a better answer. It is definitely "Gravity pulls me around," not "down" on the last verse. As to the meaning of the song, well, it\'s pretty ambiguous, but there\'s two hints. There is a famous Man Ray painting with a giant vagina looking thing in the sky. The other thing is that around this time, R.E.M. covered Pylon\'s "Crazy." This song is undoubtedly influenced by the Pylon song, "Gravity."