Gravity

Gravity mp3

our tiny dinner table

Lyrics

An apple and a half moon
Feel the same way when they move
Can’t help it, what they do
Cause they’re subject
They’re subject to
What keeps the earth going around the sun
You call it gravity, I call it love
 
I look out the window
On a plane to Chicago
All the people down below
Have far less
Far to fall
What keeps the earth going around the sun
You call it gravity, I call it love 

Since we feign no hypotheses
We must conclude that we agree
There is a force that acts across
The distance between two bodies
Because there’s a force that acts across
The distance between two bodies 

At our tiny dinner table
There’s an ever so slight pull
Can’t explain it but I’m thankful
That there’s something 
There’s something
That keeps the earth going around the sun
You call it gravity, I call it love
What keeps the earth going around the sun
You call it gravity, I call it love

comments

you've been reading conor's physics textbooks again, haven't you? ; )

it is so awesome to hear a new DK song! i feel like there hasn't been a new one in a really long time, so i'm really happy to hear this one.

things i like about this song:

1. i just like the concept. it's rich but you don't overdo it. i was writing a song a while ago and it had a line about how "love is radiation", but it was in the same sort of celestial context. i also like the idea that the earth and the sun have an emotional attachment to one another.
2. i really like the line "can't explain it but i'm thankful". i love the rhyme with "table" and "pull". i also think that thankfulness as such is very rarely expressed in songs.
3. i love how the melody jumps up on "sun". it's my favorite bit of the melody. i thought it might be neat to go up on "love" in the same way on the first of the two choruses at the end. the melody is lovely all around, really.
4. i think this is a good use of the "chorus is really just two lines at the end of a stanza" structure. shorter choruses can be awesome. i often try to write these eight line epic monsters, but that can be exhausting for all concerned.
5. it might be too cute, but it might be fun to work in a deliberate descending line, as i think that would play well with the gravity theme.
6. just realized that gravitational attraction is things falling towards each other. in love, people "fall for" each other. nice symmetry, that.

Gabemcelwain 09:04, 14 February 2008 (PST)

I switched out the mp3 at the top of the page. I replace this Older version with the version we put on the myspace page.Conorl 06:57, 21 July 2008 (PDT)