John Mayer: Gravity Meaning

Song Released: 2007

Gravity Lyrics

Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away

Oh Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to...

1. anonymous

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   May 8th 2011 !⃝

   To me is a song about the struggle of addiction.
2. anonymous

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   Mar 10th 2011 !⃝

   I find it really cool that even though sometimes artists don't see it they are singing/crying out for the truth of God. NO ONE that is human can escape the fact that we have a hole in our heart/spirit that needs to be filled. A lot of people try to fill it with the things of the world, but no one will find true peace untill they surrender to God and know He is the only one who can supply all your needs. Gravity to me in this song is Satan. Gravity is working against me. Satan is working against me. Gravity wants to bring me down. Satan wants to bring me down. Gravity stay the Hell away from me. Satan stay the Hell away from me. And keep me where the Light is. keep me where Jesus is. Keep me where the light is. I love it. He is spreading Christianity through a simple song like this, just with different words and he doesn't even know it! God gave him a great voice and I love this song! Thanks God for being so great! Praise You :)
3. anonymous

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   Mar 8th 2011 !⃝

   I believe this song is talking about possibly being with someone, but wanting to be with some one else. For example: "Oh I'll never know what makes this man
   With all the love that his heart can stand
   Dream of ways to throw it all away". Could possibly feel remorse for having a person that loves them but some how they are thinking of someone else. They know its not right but "gravity" meaning another persons charisma always lures him in. "Just keep me the were the light is" meaning keep me on the right path, and not follow his instincts of cheating in a more emotional way.
   
   
4. anonymous

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   Jan 14th 2011 !⃝

   Its about the temptation to cheat. The twice as much that cant sustain him is the other lover. The second woman. He knows that it wont fulfil him as much as his wife/girlfriend can: his other "half." The desire to want more than what he has is analogous to gravity, the strongest force in physics. It pulls him down because he knows its wrong.
5. Dee90

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   Oct 20th 2010 !⃝

   I think this song is for everyone who is constantly battling between evil and good.. its about carrying burdens and wanting to do whats right.. its about our never ending struggle to survive and even be content if not really happy.
   
   When he says "keep me where the light is" hes just begging life to not be so mean.. and hasty to cast him away.. I cant help but picture him walking through a dark tunnel and looking at the light in the end.. remembering what it was like to be there.
6. anonymous

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   Feb 11th 2010 !⃝

   I think that this song is about the weight of a heart to a person. Its how heavy a loving heart can be on someone.
   
   If you love someone too much, it can be too much for someone to handle:
   
   "Twice as much ain't twice as good
   And can't sustain like one half could
   It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees"
   
   The part of sustaining, I believe, is how well that person could hold themself up if they didn't love that much, and that is the reason that twice as much love doesn't mean its twice as good, because it makes the heart too heavy to bear.
   
   Especially if you don't know if they love you back, so you may want to forget it and move on, but you can't do anything but love that person and it hurts and weighs you down:
   
   "Oh, I'll never know what makes this man
   With all the love that his heart can stand
   Dream of ways to throw it all away."
   
   To get rid of that love so that it doesn't hurt anymore and so that he can keep moving on.
   
   
   "Gravity, stay the hell away from me
   And gravity has taken better men than me."
   
   Here it may mean that stronger people have been weighed down crushed by there love for another person.
7. anonymous

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   Sep 3rd 2009 !⃝

   This song is actually about how he has been fighting his whole life to stay away from drugs and other things that most people in his situation get into.
8. hurt_enough

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   Nov 24th 2008 !⃝

   Wrt the previous comment...i don't think that you can say that someone else's interpretation is "wrong". That's the whole beauty of music and lyrics - that what resonates as meaning for YOU may not necessarily ring true for someone else. This site is called lyric INTERPRETATION...NOT lyrics WHAT THE SONG REALLY MEANS!...if it were - we would just ask the person who wrote the song what they meant. I love this site coz I love reading about how one song has such a multitude of meaning for anyone - and how that always resonates with something that they are going through at the time...
   
   i think this song - gravity - is just about something that brings you down - like duh! - but that could be drugs, love, sex, friendship etc etc...i always love listening to this song when I'm feeling down. Somehow it helps lift me up. just the idea that someone else has been affected so deeply by something [whatever it is] that they've likened it to gravity...that for me is powerful. I didn't know what the word was for that feeling - but now I do...it's gravity.....great song!
9. anonymous

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   Oct 29th 2008 !⃝

   This song is about a heroin addiction! You guys are all wrong! He's talking about the more a person uses it will never be as good as it was when he first started and never lasts as long... (twice as much ain't twice as good...) and also (its wanting more its gonna send me to my knees) that's an obvious one... and (keep me where the light is) ... That one doesn't need to be explained either.

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10. anonymous

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    Sep 21st 2008 !⃝

    I think when he talks about gravity he really is talking about dead. "gravity has taken better men than me" meaning they are dead, underground, submitting to gravity. But he wants more than what this life has to offer but has come to the realization that it isn't possible "it's wanting more that's going to bring me to my knees." Then he kind of says that he doesn't want to die by saying "keep me where the light is"

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11. anonymous

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    Aug 17th 2008 !⃝

    This song is, like most Mayer tunes, about love. He's describing the gravity that is pulling him out of that first infatuation stage of the relationship, and towards something that's longer lasting ("twice as much, ain't twice is good...can't sustain, like one half could"). However, at the same time, he feels some nostalgia for that first part of the relationship ("keep me where the light is"), and a longing for the deeper love that he hopes will come with time (...wanting more, that's gonna send me to my knees..). Temptation to cheat is rampant in the meantime, though he knows on a conscious level that he will only destroy his chances of true love by doing so ("...dream of ways to through it all away...").
12. anonymous

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    Aug 31st 2007 !⃝

    "Oh Gravity
    Is working against me
    And gravity
    Wants to bring me down
    
    Oh twice as much
    Ain’t twice as good
    And can't sustain
    Like one half could
    It's wanting more
    It's gonna send me to my knees"
    
    
    My boyfriend believes this song stands for the government's idea of more police, safer communities. "Gravity" replaces "authority".

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