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{{Infobox song | {{Infobox song | ||
| Name = Gravity Will Bring You Down | | Name = Gravity Will Bring You Down | ||
| Cover = Rivers Cuomo Alone XI.jpg | |||
| Type = Demo | | Type = Demo | ||
| Artist = Rivers Cuomo | | Artist = Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Format = | | Format = | ||
| Length = | | Length = | ||
| Recorded = 2011 | | Recorded = [[2011]]—[[2014]] | ||
| Released = 2020 | | Released = [[2020]] | ||
| Writer = Rivers Cuomo | | Writer = Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Producer = | | Producer = | ||
| Line 12: | Line 13: | ||
| Album = Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | | Album = Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Album type = demo | | Album type = demo | ||
}} | }} | ||
"'''Gravity Will Bring You Down'''" (also known as "'''Gravity'''," formerly "'''Supergirl'''" and "'''Gravity's Gon' Bring You Down'''") is a song by [[Rivers Cuomo]], demoed in contention for what would eventually become {{PN|Weezer}} ninth album, ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]''. | |||
===Appearances=== | |||
*''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' (2020) | |||
*''[[The Best of the Demos]]'' (2020) | |||
==Overview== | |||
"Gravity Will Bring You Down" was, at one point, part of ''[[Ecce Homo]]'', {{PN|Rivers Cuomo}} earlier draft of the album concept that would eventually morph into ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]''. In an ''[[Ecce Homo]]'' draft document included in the ''Alone XI'' compilation, notes about the song were listed in relation to the album's main character, [[Sebastian]]. "Gravity" is listed as part of the album's first act, with the note: "Talking to himself. Schizochronicity rooted in the death of his father?" The song's lyrics are accompanied by additional descriptive notes: | |||
<pre>(age 20): | |||
a. Talking to himself in his pod. | |||
b. lack of faith in his intellect and talents. | |||
c. Had a famous father who died? Who somehow failed? Came up short? | |||
d. Flight of Icarus. | |||
e. Sebastian’s father, Daedalus</pre> | |||
"Gravity" was described by fans who heard it at fan [[focus groups]] in the years prior to the recording of ''EWBAITE'', but was not heard widely until Cuomo made it available for purchase on [[riverscuomo.com]] as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''. It also appeared, for a time, in the fan-curated compilation ''[[The Best of the Demos]]'', briefly [[riverscuomo.com demos|sold]] on Cuomo's website. | |||
==Known recordings== | |||
{{Known recordings header}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]||poignant piano melody.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||1:19|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Supergirl|Supergirl 1.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:27|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Supergirl|Supergirl 2.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:19|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 3.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:06|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity|Gravity 4.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:06|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity's Gon' Bring You Down|Gravity's Gon' Bring You Down 5.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:07|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 6.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:21|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 7.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:11|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 8.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:12|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 9.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:05|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 10.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:00|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 11.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:00|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|cccccc|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 11 1.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:00|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Duplicate of <samp>Gravity Will Bring You Down 11.mp3</samp>}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 12.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||3:00|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Gravity Will Bring You Down|Gravity Will Bring You Down 13.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||2:55| | |||
*''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' | |||
*''[[The Best of the Demos]]''|Appears in ''Alone XI'' bundle twice}} | |||
}} | }} | ||
{{Known recordings footer}} | |||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
===Gravity Will Bring You Down (ver. 13)=== | |||
===Gravity Will Bring You Down (ver. | <poem>Chained up in your dungeon | ||
Mice munchin' on your tasty bum | |||
<poem> | You're turnin' into a skeleton | ||
Chained up in your dungeon | |||
The conquistadors have clearly won | The conquistadors have clearly won | ||
I bet you wish you'd never fucked | |||
With the Spanish Inquisition | |||
I bet you wish you never fucked | |||
Some battles you can never win | Some battles you can never win | ||
Some laws you never break | Some laws you'll never break | ||
Not every man is a Superman | Not every man is a Superman | ||
Not every girl is a Supergirl | Not every girl is a Supergirl | ||
So cut your coupons while you can | So cut your coupons while you can | ||
Gravity | Gravity will bring you down | ||
There must've been some Einstein | |||
Designing that first aeroplane | |||
He kicked some ass in the Ivy League | |||
Acing LSATs and the GREs | |||
But the Hindenburg crashed on the ground | But the Hindenburg crashed on the ground | ||
Blew up like an atom bomb | Blew up like an atom bomb | ||
The children cried as they looked on | The children cried as they looked on | ||
Watching their | Watching their daddy burn | ||
Not every man is a Superman | Not every man is a Superman | ||
Not every girl is a Supergirl | Not every girl is a Supergirl | ||
So cut your coupons while you can | So cut your coupons while you can | ||
Gravity | Gravity will bring you down | ||
Learn not to care | Learn not to care | ||
Learn not to | Learn not to starve | ||
Learn not to hurt at all | Learn not to hurt at all | ||
Learn not to reap | |||
Learn not to try | Learn not to try | ||
When you eventually fall | When you eventually fall | ||
Not every man is a Superman | Not every man is a Superman | ||
Not every girl is a Supergirl | Not every girl is a Supergirl | ||
So cut your coupons while you can | So cut your coupons while you can | ||
Gravity will bring you down | Gravity will bring you down | ||
</poem> | |||
</poem> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' | *''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' | ||