Gravity Will Bring You Down
| "Gravity Will Bring You Down" | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demo by Rivers Cuomo | ||||||||||||||
| Album | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | |||||||||||||
| Released | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | |||||||||||||
| Status | Released | |||||||||||||
| Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years track listing | ||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
"Gravity Will Bring You Down" (also known as "Gravity" and "Supergirl") is a song by Rivers Cuomo, demoed in contention for what would eventually become Everything Will Be Alright in the End.
Contents
Background
"Gravity Will Bring You Down" was included in the demo compilation Ecce Homo. The song was described by fans who heard it at listening parties prior to the recording of EWBAITE, but was not heard widely until it was released on riverscuomo.com as part of the compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years.
In the Ecce Homo document included in the bundle, the following notes were included about the song:
(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
Lyrics
Gravity Will Bring You Down (ver. 4)
Chained up in your dungeon
The conquistadors have clearly won
You're turnin' into a skeleton
Mice munchin' on your tasty bum
I bet you wish you never fucked
with the Spanish Inquisition
Some battles you can never win
Some laws you never break
Not every man is a Superman
Not every girl is a Supergirl
So cut your coupons while you can
Gravity's gon' bring you down
Must've been some Einsteins
Designing the first aeroplanes
They kicked some ass in the Ivy League
Acing LSATs and their GREs
But the Hindenburg crashed on the ground
Blew up like an atom bomb
The children cried as they looked on
Watching their daddies burn
Not every man is a Superman
Not every girl is a Supergirl
So cut your coupons while you can
Gravity's gon' bring you down
Learn not to care
Learn not to strive
Learn not to hurt at all
Learn not to try
Learn not to cry
When you eventually fall
Not every man is a Superman
Not every girl is a Supergirl
So cut your coupons while you can
Gravity's gon' bring you down
Gravity Will Bring You Down (unreleased version lyrics - partial)
Mice munchin' on your tasty bum
Eatin' what's left of your skeleton
On dirty floors you sit and wait
A chain and a ball decide your fate
Gravity Will Bring You Down (Ecce Homo document)
Chained up in your dungeon
Mice munching on your tasty bum
You’re turning into a skeleton
The Conquistadors have clearly won
And now you wish you never fucked
With the Spanish Inquisition
Some battles you will never win
Some laws you just can’t break
Not every man is a superman
Not every girl is a supergirl
So cut your coupons while you can
Gravity will bring you down
There must have been some Einsteins
Designing that first aeroplane
They kicked some ass in the Ivy League
Acing LSATs and the GREs
But the Hindenburg crashed on the ground
Blew up like an atom bomb
The children cried as they looked on
Watching their daddies burn
Learn not to care
Learn not to strive
Learn not to hurt at all
Learn not to try
Learn not to weep
When you eventually fall
