Feeling Gravitys Pull

By R.E.M.

On Fables of the Reconstruction

Released on June 10, 1985

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[Verse 1]

I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph

Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around

Peel back the mountains, peel back the sky

Stomp gravity into the floor

It's a Man Ray kind of sky

Let me show you what I can do with it

Time and distance are out of place here


[Chorus]

Step up, step up

Step up, the sky is open-armed

When the light is mine

I felt gravity pull


[Verse 2]

Somewhere near the end, it said

"You can't do this." I said, "I can, too."

Shift, the swaying rivers shift

Oceans fall and mountains drift

It's a Man Ray kind of sky

Let me show you what I can do with it


[Chorus]

Step up, step up

Step up, the sky is open-armed

When the light is mine

I felt gravity pull onto my eyes

Holding my eyes straight (Looking down)

This is the easiest task I ever had to do


[Verse 3]

I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph

Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around

Shift, the swaying rivers shift

Oceans fall and mountains drift

It's a Man Ray kind of sky

Let me show you what I can do with it

Time and distance are out of place here


[Chorus]

Step up, step up

Step up, the sky is open-armed

When the light is mine

I felt gravity pull onto my eyes

Holding my eyes straight (Looking down)

This is the easiest task I ever had to do


[Outro]

Reason had harnessed the tame

Holding the sky in their arms

Gravity pulls me down