R.E.M. - Feeling Gravitys Pull Lyrics






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
Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed
When the light is mine
I felt gravity pull

Somewhere near the end it said
You can't do this
I said, I can too
Ships sway, rivers shift
Oceans form and mountains drift
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
Let me show you what I can do with it
Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed
When the light is mine
I felt gravity pull (into my eyes)
Holding my head straight (looking down)
This is the easiest task I've ever had to do

I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph
Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around
Ships sway and rivers shift
Oceans form 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
Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed
When the light is mine
I felt gravity pull (into my eyes)
Holding my head straight (looking down)
This is the easiest task I've ever had to do

Reason had harnessed the tame
Holding the sky in their arms
Gravity pulls me down





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  1. T.... C....

    surprised that this doesn't have more views

  2. K.... A....

    When I was eleven years old, I stayed up late one Friday night and watched a local music video program...

    And I saw this.

    A part of me thought I imagined what I had seen (the cutting is very jumpy, like in a dream), but I could not shake it or the song from my mind.

    And I think this made me a fan of a group that would challenge whatever I thought a song or video should be.

    Thank you, Buck, Berry, Mills and Stipe.

    👍🏾

  3. Z.... o....

    R.E.M. made the 80's great.

  4. t.... ....

    Still feel gravity's pull

  5. D.... J....

    I like the song and I really like the video. I generally hate videos but this one is different.

  6. y.... ....

    Gorgeous and weird. One of their most unfairly underappreciated tracks.

  7. m.... ....

    I remember when they used to open the show with this one. Incredibly jarring and beautiful.

  8. z.... ....

    How will be the reconstruction of this world? It'll be told to the grandsons of our grandsons in beautiful fables...

  9. j.... v....

    I feel so hypnotised by this one ........

  10. T.... S....

    One of the best guitar works of Peter Buck

  11. T.... S....

    Have always loved this song so much, so dark and unique in the REM catalogue. The Silence Kit recently covered this for a tribute to REM compilation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrwhsWcAkW4

  12. M.... B....

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  13. K.... K....

    Up N we called this Fables Down S you called it Reconstruction. M1R,VA

  14. A.... N....

    Kohutek, driver 8 , can't get there, green grow the rushes grow are too good

  15. A.... N....

    Best ever.

  16. J.... G....

    Saw them when they were promoting FOTR one of the best live bands ever!!!✌

  17. R.... A....

    Oh my... this song!!!! Listening again after years of having it on CD sleeping in the shelves. Amazing song. Thanks YouTube by the way.

  18. R.... ....

    Great song .. a Man Ray kind ..

  19. W.... K....

    Fables is a fascinating hybrid of the proto-rem demonstrated on murmur and reckoning.
    And the more accessible sounds that they would show on life's rich pageant.
    This was were they started to head for the stars.
    And by Automatic they had achieved it!LOL

    W.... K....

    Polly Ann how funny. Fables is my favorite! Automatic is my least favorite.

    W.... K....

    This and Pageant were the zenith, by my Reckoning.

  20. F.... ....

    I love a good reconstruction fable.

  21. T.... K....

    Great job on this video...........

  22. T.... K....

    I invented Eddie Vedder...Thanks Stipe...you are better

  23. p.... ....

    there was a time that i thought bill berry was the lead singer because they never showed the bands photos on their albums, now you cannot escape Stipes face.

  24. k.... ....

    It is crazy to me that this only has ~190K views. This is real music.

  25. S.... W....

    REM is an amazing band!

  26. B.... S....

    Ils savaient ce qu'était le Rock progressif, eux. Ils faisaient de superbes chansons en perpétuelle évolution.

  27. K.... B....

    REM chime and chug
    Complex intriguing music

  28. B.... R....

    My opinion, best REM album, by far.

  29. M.... T....

    It's a Man Ray kind of sky.....

    M.... T....

    great line

    M.... T....

    Oh, I always heard "It's a memory kind of sky." The real line is a lot better. Thanks for educating me.

    M.... T....

    yohei72 I had heard “It’s a mandrake kind of sky”

    M.... T....

    @Greta "'Scuse me/While I kiss this guy" -Jimi Hendrix

    M.... T....

    yohei72 😁😆😀

  30. M.... C....

    Who directed this video? Does anyone have an idea?

    M.... C....

    Mr Coffee I'd guess Michael did it himself.

  31. J.... B....

    it's time to wind down and to dream

  32. J.... B....

    read the first sentance and the last sentence of the chapter to learn how to speed read so she says.

  33. b.... ....

    Always admired the darker side of the band the most!

  34. L.... Q....

    some are bound to pull out a message, some are bound to listen and calm down. Not everyone can carry the weight of the world

  35. A.... K....

    What a perfect ending....

    A.... K....

    What a perfect song

  36. 3.... P....

    Aww look what mean ole Mr. Gravity did.

  37. u.... ....

    Mid nineteen eighties. Heard this...then Maps And Legends. Was hooked......

  38. s.... A....

    Does ANYBODY notice how much alot of Cobains songs sound like he might have been influenced by this song? I does!

    s.... A....

    It's a beautiful song. Before he died, Kurt wanted Nirvana to become like R.E.M. Just go check out the demos for Do Re Mi/Do Re Mi Medley

    s.... A....

    Kurt was a REM fan.

    s.... A....

    This is one of my favorite REM songs and Nirvana is so much like this! In fact without this song, I doubt if Heart Shaped Box could exist.

    s.... A....

    Luv the beginning of this...
    Oki fine I luv the whole damn thing...old REM is their best imo 🤘

    s.... A....

    I think Kurt was happy to admit that he'd been greatly influenced by early REM.

  39. S.... D....

    time and distance are out of place here

  40. D.... M....

    top 10 rem.

  41. R.... B....

    The beginning of a blindingly brilliant album. A towering achievement.

  42. Y.... ....

    Love the violin at the end.

  43. V.... d....

    R.E.M.s I.R.S. period is epic 🙌

    V.... d....

    yes! they should have stayed with I.R.S instead of selling out to warner brothers.

    V.... d....

    Maybe they were afraid IRS would audit them

    V.... d....

    Those IRS records changed my life!

  44. l.... ....

    As far as the I.R.S. period, this album and Document are easily their 2 best.

    l.... ....

    Eh, I'm partial to Reckoning

    l.... ....

    Document, Lifes Rich Pageant and Murmur.

  45. M.... P....

    Wow.. REMVEVO... nice, is it a sign you guys will be together again?

  46. b.... ....

    me, my bicycle, and this song on my walkman in early nighties...remember exploring early rem stuff after hearing out of time - this was so entertaining.

  47. M.... d....

    1985, My First REM Album !.. Groovy all these years..)

  48. M.... S....

    Image at 1:40 is a keeper.

  49. B.... W....

    My favorite R.E.M. song. A very pronounced Television/Soft Boys/Dream Syndicate influence.

  50. d.... ....

    Classic ...

  51. F.... W....

    This album is so unnerving... I love it

    F.... W....

    my favorite from it is this and wendell gee.

  52. S.... H....

    Still sounds amazing and fresh after all these years. Great song.

  53. h.... ....

    R.E.M doing that Cure style...

    h.... ....

    I don't hear that

    h.... ....

    I'm only referring to the Pornography album. But I'm sure there are more albums that sound closer to this.

    h.... ....

    Sounds like R.E.M.to me!

    h.... ....

    Sorry, but R.E.M. are far more talented

    h.... ....

    There's a little hint of 'Lullaby' to it, no doubt

  54. q.... 1....

    Uncanny how much that pic looks like Kurt Cobain who I heard was a close friend of Stipes.

    q.... 1....

    +Cobain Fan Est 2002 (HGUA IGUA) uh - no. every Nirvana song is a 2-4 chord progression, once with distortion, once without.

  55. S.... P....

    I love the sound of this song. Probably R.E.M.'s best song but then, i haven't heard the Collapse into now album yet but almost all of their other albums ive listened to a lot.

  56. T.... H....

    Very dreamy song with great lyrics from REM's best album. I love the words so much I stole one line for a song of mine (and it wasn't a Man Ray kind of sky , I'll steal that one later)

    T.... H....

    @Tommy Haynes I'm often tempted to steal good lines from my favorite songwriters but I generally just twist the line into a subversion to make it more original.

    T.... H....

    +Dewayne C I do that some times for my poems

    T.... H....

    +Tommy Haynes which one did you steal? I bet it was "reason has harnessed the tame"

    T.... H....

    Nope, "Oceans Fall mountains Drift"

  57. T.... L....

    Recorded yards from where i used to live in a particularly shitty part of London. They hated it there. This record 'made' the band. They should have moved there permanently.

    T.... L....

    +Anthony Meursault 'Just because people put things in quotes' 'Doesn't mean they have any significant meaning.' 'While this is my favorite record of there's, very few bought it so I don't know what it made for them.' 'Outside of it being my favorite of there's.'

    T.... L....

    i'd say it was life's rich pageant and document which "made" the band in terms of popularity and chart success, but this was a really good album that differed from murmur and reckoning and helped proved that they could differentiate themselves. it's one of my favorites they made, but i'd imagine if they'd gone through that recording process again, there wouldn't have been many more albums to follow.

  58. J.... P....

    Beautiful

  59. C.... B....

    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

    Step up, step up, step up the sky is open-armed
    When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull

    Somewhere near the end it said
    "You can't do this", I said "I can too"
    Shift sway 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

    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 head straight (looking down)
    This is the easiest task I've ever had to do

    I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph

    Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around
    Shift the swaying river's 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

    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 head straight (looking down)
    This is the easiest task I've ever had to do
    Reason had harnessed the tame
    Holding the sky in their arms
    Gravity pulls me down

    C.... B....

    @Casey Beavers (Official Channel) I love the lyrics

    C.... B....

    +Casey Beavers (Official Channel) All these years I thought it was 'it's a memory kind of sky' which would work Stipe-wise. Man Ray Sky of course is better because that's what he wrote.

    C.... B....

    man ray was a surrealist.

  60. C.... C....

    This, and Driver 8.

    C.... C....

    This and many songs!

    C.... C....

    Perfect Circle

    C.... C....

    World Leader Pretend

    C.... C....

    Take a break Driver 8. Great song but their top two!

    C.... C....

    Maps and Legends too, beyond doubt.

  61. D.... R....

    one of their greatest

  62. P.... D....

    They were a great band.

    P.... D....

    I've covered REM songs on my channel.

    P.... D....

    The best

    P.... D....

    Paul Desca Are they dead?

    P.... D....

    Frankincensed rem broke up in 2011

    P.... D....

    Absolutely!!! There will never be another R.E.M.!!!

  63. G.... T....

    My favorite.

  64. A.... ....

    Their best song.

  65. L.... D....

    yep, best song, best album....one of the best concerts of all time

    L.... D....

    Yes ! Definitely thier best album. Reckoning is second

    L.... D....

    Best is very subjective

    L.... D....

    Lois Deak no

    L.... D....

    Lucky u. I was supposed to see them first time on this reconstruction tour but my friend screwed me over. Saw them on green , out of time and monster tours.

  66. x.... ....

    How dare YouTube play commercials in front of this video

    x.... ....

    a :30 second commercial for a bullshit hollywood RomCom :(

  67. J.... W....

    I just looked up the lyrics, and I always thought he was saying "Man Made", not "Man Ray".

  68. M.... ....

    Great song. I've had it stuck in my head ever since I started seeing ads for Gravity on TV.

  69. M.... G....

    Nor can I. This song is one of my favourites.

  70. g.... ....

    Fables of the Reconstruction is R.E.M.'s best album. Can't believe that people don't like it that much.

  71. M.... G....

    I shouldn't have taken the bait, either. I just get really tired of people bringing such irrelevant topics up. The music is amazing. Appreciate and enjoy it, and be happy.

  72. M.... G....

    Michael has never said he's gay, and has had relationships with men and women. Also, everyone makes whatever choice is right for him or her. He's an incredible person with exceptional talents. Who are you to judge him, and by something that no one should be criticised or glorified for being? It is what it is. Find something important to jump up and down about.

  73. M.... T....

    completely different, cool also, yes ?

  74. M.... T....

    Weird song.

  75. H.... ....

    Help outan ignorant old man if you could. I am missing this one.

  76. w.... ....

    Indeed! Probably my fave album of theirs.

  77. W.... K....

    This was REM at their best (imho) and it shows in every aspect of the song, from Michael's haunting tenor to Pete's awesome guitar work; from Mike's incredible bass work to Bill's perfect percussion work. Mesmerizing is the only word that comes close!

  78. 3.... ....

    I hate Patton, but I was doing both in college.

  79. X.... ....

    Patton Oswalt was a teenager listening to this and reading Man in the High Castle.
    What a hipster douche.

  80. S.... S....

    Fables is seriously underrated.

  81. M.... W....

    help from the strings..you can't just stall a spaceship, they crash.

  82. M.... W....

    *you're__________anidiot.

  83. M.... W....

    youranidiot.

  84. E.... ....

    Classic late-night kind of song. Weird, spooky goodness.

  85. F.... W....

    thats hilarious. . .

    I'm going back to the onion now.

  86. I.... H....

    awesome guitar

  87. s.... ....

    Saw them in the Royal Court in Liverpool in 85 when they were promoting Reconstruction. They made me realise life was worth a go, along with The Smiths and Prefab Sprout and others. I know they had a tough time recording this album and it maybe isn't among their favourites but this my introduction to REM and I wouldn't have it any other way

  88. O.... N....

    I was in kindergarden!! I might have been the only one in my high school who listened to them, but oh well

  89. f.... ....

    when the light is mine

  90. f.... ....

    when the light is mine

  91. O.... W....

    Nice to see Generation Z ers like early REM material. Were you even alive in 1985? :-)

  92. b.... ....

    we live in a stupid world..that's why.

  93. J.... F....

    Wow no dislikes!!!

  94. J.... T....

    @Frequency95 Love the song brings back good memories as a teenager.Hanging round out side with my friends,drinking cider and super lager,and feeling gravity pulling me down.I saw them to on Glasgow Green.Best gig that I have been to.Lets hope they find retirement boaring.

  95. F.... ....

    This is the first song I ever heard them play live, through the walls of a soundcheck as we were waiting outside. I'm sure you can imagine the chills of excitement that went through the line as we all heard this opening riff.

  96. C.... ....

    I'll never be able to thank you enough for awakening the odd peaceful corner of my subconscious that has stayed with me for over 20 years, now. Your music has touched my mind like no other. Knew it had to end someday, but why NOW? :,(

  97. D.... L....

    R.E.M. RIP

  98. m.... ....

    Tin Gym. University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa. November 1985. 10,000 Maniacs opened. One of their best songs ever. Never heard it on the radio. Very little air play on MTV (yes, they really use to play videos!)