Alright, who can tell me what is the meaning of the song "Oh Gravity" by Switchfoot?

Question

What does it mean? Why was it written? Anyone can give me some ideas...
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Answer 1

according to Jon Foreman, "it's the idea that we as human beings could learn a little something from gravity, the attraction between two objects."

Answer 2

This is what Jon Foreman, the lead singer of Switchfoot, said about O!G:
"Oh! Gravity. is a conversation with a well-known law of physics. The question is this: If in the physical world things naturally move closer together, why are we falling apart? War and rumors of war, divorce, hatred, violence, and everything else on the evening news seems to contradict gravity. This song is a fun happy-clappy tune about a grave matter: “Sons of my enemies, why can’t we seem to keep it together?”"

I'll explain a couple of the lines...
"There's a fracture in the color bar"
color bar: a barrier preventing persons of color from participating with whites in various activities.
With all of switchfoot's songs, you can take different meanings. There are layers to every song. Maybe this line presents hope. There's a fracture in the barrier, breaking down to present one. Maybe it goes along with the whole theme. There's a fracture is society. Why can't we seem to keep it together?

"By the liquor store where the streetlight
Keep you company ‘til the next night"
For me, these lines paint the image of someone drinking in the night, staying by the streetlight, maybe homeless, maybe not. But like so many of us, lonely.

"In the same town, there’s the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store"
We're the same as the person standing next to us. We all present the same scars. Same fears, same tears.

"In the back room of the Pentagon
There’s a thin man with a line drawn
With a red jaw and a red bite
Watch the headline on the next night"
These lines remind me of 9/11. The Pentagon. The line drawn of division. Red. Maybe death. Saying watch the headline, watch the news. There's tragedy.

"In the fallout, the fallout
We found out the hype won’t get you through "
The hype won't get you through. Don't listen to what everyone says to do. Do what you know is right.

Okay, I know I used 'maybe' a lot. But that's because it's ultimately up to you to decide. Apply it to your own life and your own situations and see what you come up with.

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Answer 3

One of the members of the band said that song deals with how gravity attracts and keeps things together, so he wonders why the world is falling apart. It's a political song that encourages peace and love, most likely motivated by the war in Iraq.

Answer 4

Jon Foreman questions why in the physical word everything is attracted to each other, why are people falling apart, or in "Awakening," where it is discovered that only at the bottom new life begins.

“We’ve always used music as a vehicle to explore our own questions and frustrations,” says Switchfoot singer/songwriter/guitarist Jon Foreman of the band’s new album, Oh! Gravity. Oh! Gravity. is Switchfoot’s sixth studio
\album, their third for Columbia Records. After 2003’s double-platinum selling, The Beautiful Letdown, and another gold selling album, Nothing Is Sound, Foreman sums it all up by saying, “I’m in therapy and I write songs. It’s all an attempt to try to come to terms with reality.”

The San Diego-based band has often combined a spiritual bent with a critique of some of modern society’s hypocrisies on songs like the Top 5 singles “Dare You to Move” and “Meant to Live,” as well as such tracks as “Politicians” and “Happy is a Yuppie Word” from their last album, 2005’s Nothing is Sound.

Produced by U.K. vet Tim Palmer (Tin Machine, Pearl Jam, The Cure, Mother Love Bone, U2), Oh! Gravity. expands Switchfoot’s sonic palette while at the same time dealing with social issues on songs like the alt-country blues of the song, “Dirty Second Hands,” in which Foreman sings of the dehumanization that comes with technology (“With an army of me/We invent our own enemies/Man verses machine”).

“Although it ends up pointing the finger at us, rather than the iPod or the combustion engine,” laughs Jon.

Other politically motivated songs include the title track’s generational appeal for love, peace and understanding (“Sons of my enemies/Why can’t we seem to keep it together?”), “American Dream,” with its biting truth, “When success is equated with excess/The ambition for excess wrecks us” and “Awakening,” about trying to recover the innocence of a child in the midst of an ever-harsher reality. Their A&R exec, Grammy-winning producer Steve Lillywhite, helped the band achieve the song’s Police-like world beat and epic, wide-screen scope.

“I feel like I get born-again a lot,” says Foreman about the song. “I feel like I can easily drift into being dead as well. There’s a crusty shell we get as we get older that shuts us off from being blissfully oblivious. We’ve all been hurt. It’s a way of portraying the thing we often try to protect and hide—our innocence—as a strength.”

The group was founded in 1996 by Jon and his brother Tim, along with Chad on drums as Chin Up. After only a handful of shows, they were signed by Charlie Peacock to re:think Records as “Switchfoot,” a surfing term meaning to shift your feet on the board to take a new stance facing the opposite direction.

In 2003, the band was signed by Columbia Records, which along with Sparrow Records put out The Beautiful Letdown, selling two million albums in the U.S. alone and producing two Top 10 pop and Modern Rock singles, “Meant to Live” and “Dare You to Move.” Last year, the band released Nothing is Sound, which debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, and promptly went gold, yielding the radio hit “Stars.”

Coming off a pair of hit records, the band approached their new album, Oh! Gravity., with a quiet confidence and a desire for musical growth. Their first move was hooking up with veteran U.K. producer Tim Palmer.

“He was just a great person to come along and assist us with the goal we were attempting to achieve,” says Jon. “A good producer doesn’t project his dreams upon you. He’s a good listener more than anything else, and that was what Tim brought to the sessions.”

Switchfoot’s expanding musical scope can be heard on the sawing alt-country of “Head Over Heels,” the exotic instrumentation and Middle Eastern flavor of “Circles,” the REM-esque pulse of “4:12,” the lush Brit-pop melodies of “Yesterdays,” the Echo and the Bunnymen/Smiths influenced “Burn Out Bright” and Motown sound of “Amateur Lovers.”

“We were listening to a lot of Motown Records at the time,” explains Jon. “I guess whenever white guys try to play soul music; it comes out sounding like the Stones.”

After all the success and the rewards, Foreman insists he’s not feeling any pressure to top his band’s superb track record, but is coolly confident about the new album.

“It can kill the art worrying about how a record’s going to do,” he says. “For us, success is making music that is gratifying to you. The break-even point for the record that my band made back in high school was selling 300 copies. To us, that was success.”

With new songs like “Faust” and “4:12,” which question the world’s material obsessions, Foreman admits rock stardom is a double-edged sword with which he’s still grappling: “It’s that mixed drink you have to pour out so you can start with the pure stuff. And go back to the reason you loved music to begin with. We took a chance on this record, not to sound selfish, but to make something for ourselves. What other people think can’t change our minds about these songs. And that’s a good feeling. Because either you believe in it or you don’t.”

"Oh Gravity" is a conversation with a well known law of physics. The question is this: If in the physcial world things naturally move together, why are we falling apart? War & rumors of war, diviroce, hatred, voilence, & everthing else on the evening news, seem to contradict gravity. This is a fun-clappy tune about a grave matter: "Sons of my enimeies why can't we keep it together?"

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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