| Gravity's Union | |
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| Appears On | The Afterman: Descension |
| Track | 5 |
| Length | 6:45 |
| Written By | Claudio Sanchez |
| Produced By | Coheed And Cambria Michael Birnbaum Chris Bittner |
| Preceded By | Number City |
| Followed By | Away We Go |
Gravity's Union is the fifth song on the 2013 album The Afterman: Descension.
Lyrics[]
I flew head first into the light
Weightless, crisscrossing, precise
In a dream or was it life
Inside this door all answers wait
So saddle up my steed
Where the lies live way beneath
Oh my, I think I’ve made a mess
This is all my fault it’s what I’ve wished
And I was wrong to let you go
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me
No time to change my life in the air before
Our maximum reach outweighted
Apart, pictureless retreat
The terror meets the truth, no longer who
We now know what we must do
Shadow dancing through the roof
Contact the life you used to know
Gravity, the world in tow
And I was wrong to let you go
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me
Driver may I sleep with you tonight
Numbered uncertainty
City limits, shoe strewn diary
The roar of the engine won’t cease
All of my love and heart spilled in this car
Picture me the perfect enemy
Our lives are one, colliding up and beyond
In this fatal possibility
I am your, I am your prize
We wave welcome aboard
We wave welcome aboard
In my eyes I drown you
Has he forgotten his place
Bait the hook and let it sink
No cause for alarm
Enter the master, I am Dr. Straight
Scalpel keep that lung in place
Nurse, IV needs refilling
Now watch the brain
Responding quite normal, this life I can save
Every man has a point, where he breaks or conjoins
Among pressure that floods to complicate
Matters close to the heart will define who we are
Do we love? Do we hate? We are only the meat.
We understood the unmistakable
Two romantics on holiday and how they stole our love
Caged
Locked in perpetual motion
Carving our wounds wide open
But you let the wrong one in
Meaning[]
In the coffee-table book published with some of the Special Editions, Claudio gave insight into how he came up with each track on the album. For this track, he wrote:
"One of my biggest fears in life is driving. It's been something I've struggled to do more as an adult simply to try and overcome that fear. The reason I have a hard time driving is because I feel so responsible for what would happen to the person in the passenger seat, namely my wife. When I wrote this song, I was thinking about the worst possible scenario I could ever think of in my life: She and I driving home and getting into an accident that left me alive and her gone, destroying the life we had build together. I couldn't live with myself. So in the story, I paralleled that with the accident of Sirius and Meri."