Before I write a review about this, I suggest you watch the YouTube video of Old bridge winter guard 2011 and try not to cry.
What an amazing song this is as soon as I heard it. A deep, passionate song about being attracted to someone when you don’t want to be but you are being pulled in by their “gravity”, this song can relate to a love- hate relationship one may have with a friend, or lover. Sara Bareilles’s angelic voice is background with a soft piano and some violins, obtaining a gentle, calm rhythm that rises along with Bareilles’s voice.
The lyrics that accompany the piano and violins are full of metaphors. I will not use Bareilles’s name since the author is almost never the narrator. A girl explains though her words of how her fragile strength keeps her up and away from her lover, but the power that a guy has over her brings her back. She wants him to set her free and leave her be, and tells him “I don’t wanna fall another moment into your gravity”. She stands tall and proud without him, but he has his way over her, causing her to feel like she must go back. She then explains how everything she needs is around her, and how she doesn’t need him. He is “neither friend nor foe” but she can’t find a way to let him leave her. She feels he is keeping her down from being herself. Bareilles uses a circle effect in her song, saying the same line of lyrics in the beginning and end of her song.
I would recommend this song if you are a budding pianist, for a flowing, quiet mood, or even if you are in this situation. This song cannot be put into any more words; it’s just something you have to listen to.
What an amazing song this is as soon as I heard it. A deep, passionate song about being attracted to someone when you don’t want to be but you are being pulled in by their “gravity”, this song can relate to a love- hate relationship one may have with a friend, or lover. Sara Bareilles’s angelic voice is background with a soft piano and some violins, obtaining a gentle, calm rhythm that rises along with Bareilles’s voice.
The lyrics that accompany the piano and violins are full of metaphors. I will not use Bareilles’s name since the author is almost never the narrator. A girl explains though her words of how her fragile strength keeps her up and away from her lover, but the power that a guy has over her brings her back. She wants him to set her free and leave her be, and tells him “I don’t wanna fall another moment into your gravity”. She stands tall and proud without him, but he has his way over her, causing her to feel like she must go back. She then explains how everything she needs is around her, and how she doesn’t need him. He is “neither friend nor foe” but she can’t find a way to let him leave her. She feels he is keeping her down from being herself. Bareilles uses a circle effect in her song, saying the same line of lyrics in the beginning and end of her song.
I would recommend this song if you are a budding pianist, for a flowing, quiet mood, or even if you are in this situation. This song cannot be put into any more words; it’s just something you have to listen to.
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