12. Gravity - A Perfect Circle
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2007
- Artist: A Perfect Circle
Album: THIRTEEN STEP
Track 12: Gravity
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Lost again
Broken and weary
Unable to find my way
Tail in hand
Dizzy and clearly unable to
Just let this go
I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown
Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live
I fell again
Like a baby unable to stand on my own
Tail in hand
Dizzy and clearly unable to just this go
High and surrendering to the gravity and the unknown
Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live, I choose to live, I choose to live
Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun
Help me survive the bottom
Calm these hands before they
Snare another pill and
Drive another nail down another
Meaty hole please release me
I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown
Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live, I choose to live
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All a perfect circle songs in this user
I want to be friends with all the people who like this type of music
hello friend...
hello friend!
I don't have any friends...
I'll be friends with anybody
Sure mate, a perfect circle, tool, Metallica and pretty much any other metal/ prog metal is good stuf
I've struggled my entire life man. Every single time I'm close to 3nding it, I listen to this track and I fucking cry. I'm a grown ass man and I fucking cry so hard. It's so hard .. but I cry and I keep going forward. I want every person who reads this to know your not alone, and that it will get better someday...thank you Maynard.
Scrolling while I listen, hope you’re doing okay now my friend.
This song hits close to home for me too, man. What a healing song. Let's listen to this and choose to live.
I hope you are fine by now, my brother.
Damn it, I've gone through the same thing many times. Never forget one line from this song; "I choose to live". God bless!
If you find yourself falling down, I'm there in spirit with my hands out to help lift you. I belive in you.
I made that choice 32 years ago. The whole album takes me to another step and I ain't looking back. To those who want to survive I wish you all the wisdom to make the right choices.
And discernment to know what from what
Hear hear!
This comment hit home brother. I'm six months clean and I've never been more excited to be alive. I don't know you, but I love you and I wish you all the success and happiness that one person could have.
Thank you, Mr. Fauteux.
hey - 65 yr old - love this song & all APC, Puscifer, Tool
This goes out to all those who are hurt. All those who are scared. All those lost in the shadows of life. To the addicts, the recovering addicts, the abused, the forgotten, to those that don't feel they can go on......
You. Are. Loved. I will never know any of you, but I love all of you. Pain CAN heal. Life CAN be lived. We CAN keep going, even if everything is telling you that you can't. You. Can. Live.
You. Are. Loved.
Thank you so much, amen to that!
Thank you for the love. Reciprocating it back to all those reading these words. You ARE love. You ARE loved. Enjoy your moments
thank you thank you thank you
Gracias !
That's beautiful my friend
"Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
Help me survive the bottom..."
God I love Maynard!!
I've Ben fighting cancer since 2017 Menards music keeps me alive
Lift me back up to the sun I chose to live ,Jesus.
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
You should listen to the song Judith
@@shmook1507 I have. I’m a Christian the lyrics bothered me a long time but now I just pray the man’s anger has been quelled.
I became an alcoholic after losing everything. divorce, lost my job, wife had a kid with someone else, struggled hard. looking frantically for work. people don't understand what music actually does to people and I can say this song, which always has been a fantastic band, has meant the world to me. I know it isn't what it's about but good grief. thank you. I know no one really reads these but decided to share
Certain music speaks directly to the soul, this is the kind that does so.
most of all the Lord our savior is always with you
how are you doing now, man?
Hope you're doing well now mate
Evan Williams dude pours his heart out and you just can't resist trying to fill it with this bullshit?
My father didn't make it out alive, but I'm here for all of you desperately clinging on and looking for a reason to keep fighting. I couldn't save him. I fought and cried for years, but those vices were stronger. If this helps even just one of you coming across this, please promise you won't give up. I don't care if it's baby steps. Just don't give up on yourself. We haven't given up or abandoned you. We're scared and don't know what to do to help.
.4/5/20.
You are a wonderful person. Thank you for your words. Thank you for this.
@@jacobmcdaniel6359 ❤
Thank you for the kind words . I can tell that you aren’t an addict or have addicted personality. No one can help us besides or any power much greater than ourselves. It’s a spiritual malady. We were born wired differently in a sense and will power alone doesn’t stop those vices forever or for to long. So sorry for your loss. Truly am. There is nothing more you could’ve done . We have to be sick and tired of being sick and tired to the point we can’t take it anymore. But everyone’s emotional bottom is drastically different. Mine was shallow. I’m very grateful for that because it’s a progressive disease and I stopped before it got deeper. Some go much deeper. God bless you and your family
You’re a beautiful person. I’ll stay alive and clean for your father today.
@@d.pinit7796 I'm glad you're safe and doing better. If you ever need to find me, come back.
one of those rare albums where every song is just perfect
Scarecrow Hunter all Maynard albums to meet are one of those rare albums 🙏🏼🌞
I’m in the process of choosing to live right now. This song is a light in the darkness ❤️
DID YOU KNOW?
That the reason that this song is the best one on the album is because it was written/performed by the original band that did MER DE NOMS?
Also, this song is by far the most powerful song in APC's catalog.
Suicide, depression, loss, grief, addiction. This has helped me survive so much no matter how low I get, no matter how much life shits on me.
I choose to live.
I had no idea it was the original team, but I agree that this hits me the hardest!
Its a constant struggle, between choosing to live and giving up
This is was my first concert at 16. I'm now 33 and in active recovery so this album resonates with me in a whole new, profound way. "I choose to live." Thank you APC.
Same. When you're in recovery, it hits hard.
every thing this man has to say always matchs up with my life.
even hip toting gangsta wanna be?
Omg yes! It's like he's speaking directly to my soul
Lost again
Broken and weary
Unable to find my way
Tail in hand
Dizzy and clearly unable to
Just let this go
I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live
I fell again
Like a baby unable to stand on my own
Tail in hand
Dizzy and clearly unable to just let this go
High and surrendering to the gravity and the unknown
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live, I choose to live, I choose to live
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
Help me survive the bottom
Calm these hands before they
Snare another pill and
Drive another nail down another needy hole
Please release me
I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live,
I choose to live
"I choose to live". Such a powerful lyric to end the album with.
this shit is soulful isn't it
Soul ❤️🙏🏻
I also love the "Surrendering to gravity of the unknown" lyric. Can't help but feel emotionally drained by this album, much less the song.
I know. I Love it. It's very motivating.
Yes. My buddy shot himself yes back. College graduate.... top of his class. But he was depressed. He talk to me only. His parents did not believe in depression. I did everything I could. But I can only do so much. He shot himself five years ago. I wish he didn't. He never used drugs and he hated alcohol. It was hard. But I want people to know this.... someone always cares.
this song is beautiful. 4th year clean and every single day is a struggle 🖤
Good job. That's what I had too but I had to surrender once again just recently. Please keep it up
I love how this song doesn't make you feel like headbanging, dancing or something, but like slowly leaning back and feeling the emotiongs that it shows.
I'm 41 and APC has helped me so much all these years. So good to get back and revisit this magic.
Thank You to Maynard. this is truly a gift.
I'm 23, but I feel you on that. He has kept me grounded through a lot of shit. I too am thankful for Maynard.
I'm 59769 but I am not
get outta this circle
Kyle Mccalip I'll bet you his body figure is a perfect circle
Catch me, heal me...I love a perfect circle. I use some of their songs as prayers to God. Maynard always has powerful lyrics that I feel like anyone can connect to who have been through hard times.
Did anyone else notice that most of the song has a seven-beat cycle, but the last chorus has an eight beat cycle. So bloody subtle! Great song.
I noticed it!!
My absolutely favourite track of the album.
This song is so beautiful. I found this song while going through a nightmarish medical ordeal that took me four years to heal,and I always listened to this when I wanted to give up badly, and now today I am healed and mostly healthy. Maynard will never know the beautiful ways his music has influenced the fabric of life and reality.
I've battled depression and still am..this song depicts alot of my feelings and emotions. I'm so thrilled i discoverd this band..wish i did sooner. Would have helped me get through alot. Very therapeutic. Thank you
I just lost one of the strongest and most beautiful souls on Xmas night. I remember playing this during Xmas time 10 years ago to get through my depression but as someone who adored Maynard and who was such a fierce strong energy herself, I can't help but feel that this is now her Song. Her soul was ripped away from her body. I hope that soul finds its way back up to the Sun and chooses to live.
Thank you Again APC. Y'all have gotten me through so much pain.
I really connected with this song during my bout with cancer, it really helped me through the chaos and my decision about whether to go through treatments or not. In other words, I owe my life to the inspiration I acquired from listening to this song.
This song makes me feel like I'm being washed out to sea in a non violent non life threatening way amd then just floating there forever.
I finally got my life back together after over 5 hectic years of trying to keep it all from completely falling apart. Things are getting better, yet I still have many moments of mental fragility.
Sitting here at midnight on my lunch break at one of the best jobs in my area, I'm having one of those nights in which I'm questioning how it all went so awry to begin with. Divorce, moving, starting my life over again, my musical projects put on hold, so many friends and loved ones dying or losing their way, yet I still choose to live.
This album makes me feel so alive
Mae Raindrops Thats the purpose ;) Maynard used to do this... As well known a lot of stuff that would blow anyone mind...
Mae Raindrops Thank you for choosing to live!M!
I'm very sick. When I lose hope this helps me fight harder. I chose to live.
Abby Normal hope you are doing well and still fighting hard
im still truckin thank you 😊
Abby -
Don't ever give up. Going back will never be worth it. You deserve to have a normal life.
Abby I hope that things are going a little better now hun I love you
@@cassandrajones7752 I’m here. And proud to be. Pray always to have another day 🙏
It's like wanting to cry...A perfect tribute to the fact that no matter the depth of the missery or the fear of the future, or the regrets of your past or your own identity, we never truely give up. We get angry with life, but when we realize it's all we know, we fear, and never look back. But we are all curious of death, no? We must live while life is limited and we have no certain knowledge of any afterlife. This is a Masterpiece. Let us all take this time to thank A Perfect Circle.
addiction is not only drigs guys, the addiction to being hurt, and the only difference is the way the addiction kills you, some physically, some mentally, some ny your own hand, the album is an interpretation of whatever the listener battled
I agree, but it doesn't just end there. There are those that feed off others and those give. Sometimes giving feels just as good as taking and can become an addiction itself.
I just went through a very strange part of my life. I did things i never thought i would do. I lost myself, i distanced myself from God...but i’m starting to and willing after a long time to make things right. I’ve cut ties with the temptations of my life. I hope to slowly find my way back to the path. It’s straight and narrow...but that’s what makes it so hard to follow, or maybe i should say, easy to lose.
“Lift me back up to the Sun.
I choose to live.”
having had a spiritual awakening.....
Been battling with depression and suicidal thoughts, tonight I heard this song for the first time and It gave me shivers, made me feel at home.
music's been my therapy for that for so many years now, keep up the fight.
Stay with us my brother.
We are here for you.
You are loved and cared for.
Let me know if you need anything.
God bless you my brother.
This song saved my life
If there was no other reason to hold onto life, this one would be enough for me. Thank you, William. I'll remember your words if (when) I fall into the darkness again.
PAPA BLESS❤️
The bass line on this song is so smooth!
... and "Paz" all over the place.
I go back into rehab tomorrow and I want the world to know I'm gonna live. Help me survive the bottom!
How's it going so far, if you don't mind me asking, man? Doing better?
Good luck to you brother.
Good luck my brother
Good luck man, hope you are still doing good.
put this song on if you ever feel like you're going to relapse. it's like a baptism or some shit.
I'm not an addict but this album just blows me away.....over and over.
I was a kid when this record came out, my brother gave me a copy. My cousin and I played Zelda on N64 for what seemed like forever with this album on repeat! And there are no other records like it. Every song has a beautiful feeling. Each track its own experience, yet the album is connected perfectly.
"For someone who is free falling within the realm of their
own consciousness struggling just for a sense of stability.
'I choose to live' are usually the hardest 4 words to say."
possibly the best song performed by a perfect circle
Magdalana. Sorry. Close second though. Tonight at 360 Amphitheater in Austin. 😉
Bass part is awesome
Osteres for me with this a really close second
Listening to this on the beach in Puerto Rico after drinking my third beer and smoking a bowl... Life doesn't get any more perfect than this. :) Much love to all of you hearing this ;)
The man's voice is heaven on Earth. Go Maynard. I can't wait to move back to the zone
This is therapy.. Who cares what others think... Always be yourself..choose to live..
Calm these hands before they
snare another pill and
drive another nail down another.
Needy hole, please release me.
gold gold gold
One of those nights.
Yeah
I know. Chills.
sNARES and PITFALLS
whole life is a struggle ... but music always heals me
This whole album is orgasmic.
You are so right on that.
All of their albums are orgasmic. Have you listened to Mer de Noms all the way through? It's APC's first album and what initially got me obsessed with Maynard.
Really and never listened to Tool first:) That's so odd to me.
Andre Ferrer Lol I know, I had heard Tool but I def didn't appreciate them until I heard APC at age 14....I think because it was slightly less aggressive..I was just starting to really appreciate musicians and lyricists around that age, not just "radio music" if that makes sense. So, yes..after that Tool and many more were a must :P
Well Maynard is like a god!
And you are a keeper:)
when ur addicted to something. it is really hard to get ur hands off it. the song saying , "calm these hands before they grab another pill". he or she is screaming for help. this song is one of the best in this album, it has so much meaning so much strength. its a peace of art period.
This album has helped me so much over the course of a few years. When I hit the lows of manic depression and it cheers me up at the euphoric highs. I don't know where I'd be without APC. Maynard is a true healer.
This song is at the crossroads of being incredibly uplifting and utterly depressing. Masterwork.
I wish I could be moved by it the same way I would years ago when I first discovered the band.
opium is such a bitter sweet addiction. this song in part helped me gain courage to stop and let go
Damn
this song is one that saves me. I choose to live, even if the temptation of finishing it all is too great to bear.
Man mjk is a singer that you are glad his vocals became more bright and rich with many smoother colors as he aged..
my best friend killed himself 3 weeks ago and i've been re-listening to this album and this track completely encompassed all of the feelings in the experienc. It has been one of the most powerful, saddest, gut-heart wrenching things i've ever had to live through in my life. God rest Micah Ankenman in peace, September 25th, 2023. Amen :'(
Dealing with social anxiety. Lost a friend in the line of duty. This song kicks in...
That ending ..... Just peaceful ...
No other music captivates me the same way as Tool and A Perfect Circle 💚 When he slows for "calm these hands before they...snare another pill" my soul soars and lilts on the notes as clouds.
"Please release me" & the cry the guitar lets out 👌
Found this today. Absolutely beautiful..
I'm not sure I'd be alive if I'd never found this song.
+Davy You have a good name.
Great names.you two.
They're music is like therapy
Their*
Yes. It is.
Aliens Exist No. They are music.
Gabriel Black No, it's "their" music.
Aliens Exist In your effort to profess grammatical perfection, you completely missed the joke.
2024 and just laying in my bed in my room with my headphones in taking this song in ❤
This whole album helps me live every single day without my father since I was 9 years old. This was my favorite album when I was a child and the feelings it gives me for remembering my father is much deeper than any music I've ever listened to. I'm so thankful for this music 😢💜
Seriously. What is it about this damn song!?
It is both sides of addiction and overcoming it but also falling to it.
I've been listening to APC and tool for 10 plus years this is easily one of the best song they have ever made. I have this on repeat daily.
I love all their songs, also Tool, they are one of a kind, they are one of a kind who combined rock music with philosophical meaning...
This song is so peaceful it reminds me of someone when through the depts of hell but some how by the grace of God they made it out and turned there life around👊🔥✝️
I had a crippling heroin addiction and overdosed 4 times. I'm 6 years sober and finished my masters and am living a meaningful life. This song and this whole album got me through some dark times. I lost everything yet found myself.
Im glad man 🙂
Keep living, for yourself and for all those who cant. Stay strong. You are loved.
R. I. P. Shane Kormos. You were so much for so many. I hope Heaven heals you. You are so well loved. 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
this song saved my life.
same, don't ever give up.
420jeremy do you mind if I ask how?
Skylighterr HD Maybe our friend 420jeremy here gave up on weed or something
Same for me...i had a depression at 18 years old...this band and this album helped me to get up on my feet
This comment saved my life
I go back to when I was 16 years old every time I listen to this song. More especifically, I remember when I was listening to it while travelling to a grange 5 hours away from all big cities inside the country. It was 11 P.M and it was raining while we were on the road. There was nothing there with us except for the forest surrounding us, and the high road showing us our way. My uncle was driving, my aunt was staring at the window, my mother was sleeping and my cousin playing his Nintendo DS. For some reason, that moment was one of the best I ever lived. It was one of the few times in my life I felt peace.... And I miss it....
my favorite song from these guys..i used to do my drugs and drink alone to this cd..back when i was messed up..but now it lets me remember how far down the road i was and came back..love this band..
Together we can overcome.
This is powerful stuff.
I choose to live with you in victory.
God Bless you.
I Love Maynard's Voice.
The lyrics are so powerful.
I just love a perfect circle! I have surrendered to gravity many times, each time it's a little easier because I have finally learned to trust the process. Slowly the isms of my life are let go, each time I chose to live. What the hell it's a great adventure!
He has thee hottest voice! Recognize it anywhere. That's actually how I came to kno a perfect circle . Tool is my fav band and then I heard one of these songs n love it too but tool is still my fav.
I know the beauty of music, especially this kind, is applying it to your life and finding strength/solace/catharsis through it, but just to be clear, this song, and the entire album IS CERTAINLY about addiction to drugs. Maynard has said so and the lyrics make it obvious. The Package - self explanatory. Weak and Powerless - same, with a lot of heroin metaphors. The Noose - that moment where you realize that you not only have to fix yourself, but mend the damage you did to those who you hurt along the way. Blue - watching someone you love slowly killing themselves while you sit in denial. Vanishing - when you become consumed and are no longer who you once were. Same with "A Stranger". The Outsider - that person telling you to just suck it up when they have no idea what you're going through. The Nurse Who Loved Me and Crimes are about overdose. Pet - the drug talking to you, master to slave. Lullaby - the high. Gravity - when you finally make it out alive.
There's no definitive evidence that Maynard is talking about his own personal addiction, but if he can write lyrics that personal and accurate, I'd be astonished if that wasn't the case, especially when he admits that the album is about the different aspects of addiction.
Sean Cone love the last paragraph u wrote man, u hit it right on the head. I asked myself the same question; is he talking about his own addiction? And I came to the same conclusion. I'd be astonished if he could describe addiction, it's roots, it's effects, etc with such great detail without actually going thru it. The lyrics are so head on that he must have felt it himself
Thank you.
Give this man a medal!
I hear conflicting stuff about someone in the band having a drug issue and then I hear that all of them are straight-edge. I personally haven't read a LOT about the band.... the music is enough for me, but a TON of their songs to speak to the addict within me. I've largely tamed it over the years.... but songs like H, Gravity, and the ones you mentioned are literally speaking DIRECTLY to the addict side of me. Tool/APC have been giving musical therapy since like 199X.
The album is about Layne, assholes
There's much more to live for.. I've realized your never going to make it out of this world alive. So live pure. These comments are beautiful. Your alls story's will help more than you know.
This song got me thru suicidal tendencies. I love the fact that they can flow in such a way with good lyrical diction and wailing guitars.
This song is so fucking beautiful. Exactly what I needed.
When you feel the urge to fall back to your prison , choose to live !! This song is by far so beautifully positive...music is more than what words can say!!
Trying to get sober right now. couldnt sleep with the insane thoughts of getting high i was getting the chills. this song has really calmed my mind. thank you again perfect circle.
maynard voice + the music ='s Beatiful music... ahhhhhhh
Catch me if I'm wrong but I think this song is about constant relapse to an addiction, then he finds help and relapses again , an the cycle never ends
Tool is my favorite band, BUT this is a great side project band.. Seen them at Kent state Maynard grew up close to me.. He has a hypnotic sound
At the rate tool puts out albums...I'd say tool is the side project.. lol
I once had secks with a guy who knew Maynard's neighbors cousin.
Idk.. I think that with how amazing both bands (Tool, and a perfect circle) are.. that you could not call either one of them a side project... I mean, I guess some people would say that, whenever there is a new band, started with the same lead guy/singer, and maybe the same guitarist, bassist, or drum guy.. that the newer one is considered a side project, or in some cases the first one. But I always thought that a side project band is like another band that 1, or more, band members are involved in.. but that they usually only make like a couple of songs, or something, and then that is it. Like, for example, Corey Taylor from Stone Sour, and Slipknot, (which are both very successful, and active bands), also has another band called SoundCity, with guys from several other bands, that got together to form that band. But, although, they really only made like maybe a couple of songs, which is probably because they are all kinda busy with their other band.. and in Corey's case, other 2 bands. So I would call Stone Sour, and Slipknot, Corey Taylor's bands.. but SoundCity, is his side project band. But, ya know to each their own.. it is really whatever anyone wants to call them. As long as they keep making amazing music 🎶, that we all listen to, and appreciate, on such a deep, and emotional, level.. then who really cares what you call it, for real though, lol...
@@slumpnmyrump4986 nice lol
That word surrender is so hard for me lately..heal me, lift me up.
it just speaks to me SO MUCH.
masterpiece
I think this can also relate to someone who is chronically depressed.
I suffer badly from this, I have stopped therapy twice, and this last time, I've really relapsed into my depression and anxiety (I fell again).
I want so badly to feel happy (lift me back up to the sun). please, release me.
Ashley Morris me too. This song is kind of my therapy right now. Going through a huge slump in my life and I'm so glad this album exists.
Or self harm, it feels like it releases negative feelings so in a way can be addictive as a coping mechanism. I'm agoraphobic, among many other things, and I've relapsed hard too.
Hugs
May we both find our ways out of the wilderness soon. 💚
you're probably bi polar
Thanks doc lol
This song.....man. I just can't breathe any time I hear it. Its perfect. ❤
Choose to live. We all live to see another day!!
I choose to live.
I love how everyone shares thier stories ...I myself struggle day to day ....but at least we are all on the same page....much love to everyone you are not alone ...♥️
One of the best bands ever.
When this album came out it was such a great time in my life. Every time I listen to it I go back.
I literally can't not sing along to this song.
This song never fails to put me in a trance.
Doesn't change the fact that it made my day, and that it was the first time I saw that comment.
I love how this whole album is dedicated to 12 step programs and the 13th step, being doing whatever it takes to quit doing drugs. This song is 100x more powerful when it applies to your life