Oh! Gravity Song Stories

Posted by Kevan Breitinger Dec 20, 2006

In eager anticipation of Switchfoot's December 26th release of "Oh! Gravity," we'll be sharing daily song stories to whet your appetite for this stupendous album. Click here to read the full Suite review of "Oh! Gravity."

First song up: "Oh Gravity": "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?"

"American Dream": I am proud to be an American. Proud of my grandfather who was shot down in world war two. Proud of some of my best friends who are in the Marines. I believe in a nation that is serving a higher calling than a TV. I have nothing against the material world. I have nothing against consumerism as a social structure. Certainly we are consumers with physical bodies, but if that's all we are we've lost what it means to be human. When success is equated with excess the ambition for excess wrecks us. As the top of the mind becomes the bottom line when success is equated with excess.