Artist: John Mayer
Song: Gravity
Album: Where the Light is: Live from Los Angeles
Mood: Hopeful
Lo and behold, a truly cathartic piece of art! There are only a handful of songs that I know lead you on a path from pale sadness to pure volcanic expression, and “Gravity” by the perhaps infamous John Mayer, is most definitely one of them. Hailing from a quiet yet visceral place, this bluesy number shoots with painstaking pulse at the core of a grand, circumstantial truth – when you’re down, even the world seems to be coming out to get you. The gloomy days following any heartache tend to be filled with the most monotonous of horrors, in moments that signify nothing and in realms which make us travel back to the days of old where laughter and joy filled it all like the sunlight when it drowns a Sunday morning room. As we walk into a cave of silent desperation, we treat ourselves to endless torture – morbid and despicable torture. But this song, amidst the unavoidable sense of realizing that a new mountain stands ahead, serves us a plate of sad hope when other promises seem too far fetched and unreal. It does not say that everything will be alright, but it makes you feel like it will, because, in reality, it always is.
The universal healing quality glowing within this song, though concealed for a long period of time, is revealed once the solo begins, and if you actually choose to click the link below, you will then choose to hear one the sassiest solos in the history of contemporary music. The fog dances as if time ceased to exist in a carnival of hope, and the mysterious curtain which once blinded your future then dissipates in promising days full of newer and fresher dreams; days where introspection will lead to a new perception and, ergo, new challenges and obstacles as well. The guitar wails for us, she cries for us, she speaks for us, leading us into a sea of sonic poetry. The guitar, she understands what we will never see, in passages of the most exquisite truth. It is a song that takes you on a trip of emotions but also, it is this song that helps you stand where the light is. Keep yourselves where the light is, folks! Until the next one.
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