With a developed sense of maturity and a keen editing ear Sara has stripped away all the unnecceasry instruments and vocals. The orchestration and minimalism feels deliberate. It’s the complete opposite in more than track position. On Little Voice, Gravity is the last track. She’s lamenting her story pehaps wanting sympathy for her plight. the song is filled with drums, additional keyboards, and harmonies and it feels like Sara is telling this story of this lover to a room full of people. On Careful Confessions, Gravity is the opening track that sets the tone for the album. The differences between Gravity on Careful Confessions, and the Gravity on Little Voice speaks volumes to Sara’s growth as an artist. She ends the song by bookending the opening lyric alerting us again that we had it all wrong at the start, but now we are in the know, and we can share in her pain, that Gravity was not an song about the joy one feels while in the gravitational pull of a lover, but a song about one in-heartbreak who is trapped. The gravity of the song suddenly takes on a whole new meaning.
But the one thing I know, is that you’re keeping me down. If there is any confusion in what she’s trying to convey, Sara solidifies the theme at the end of the bridge with the powerful lyric. She knows that the relationship is unhealthy, and she also knows the lost love understands she’s vulnerable and takes advantage of the situation by leading her on.
This lyric that Sara constructs is tourtred, and conflicted. These two notes signal that she’s lost in space… trapped in the gravity of another. The two piano notes are added before the piano chords and they feel very Star Trek. Right from the start this version of Gravity is different because of two tiny music notes.
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