The people being held down by someone they love are being kept from attaining their full potential. In the song “Gravity,” Sara tries to explain how it feels to love someone who is oppressing them by telling the audience that she is down on the ground while the man she loves is flying far up above her. As she explains in the fifth verse: “I live here on my knees/ As I try to make you see/ That you're everything I think I need here on the ground.” Her love for this man is making her feel small and held back. Even though she knows he is far away from her, she believes that to bridge the gap all she needs is for him to love and be with her in order to be content with her life. Even though all she wants is him, she starts to realize that he isn’t
