<Tr> <Td> `` </Td> <Td> This is the most important song I 've ever written , it 's a time capsule song . I will listen to it every day of my life if I need to . It 's honest to God the most important song I 've ever written in my life , and it has the fewest words . I was in LA , and I was there for the summer , just writing tunes , and I was in the shower . And I do n't know where it came from , but it 's the damn truth you know , and I just sang , `` gravity ... is working against me . '' <P> And I just want to say that my full - time job , being -- this is true -- being a musician is almost a side job to my full - time job of not screwing up . Because the world was devised to be pretty damn even , except for terminal illness , and things that people just absolutely ... They 're just flukes and they 're ... You know , I do n't know if they 're making up for something else way far away that they do n't deserve , but it all pretty much evens out . </P> <P> And if you 're gon na do this thing and get paid , and you know , get a car over the phone , if you 're gon na do this stuff , something else is gon na happen that is gon na be a temptation to pull you off of it because the people that do n't have that going on , they 're hoping for that , cause that makes the world even . That makes them even , it makes you even , and where I am now in my life , I 'm on a track where as soon as you get in a room , the room is full of things to take you out of the room . `` Now that you 've made it , here are a plethora of things you can do to not make it . Here are a ... Here 's the Out door ... '' and ... It 's a fill - in - the - blank you know . It 's like mad libs . It 's like : </P> <P> ( puts hand up to ear like a telephone ) `` Oh hey John , this is ( person that plays ... person in the room ) ... Umm , ( person 's name , famous person 's name ) wants to meet you , they want to meet at the top of ( famous restaurant ) umm , they 're really into ya , come on down , you know , in ( number ) minutes '' </P> <P> and you go ... `` no . '' And inside you go ... `` yeah , '' but outside you go , `` n-n - no . '' Because those are all ways to take you out . They exist as soon as you get ... Even if you 're not successful , when you get successful ... It 's like ... </P> <P> I got successful when I was 23 , and that 's a crazy looking arc if you chart it out ... And all I got ta do is stay up . And sometimes coming down is something to do , because staying up is really boring . If I go out to a party , most people who ask me to a party ask me there so I can be the famous guy at the party , not so I can meet famous people at the party . I am now ... When I 'm on a plane from New York to LA or LA to New York , and I go ( looking around the room ) , `` there are no famous people on the plane , there 's usually always one famous person on a plane from New York to LA ... '' and I go , `` ahh shit that 's me ! ! That 's not right ! '' </P> <P> Umm , this is a song about ... making sure you still love yourself ... making sure you still have your head on , making sure you still say no the way your mom would say no . And I will need it every damn day of my life because it 's easier to mess up than it is to stay here . </P> </Td> <Td> '' </Td> </Tr>
what is the meaning of gravity by john mayer
making sure you still love yourself ... making sure you still have your head on , making sure you still say no the way your mom would say no