Gravity of Love by Enigma is a song featured on their fourth album The Screen Behind the Mirror.

The song explores the themes within the relationship between two or more beings, which could be lovers, fellow humans or higher powers. The song begins with direct speech, an extract from Carl Orffs opera Carmina Burana. The actual text originates from the medieval poem, O Fortuna, part of the Carmina Burana collection which was written in Latin in the Thirteenth century: O Fortuna velut Luna This refers to the Roman god, Fortune who notably brings good luck. This is a first person perspective where the speaker is pleading with his god. This field of discourse is a link with the past, purposely using a register which has meanings pertaining to the original poem. This intertextual reference is used numerous times to accentuate that the readers fortunes will change for the better but only if they live life to the full. The second verse is written in a third person narrative and instructs the reader into a series of commands in the present tense. The narrator has an authorative voice but is also informal, using contractions such as dont, wholl and youll. Close your eyes...it is so clear The use of an ellipsis simultaneously marks the elapse of time between the instruction and the commentary and highlights the paradox of something becoming clearer when being unable to see. This is a potent device to deploy and emphasises perception is not everything; the reader should not always believe what they see. Heres the mirror, behind there is a screen

The use of the contraction Heres thrusts the audience with this idea and gives immediacy to the sentence. When the reader has their eyes closed, all they see is darkness. They can look into their minds eye and search inside themselves. The comma acts as a pause for the corollary of the image of the mirror. There is something, which some may call God, a higher power where this entity can see everything. The path of excess leads to the tower of Wisdom This is the other example of direct speech and a reference to William Blake. This is similar to a quote from his work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell which is dated between 1790 and 1793. In the original Blake text the word is palace instead of tower. However this use instils imagery of The Tower of Babel, from the Book of Genesis. It is implied that the limit cannot be known until it has been is past. Look around, just people, can you hear their voice? There is a double entendre, emphasised by the use of a comma, after the instruction with the word just. The people could be righteous and virtuous or they could be merely or only people. The interrogative instructs the reader to listen and keep playing an active role. The use of the word their could mean God, or gods or the group of people, perhaps the just people. But if youre in the eye of the storm Just think of the lonely dove There is a use of repetition that pertains to the first stanza. Using the conjunction But at the start of the sentence gives a plosive break in rhythm and changes the previous sentences back to the centre of the songs meaning.