Down (song)

"Down" is the fourth track and single on the 1996 self-titled album release, Gravity Kills.

Tracklisting for single
1. "Down" – 4:10

Jeff on the songwriting
"The song really came about over a guitar cord voicing that Matt Dudenhoeffer wanted to use. He and Kurt Kerns were in the studio one night and Matt played the what was to become the opening riff to the track and Kurt played the answer on the bass. They proceeded to build the song around that initial collaboration. The song popped up about 3 quarters of the way through making the self-titled record. I had flown into St. Louis to write a vocal and lyrics for the track and at the time, Doug was working about 15 to 18 hours a day on the album."

Song Meaning
Jeff had noticed that Doug was about at his breaking point with the process so he proceeded to write the lyrics about what he was observing from Doug in the studio. The lyrics are written from the perspective of the "project" taking on a life of it&apos;s own and talking to Doug about the pressures, doubts, fears and the "wall" that Doug was hitting at that point. The "project" was calling to Doug to dig deeper and ask him "What&apos;s left of you?" Doug would be sequestered in the studio by himself for months on end.

Music Video
There was a unreleased music video for the song, which contained live footages from a few of their shows, at the American Theater in St Louis, and later at the Vic Theater in Chicago (Some of the live footages were used in the EU and UK versions of the video for "Enough"). The video was left as unfinished, due to their label TVT, deciding to only have the single servicing to Mainstream and Active Rock radio stations and so the song was never serviced it to MTV. However it was shown once in 1997, Kurt Kerns had recorded the video on tape and later passed the video to Jeff Scheel. On January 14 2011, Jeff uploaded and revealed the unreleased music video on Youtube and told some people on his Facebook profile that it was a "previously unreleased Gravity Kills video".