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John Mayer – Waiting on the World to Change
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“Waiting on the World to Change” centers John and his generation’s inaction in regard to current world conditions as the youth feel powerless in this situation. They feel as though
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John Mayer – Bold as Love
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A cover of Jimi Hendrix’s legendary track.
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John Mayer – I Guess I Just Feel Like
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John Mayer first performed I Guess I Just Feel Like on iHeartRadio on Wednesday October 24th 2018. However, the song was officially released four months later, on February 22nd
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John Mayer – Stop This Train
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“Stop This Train” is the 7th track on 2006’s Continuum and is about coming to terms with the unstoppable march of time, as well as mortality.
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John Mayer – Helpless
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This song was originally written during the sessions for Born and Raised, per a 2013 My Stupid Mouth interview
“There was a song called ‘Helpless’ for Born and Raised that I
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John Mayer – Daughters
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Daughters is the 8th track off of Mayer’s 2003 album and 3rd studio EP, Heavier Things.
The song won the 2004 Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 47th Grammy Awards
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John Mayer – The Heart of Life
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“The Heart of Life” is an acoustic track, not unlike “Stop This Train,” in which Mayer defends life against all of the terrible things it brings on. At the crux of it, he posits
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John Mayer – Carry Me Away
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[Verse 1] / I'm such a bore, I'm such a bummer / There must be more behind the summer / I want someone to make some trouble / Been way too safe inside my bubble, oh / Take me out
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John Mayer – Belief
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“Belief” is the third track and second single off Continuum. Despite being released as a single in November 2006, a music video was never produced.
Lyrically, the song details the
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John Mayer – Queen of California
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Queen of California is the second single from, and first track of John Mayer’s Born and Raised.
It’s a tribute to the folk rock songs that came before, and Mayer adds his own
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John Mayer – Love on the Weekend
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“Love on the Weekend” is the lead single off John Mayer’s new album The Search For Everything. The song marks his return to pop-rock music which is reminiscent of 2001’s Room for
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John Mayer – Quiet
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This song is from John Mayer’s EP Inside wants out.
This song seems to deal with John’s insomnia or something that is bothering him that is preventing him from falling asleep.
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John Mayer – In the Blood
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In the Blood is the fifth song on John Mayer’s The Search for Everything.
Sheryl Crow is doing the background vocals, although she’s not being officially credited for it.
In an
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John Mayer – Who Says
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“Who Says” is the first single from Mayer’s fourth studio album, Battle Studies. It is an acoustic ode to the feeling of freedom from the stresses of life – an idea Mayer has
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John Mayer – Rosie
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‘Rosie’ is the tenth song from John Mayer’s The Search for Everything and forms a perfect follow-up song to ‘Never On The Day You Leave’, which is about realizing what you had
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John Mayer – Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
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“Slow Dancing In A Burning Room” is the eighth track on Continuum. It has since become one of Mayer’s most enduring hits, loved amongst fans for its highly emotional lyrics and
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John Mayer – You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me
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“You’re Gonna Live Forever In Me” holds the promise of a legacy. John considers the impact that a special person has had on his life, claiming that “parts of [him] were made by [
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John Mayer (Ft. Taylor Swift) – Half of My Heart
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“Half of My Heart” includes a featuring from American country pop singer Taylor Swift and it is the third single from Mayer’s 2009 album, Battle Studies. Mayer was nominated for a
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John Mayer – Edge of Desire
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[Verse 1] / Young and full of running / Tell me where has that taken me / Just a great figure eight or a tiny infinity / Love is really nothing / But a dream that keeps waking me
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John Mayer – Dear Marie
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“Dear Marie” is a song written to a girl John used to be in a relationship with back in high school but due to him pursuing a career in music the relationship ended up ending. As
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John Mayer – Neon
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“Neon” is about a girl that he’s into who loves to drink and get wasted in general. The song is called Neon because, like the neon lights they see every time they go out in the
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John Mayer – Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey
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Track 10 from Mayer’s folk rock album, Born and Raised. This song is perhaps one of Mayer’s most saddening, honest work as he talks about his dependence on alcohol during a low
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John Mayer – Victoria
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Based loosely on a true story! If you replace Tori the lost lover with Tori the lost roommate and the town with a Berklee dorm.
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John Mayer – Clarity
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“Clarity” was released as the second single from Mayer’s second studio album, Heavier Things. In concert, Mayer has introduced the song as one “written about the first few seconds
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John Mayer – Emoji of a Wave
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A melancholy love song, “Emoji of a Wave” describes the hardships of living apart in a relationship.
John describes life as a “wave” – a force beyond his control that knocks him
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John Mayer – Free Fallin’ (Live)
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[Verse 1] / She's a good girl, loves her mama / Loves Jesus and America too / She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis / Loves horses and her boyfriend too / Yeah, yeah / It's a long
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John Mayer – Badge and Gun
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[Chorus] / Give me my badge and gun / Give me the road that I may run / Give me that peaceful, wandering free I used to know / I've waited all I can / But I'm just not a patient
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John Mayer – My Stupid Mouth
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“My Stupid Mouth” details a date gone horribly wrong, when Mayer said something that his date took offense of and possibly ruined his chances of a relationship with her. He knows
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John Mayer – The Age of Worry
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The meaning of the song is well presented in Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3, line 80:
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to
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John Mayer – Never on the Day You Leave
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There’s a song called Never on the Day You Leave that is just the saddest song I ever wrote. It’s about guys and how guys work in regret and it’s never on the day you leave and
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John Mayer – Last Train Home
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“Last Train Home” is the fourth single from John Mayer’s eighth studio album Sob Rock, following “Carry Me Away,” which was released in September 2019.
Mayer teased the song and
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John Mayer – New Deep
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[Verse 1] / I'm so alive / I'm so enlightened / I can barely survive / A night in my mind / So I've got a plan / I'm going to find out just how boring I am / And have a good time
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John Mayer – Changing
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[Chorus] / I am not done changing / Out on the run, changing / I may be old and I may be young / But I am not done changing / [Verse] / I met me someone changing / We had some fun
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John Mayer – Wild Blue
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[Verse 1] / Never seen the sun before / Laying on the ocean floor / Walking through the wilderness / And living off the loneliness, oh / [Chorus] / Wild blue deeper than I ever
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John Mayer – Born and Raised
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“Born and Raised” is the title track of Mayer’s 2012 album. Through this song Mayer shares realization that he no longer has a lifetime of dreams and goals to look forward to – he
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John Mayer – Why Georgia
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[Verse 1] / I am driving up '85 in the / Kind of morning that lasts all afternoon / Just stuck inside the gloom / 4 more exits to my apartment but / I am tempted to keep the car in
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John Mayer – 83
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[Verse 1] / I've these dreams I'm walking home / Home when it used to be / And everything is as it was / Frozen in front of me / Here I stand, 6 feet small / Romanticizing years
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