| Béla Fleck – The Message Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There's another alternate verse, which has been used a few times recently, at least on one recording I have from 8.4.06 during the Acoustic Planet Tour with YMSB and Keller Williams, as follows: Cause you know, see everybody has got to get involved Cause around you, does life revolve From the family in the ghetto to the man on the street It's up to us to give them something to eat Cause some are down so low they can't help themselves While we're downtown, shopping at the sales Watchin TV at night, thinkin that what a shame But not realizing that we're partly to blame So what we got to do is change our attitude About the people less fortunate than me and you Who are scratchin for a nickel, askin for a buck They're just like us, but they're down on their luck So think about it, and run it through your brain Cause you never know when your life might change It could be you, sleepin in the rain, With the people walkin by, lookin at you strange |
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| John Mayer – George's Blues Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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During a live show (22 Aug 01) John says: "So about the time I wrote 'Comfortable', Matt [Mangano] and I were living in the same room, and, we were hanging out and writing songs; that was a time I could write some songs, now I'm just a lazy bastard, but, I'm getting back into it; but anyway, Matt and I were sitting around and playing songs to each other and passing the guitar back and forth and giving each other words to rhyme in a song and improv on, Matt was giving me a word, I did it and handed it back to him and he did a word and handed it back to me and I did a word, and I told him that the word to rhyme was orange, knowing that there wasn't any perfect rhyme for the word orange...and Matt one-upped me anyway. This is the song that he wrote:" Just thought you'd like to hear it straight from him. |
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| John Mayer – Outside in the Underground Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is more or less what John says during his intro to Outside in the Underground from his show at Eddies Attic in Atlanta on 6-15-99. It's not quite exact, cause I can't type fast enough, but it's really close. "So I'm flying up to boston in July which is great, I have quite a kinship with that city. I wrote most of these songs, well about half of them, up in boston. This song is, uh, If you have the five song demo, this song is called 'Outside in the Underground'. I hardly ever play it, but I'm starting to feel like it means something more; it's not a pop hit, but sometimes, when you go out in the rain, most of the time, we run, because you don't want to get hit by the rain, but other times you walk through the rain, and you just walk. You don't react to the rain, you let it happen, you don't back down. I think I wrote this song after i filled out my withdrawl form at berkley. And I had the idea for this song, it's raining, it's laid out in the city, and you have to walk a couple blocks to get around, and I didn't feel running, like opening up the umbrella or putting up the hood, and I just looked up and accepted it. This songs called 'Outside in the Underground'." It always helps to see the artists explanation of a song. |
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| Eric Clapton – Old Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song was covered by John Mayer on 5 March 2002. It's a great version if you can track it down... | |
| John Mayer – Comfortable Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| The cool thing about John Mayer is that you listen to one of his songs and say 'wow, that could have been me writing that'. Sure enough, every song, I say 'wow, that's me'. This is no exception | |
| Train – Drops of Jupiter Lyrics | 24 years ago |
| I'd have to say i agree with deedex. What a great tune... | |
| James Taylor – Fire And Rain Lyrics | 24 years ago |
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There's a cool story that goes with this song, although it's false. Still, told well, it can be very touching. Unfortunately, it would also be lying... Check out a hint of the fake story and the real thing at http://www.snopes2.com/music/songs/firerain.htm |
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| Jars of Clay – Worlds Apart Lyrics | 24 years ago |
| quite the lenten song, don't you think? | |
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