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| Jack Johnson – Do You Remember Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This one goes out to the comment from chiquita08...
Yes the song does have a kind of sappy context, but I don't feel that the sadness he feels is from "unreqited love". He is sad because they are getting older if anything. What he still is holding on to is after ten years it still feels like it did when they were kids. The piano analogy shows how they can both be themselves around eachother and not worry about boogie woogie(which doesn't necasarilly mean "silly songs", just her own personal style) or love songs that may be laughed at if played in front of others. They didn't care. Playing house was just stating that it still felt like they were kids and proposes that they had fun together. Life wasn't stressful together. Now we move on to the treehouse...the significance of the tree was that it was there spot and again made them go back to their youth. Just like kids, they could go somewhere 2 blocks away and suddenly they're on the moon. Seeing it burn down just hurts him because he sees not only his memories being destroyed, but his youthful life. Finally, over the course of the last chorus he switches up the phrase (and read carefully...) "We can't rewind, we're locked in time"-let me pause and say that here is a prime example of missing the past, not the girl and here's why if you notice the last part of the short phrase..."BUT YOU'RE STILL MINE!!!! They are still together!!! He finishes up with "Do you remember" because that is all he has left, memories. Now, sure that sounds like there may be a chance they are not together, but if you listen to the song, he ends the song as if he were starting it up with the D showing that nothing is over and that they are just getting started with the rest of their lives together. Besides of course they're together because just as Jack put it at the beginning of "In Between Dreams", they are "Better Together". |
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| John Mayer – City Love Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Well, most everybody has something to say about the lyrics and how they are sweet and all that jazz. But what about the use of sweep picking John loves so much. Now that is sweet. It's his trademark. Sweep picking is that brushing up or down technique that he does when he plays about three or four notes real fast. He does it alot. It gives the song that bluesy feel. |
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| John Mayer – Man on the Side Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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First and foremost, if you havn't heard the live version off of Any Given Thursday, you must. The thing about that version I love the most is how he covers a song by Stevie Ray Vaughan named "Lenny", hence the name, "Lenny/Man on the Side". He covers SRV because it was one of his heros growing up with the guitar and is one of the most talented musicians of all time. John plays with a lot of older musicians and the reason he does this is to get youth today that love his music a relationship witht the forefathers of modern music. Recently, I saw a show he did with Herbie Hancock. Many of you probably don't know him and that's fine, I didn't know who he was, neither did the thousands of us that went there to see John play. But by the end of the night, we all fell in love with the classics Herbie tickled on those ivory keys, like "Frankenstein", "Chameleon", and the new hit with John, "Stitched Up". Be on the lookout!!! |
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| John Mayer – Man on the Side Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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First and foremost, if you havn't heard the live version off of Any Given Thursday, you must. The thing about that version I love the most is how he covers a song by Stevie Ray Vaughan named "Lenny", hence the name, "Lenny/Man on the Side". He covers SRV because it was one of his heros growing up with the guitar and is one of the most talented musicians of all time. John plays with a lot of older musicians and the reason he does this is to get youth today that love his music a relationship witht the forefathers of modern music. Recently, I saw a show he did with Herbie Hancock. Many of you probably don't know him and that's fine, I didn't know who he was, neither did the thousands of us that went there to see John play. But by the end of the night, we all fell in love with the classics Herbie tickled on those ivory keys, like "Frankenstein", "Chameleon", and the new hit with John, "Stitched Up". Be on the lookout!!! |
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| Jack Johnson – Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Oh yeah, plus he throws in an Emaj. That's intriguing because there tou have a G#, which is not in the key of C as well.
Yet besides the instrumental part, I can also identify with him as I have also waited around for a girl. I was and still am dating her and I feel it relates to our situation because she is a very independent girl and I have been known to be a little clingy, yet I would hate having to wait for her when I felt that she wouldn't do the same for me. But then I realized that I needed to find a life. Still Looking??? |
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| Jack Johnson – Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I love the way jack takes a song that you think is in the key of C because of the Am, G, F, C line he makes. But it isn't entirely. Because he adds a 7th tone to each chord after he plays the original chord for 2 beats. The F and C chords end up with a flatted E and B. That alone makes the song unique. |
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