| John Mayer – Wheel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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At first, I thought wheel was purely a love song. But when I heard the live version off JM's as/is cd, I started to think its deeper than that... "Cause I have a feeling it all evens out... at the very end of your life, you're gonna sit down at the table, and you're gonna shuffle out the good and the bad, and it's all gonna make perfect sense to you when you figure out that in the accounting books it comes up completely even... and then you're gonna ask, 'Well, what was it all for?' and they're gonna say, 'Well you did it, didn't you?'" It has an existential double meaning; in the same way you love someone and they move along and you can't control it, you live and die and cant control it. Despite that sort of morbid approach, Mayer twists the existentialism into a "carpe diem"-like upbeat mood... he warns us not too love one part of life too much: not money, not success, not even love. Because, as he says, in the end it all evens out. And that the way, this wheel, keeps working out... |
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| John Mayer – Covered In Rain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think JM wrote this song as kind of a before/after to city love, with this song as the after. City love was about the kind of irrational, directionless love that you get into for the sake of feeling good and for no hope of a future, and covered in rain is about realizing when its over. He uses 9/11 as a parallel to the end of that love, because in its absence the world is a colder, darker place. There's quite a few mentions of 9/11... missing signs, cnn, silhouette he hasn't gotten used to yet, etc. The feelings he feels about 9/11 resemble those that he feels for losing his love, "Lydia." And the guitar solo on Any Given Thursday is just sick. By the way, for everyone who wonders about "Lydia," I think she's a made up character named after a chord he often uses that has a very sad, mellow tone to it... but that's just my opinion. |
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