| John Mayer – Everything You'll Ever Be Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think this song is the speaker speaking to the girl he loves, who is insecure about herself and her looks. She may be always down on herself and having self-esteem issues. It has some really beautiful lyrics, I think. "Beautiful, I watch you try to see yourself through others' eyes" Here the woman is trying to figure out how other people view her and how other people think of her. She is trying to figure out if they think she's pretty, not pretty, etc. "But mirrors are a losing game. They only show you backwards anyway." In a quite literal sense, mirrors do only show you backwards. You only ever really get to see yourself looking at a reflection of yourself-you don't ever truly see yourself. You don't see yourself laughing at a funny joke or talking animatedly about something you're passionate about. The singer is saying here that the girl shouldn't be so wrapped up in her appearance and whether or not she's hot or pretty or whatever she wanted to be considered, because it's just a losing game. Beauty is subjective anyway. :) "The magic and the misery, come and go so easily." I think the girl has mood swings-like really high highs and really low lows and the changes in mood and temperament come and go quickly and easily. "But everything you'll ever be, you already are to me." He's saying that she doesn't need to try to be something else for other people or to try to perfect whatever public image she wants to have, because to him she already is everything. I'll skip a few lines because they're pretty self-explanatory. "Why, I don't know why. I don't why you think you need to do it. How, I don't know how. I don't know how but I just sit back and I see my way right through it." He is admitting that he does not know why she feels the need to be so critical of herself and her looks and how her moods can change so quickly. But I think him saying he'll sit back and see his way through it is him saying he'll stick with her throughout it. "When the memories stand ten feet tall throwing shadows on your bedroom wall. When you pull the shade and kill the lights, will you hear me singing out tonight?" Maybe she's had a rough past that's caused her to think this way-a previous boyfriend or family member, perhaps. He's sort of pleading with her in a kind manner to listen to him and believe him. "Days are long and words are cruel. But they won't get the best of you." This woman seems to be having a hard time from the entire song, but this line especially points it out, to me. He's saying he knows that her days are long and the words people say about her are cruel, but he also knows that she won't let them get the best of her. A great unreleased JM song. This and A Face to Call Home are probably the closest things he's written to real love songs, and they're both beautiful. |
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| John Mayer – Covered In Rain Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I love the Any Given Thursday version of this song and I have always thought of it as being about a post 9-11 relationship. I think of it as the couple in the song is living in New York City after 9-11, and they are having to process what is going on and they are worried and scared just like everyone else. Also maybe the event of 9-11 and the stress and fear and pain surrounding it is making a rift in their relationship or driving them slowly apart. The first line "These days with the world getting colder" I think signifies 9-11 and how it made the world "colder"-harsher, scarier, feel less safe, etc. "Tonight we're gonna order in, drinking wine and watching CNN"-they are watching the news to figure out what is going on surrounding the events of 9-11 and trying to inform themselves. "It's dark I know but then again, it's the brightest thing I got when I'm covered in rain."-The speaker in the song sounds sad and maybe slightly depressed (of course I think this song is about 9-11 so I'm thinking it's about that) and he is saying he knows that what he just sung about isn't the best but it's the best thing he's got at the moment. Part of the second verse is what really made me think it was about 9-11. It says "Standing by the missing signs at the CVS at the checkout line"- so they are standing by all the signs for people who were missing after the attack. "She puts her quiet hands on mine" Maybe she is trying to comfort him or just show her affection/love for him. He repeats the chorus here. "Come December Lydia left."-If you've ever heard John's song City Love from Room for Squares, you'll remember the name Lydia being used in that song as well, as well as the line "covered in rain" being used to City Love. This song is sort of a sequel to that one. So the woman he was in a relationship left/broke up with him. "She mentioned something about it being for the best. I can't say I disagree; it's killing me."- I think at this point they weren't that close anymore because the events and their sadness had made them slowly drift apart. "And now I'm standing facing west, tracing my fingers 'round her silhouette that I haven't gotten used to yet. But it's the brightest thing I've got when I'm covered in rain." - I think now he either is standing figuratively looking back at Lydia, the girl he used to date, or a new girl he's now dating, and he's moved on, but he isn't used to her yet, she isn't the same as Lydia. I think the song is about the speaker's sadness after 9-11 and the rift it caused in his relationship. |
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| John Mayer – Edge Of Desire Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"Young and full of running" Here he's saying that he's young and not very committed, probably referring to previous relationships he has had. "Tell me where has that taken me"-He's sort of asking a hypothetical question. Sort of questioning himself. Like where has all the weeks/months/whatever of running away and not being committed taken him; what has it done for him? "Just a great figure eight, or a tiny infinity" If you look at a figure eight, no matter which way you look at it or draw it it just keeps going on in the same pattern. It never ends really. He's saying his cycle of running away from tough issues or relationships just keeps going. "Love is really nothing but a dream that keeps waking me." Probably my favorite line and pretty self-explanatory. he's saying that love-the want to be loved and love someone else-is nothing but something he dreams of and hopes for. It isn't tangible; he doesn't actually have it, but it keeps "waking him up" in moments throughout the day. He keeps thinking of how much he wants love, or the love of this particular person. "For all of our trying, we still up dying. how can it be?" He and the girl he's in a relationship with have tried really hard to make it work. But their relationship just keeps failing. He is wondering why this is. "Don't say a word just come over and lie here with me." He misses her and wants her with him. Maybe they've been fighting and he just wants to lie with her and feel her beside him and not have to argue. Just to feel her breathing beside him and know that she's there with him. "Cause I'm just about to set fire to everything I see. I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe." He wants this girl so bad; wants to make it work with her so strongly that he is willing to go back on his beliefs and convictions. He is willing to do anything to be with her, including ignoring his core beliefs. "There I just said it. I'm scared you'll forget about me." He's scared she'll forget about him. Scared that he will never cross her mind again and that she'll permanately forget about him. He doesn't want this to happen so much that he'll do anything to keep it from happening. "So young and full of running, all the way to the edge of desire." "Steady my breathing, silently screaming, 'I have to have you now." So at this point I think that he is lusting after her sexually...I don't know how else to put it lol. "Wired, and I'm tired. Think I'll sleep in my clothes on the floor." He's wound up from all the struggling to make this work and he's tired as well. "Maybe this mattress will spin on its axis and find me on yours." He is in his own bed, thinking of how he wishes his mattress would just flip right then and he could be on her bed. JMO about the song. :) |
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| John Mayer – Gravity Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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IMO this song is about anything that attempts, and sometimes succeeds, to bring you down. Anything that you have to keep working against to keep it from dragging you down and having a hold over you. The word "gravity" is just referring to whatever it is that threatens to bring you down. So "gravity-stay the hell away from me" is just JM saying that he wants everything/whatever it is to stay away from him and not get the better of him. "Just keep me where the light is" is a reminder to stay on the straight and narrow, so to speak. To keep being upright... |
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| Passenger – Let Her Go Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song, to me, is just about taking things for granted and not knowing how good you have it until it's gone. Like you never miss the sunshine when it's sunny, but when the cold and snow comes, you probably start to miss it eventually, as the song says, but you never thought about missing it when it was still sunny. It's in the contexts of a relationship as well, the singer had ended things with someone, and then realized how much she meant to him and that he loved her once she was gone. | |
| John Mayer – Clarity Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this song is, like some others here have said, about the rare moments in life we have where everything just seems to make sense and we are perfectly happy and our troubles seem to dissipate for just those few moments-have a sense of clarity. By the time you realize that you're perfectly at peace with everything, the moment slips away. I thought I was the only one who had those rare, but great moments until I heard this song, haha. | |
| Lorde – Still Sane Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this song is just Lorde dealing with her "newfound fame." It is new and cool to her now probably, hence the lines "I still like hotels but I think that'll change. I still like hotels and my newfound fame." The line "I'm not in the swing of things yet," is just the singer saying that she hasn't totally gotten used to being famous and all that comes with that yet. "Promise I can stay good", is an reference to the fact that a lot of celebrities and famous people end up "bad" or whatever; not genuine and just have broken lives, and she is saying that she hopes she can stay good, and thinks she can. "I'm little but I'm coming for the crown. I'm little but I'm coming for you." is just a reference to the music industry, and she is "coming for the crown" by way of writing and singing. | |
| Katy Perry – Love Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this song is about learning to love yourself and coming to terms with your own flaws and insecurities so that you can love someone else, and find someone who will treat you well. The speaker has had problems with losing her own identity and it seems like she let what the other person/people said influence her way of thinking about herself and things in general and made her hide her true feelings rather than just be open and vulnerable. So now she's learning to be completely herself, realize and accept her insecurities, and "love herself the way I want you to love me." | |
| John Mayer – Belief Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Is there anyone who ever remembers changing their mind from the paint on a sign?" and the next line, I think, are talking about how most people are so set in their beliefs and convictions that they're not just going to change their minds about what they believe in from reading a billboard or "hearing someone yell real loud one time." IMHO, the song is about how we're never going to get the entire world to believe just one thing, because everyone has different opinions, and there are different beliefs about things: religion, politics, etc., although I don't think this song was specifically talking about religion. Also, I think the line "belief is a beautiful armor, that makes for the heaviest sword." is saying that for those who hold beliefs and convictions about things, it protects them and almost shields them in a figurative way. The "what puts 100,000 children in the sand" has an undertone of the War on Terror, although I think this song is about belief in general-all belief. Awesome song, especially the live versions of it, and very deep. |
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