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This song is so endearing. All the mass of worries we have now didn't exist when we were 6... How come we hurry to grow up and then wish we were small again?
i love "kinda like my life is like a sequel to a movie where the actors names have changed oh well" so true. i mean, do you get it? his life is just replaying itself over and over making the same mistakes and the only difference is it's with different people (aka actors)...i feel that. its so me.
"you can paint that house a rainbow of colors rip out the floorboards and replace the the shutters but that's my plastic in the dirt"
This strong strikes me for a number of reasons: I was 5 in 1983 so the references hit home...I remember watching the Wrapped Around Your Finger video on MTV (when they still played music). The last bit gets me because yes, someday my boyhood home will be sold but no matter how it changes, my GI Joes are still buried in various places around it. I think on a deeper level, it says that no matter what changes in our lives, there are some things about us, call them memories or what have you that will never change.
I agree. Being six, carefree, innocent, pure and happy. Those were the days.
(There are two versions of Room for Squares?)
i really wish i could be six no worries no girls or schoolwork i would just love to go back and ride my bke up and down my street playing cops and robbers with my neighbor sometimes i would go to the park with my grandfather those were the good days
when he says that he mixes his memories up with dreams...its so true i do it all the time and sometimes i just wish i could live the memories all over again. i totally realte to him...
I love the way he has taken such simple stuff and made it into an amazing song. "thats my plastic in the dirt." you know what? Whatever happend to my lunchbox. A question that does not get asked enough...
This song just makes me wish i was six again, when i didn't have anything really to worry about, except waking up late on saturday morning missing cartoons. I don't know, this song is great just like the entire room for squares cd - both versions.
I can admit, the first time I heard this song I just thought that it was one of those "easy to listen to" songs. It certainly is, but it's also a lot more than that. This song is one of my favorites from the Room for Squares album. The first time I heard it I thought "Wow, it doesn't get much better than that". "Plot a course to the source of the purest little part of me"...brillant. I love when he mentions his younger brother Ben, it really paints a picture of John Mayer as a little 6 year old...
I can admit, the first time I heard this song I just thought that it was one of those "easy to listen to" songs. It certainly is, but it's also a lot more than that. This song is one of my favorites from the Room for Squares album. The first time I heard it I thought "Wow, it doesn't get much better than that". "Plot a course to the source of the purest little part of me"...brillant. I love when he mentions his younger brother Ben, it really paints a picture of John Mayer as a little 6 year old kid. This song makes me feel like I'm six again..if only for a moment. I love John Mayer.
Yeah there was a release on aware records (different mixes of some songs) and after that sony picked him up, and re-mixed the cd, adding the track "3x5."
i guess its just one of those great mysteries of life..