Listening to more John Mayer tonight and it’s still getting an emotional response. I really like his music; I’ve just about worn out his first CD and this new one is now in heavy rotation. This kid is either wise beyond his years or I’m a pathetic 40-year old luzer because I’m inspired by a 26-year old’s music. Maybe both. Whatever, his stuff strikes a chord in me and that’s what matters to me.

Something’s Missing
John Mayer

How come everything I think I need
Always comes with batteries?

I copied these lyrics directly from the CD insert (except the last two verses, which I transcribed from the song itself). I had to go to the insert to get them right: every single lyric web page I went to had them wrong. The second verse, the one that starts with being dizzy from the shopping mall, most got wrong as:

A desert frown, the shopping malls
I search for joy, then plot it out.
And all is well, I can?t complain.
It is just a game, it’s just a phase.

And the verse that makes up the heart of the song, the one this entry’s title is from, was most commonly presented as:

And it all comes, it doesn’t last
It just walks in, with a bad you lash
And you never know, when it starts
until this fog inside the glass around your summer heart

Yeah, “a bad you lash.” Whatever the hell that is. Sounds like another entry for the Archive Of Misheard Song Lyrics.

“Sounds like.” Ha.