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John Mayer + Neverland = Perfect Bliss
(Source: jhnmyr)
Well, that’s a wrap on release week promotion for Born and Raised. It’s so phenomenally weird to wake up this morning at home and not in the back of a bus somewhere. On the bright side, releasing this album and getting back in touch with my fans has been something I’ve been waiting to experience for a long time now. I’m finally at a place in my life where I can truly appreciate the kindness and support, and you have shown me lots of it. Thank you for that.
As I understand it, the album is set to enter the charts at number one, which is just incredible on all your parts because there has been very little I’ve been able to do to promote it. In a world of schemes and strategies when it comes to selling something, you guys just bought music you trusted you’d like. You picked it up in the same way I made it… from the heart, no trickery. That is so cool and rare and all the marketeers in the world together can’t manufacture that. I am very grateful to you.
The making of this record was purposely undocumented, but there are a few iPhone videos and some photos to share. I figure I’ll do that here, and more often than I usually have in the past. Even if this album slides off the charts in a month, it doesn’t make it any less special to me, and we should all be digging this music together, like we would have (and will again) on stage.
Stay tuned…
with thanks and love
John
Screaming in fe inside like that fluffy comedian. Oh my. So happy…
“Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness, sometimes you never remember to actually get happy, so I remembered how to get happy, which is cool.”
(via cemawe)
jmma reading lounge: #BornandRaised after shock - Late Edition
Listening to Born and Raised is like entering a time machine. You open the door unsuspectedly, step inside and look around. The door shuts behind you and the machine starts to move. All of a sudden, decades and decades are flying in front your eyes. Each song seems like a different era. I just…
So ready…
Richard Young has a tumblr: John Mayer Autographed Photo Giveaway!
Hey all, I wanted to let you know that I’m giving away this autographed John Mayer photo! It’s from the Heavier Things era and I think by all accounts is pretty rare. If more of these exist, good luck finding one! It’s 100% authentic. I would prefer it go to someone who doesn’t have an…
Sometimes its easier to go out than to stay home and lay on your couch, because when you stay home and lay on your couch and drink chamomile tea, you have to face the facts. That there are people in this world that you cannot have, but that you still want. That even though your want is selective, when you do select to want that person it feels like you have wanted them forever and will want them forever. Therein lies the difficulty. And this song I’m about to play for you is about just that, its about saying ‘I cannot back up what I feel twenty-four hours a day, but right now you are the only thing I need.’ That’s what I call riding the edge, surfing the edge as I do with my life, constantly surfing the edge of desire.
(via iflifesshadesofgray)
‘Half of my heart, I can move half of a mountain. With half of my heart I can choose sickness or health. Half of my heart can only do one or the other. Half of my heart`s got one eye on myself. Half of my heart loves FedEx packages next day Memphis Air. Half of my heart feels around on the bed, sheds a tear when it finds that you`re not there. But I get by. I get by. I get by. I know what I need and I don`t like the time in between. With the wondering, and the questioning of what it`s gonna take. I know what I need, so I just give it myself, but I`m bored of that.
I want some love to come my way. Some words I don’t expect to hear them say. I wanna fall asleep at 11 o’clock PM, leave a room key at the front desk for them. They can slip on inside at two in the morning when their flight lands ‘cause a package got lost and it’s now in their hands. And they’re tired and all I hear is ch-ch, door opens up. Slide into bed, put your hands all over me. Be the only thing I can’t out-smart in my life. Be the only thing I didn’t see coming. ‘Cause I see everything coming. I said I think I see everything coming. Be the only thing I never saw coming. Be the only thing I never saw coming. If you believe that at some point in the future you will get to use your heart to the best of its ability, I want you to sing along with me.
- Johnny, (Red Rocks, 2010.)
(Source: inyouratmospherejohnmayer, via iflifesshadesofgray)
