John MAYER


Battle Studies

(2009)



1. Heartbreak Warfare 4'31
(John Mayer)
2. All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye 4'37
(John Mayer)
3. Half Of My Heart (With Taylor Swift) 4'13
(John Mayer)
4. Who Says 2'57
(John Mayer)
5. Perfectly Lonely 4'30
(John Mayer)
6. Assassin 5'17
(John Mayer)
7. Crossroads 2'32
(Robert Johnson)
8. War Of My Life
(The Jimi HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Cover) 4':17
(John Mayer)
9. Edge Of Desire 5'34
(John Mayer)
10. Do You Know Me 2'32
(John Mayer)
11. Friends, Lovers Or Nothing 5'59
(John Mayer)

Total Time: 46:59


Primary Musicians:

  • John Mayer – Guitars, Vocals
  • steve Jordan – Drums, Percussion (5, 6, 8, 10, 11)
  • Pino Palladino – Bass (), 3-6, 9-11)

    Additional Musicians:

  • Robbie Mcintosh – Guitar (2)
  • Waddy Wachtel – Acoustic Guitars (3)
  • Ian Mclagan – Hammond Organ (5, 9, 11), Wurlitzer Electric Piano (5, 8), Piano (10,11) Pump Organ (4), Celeste (4)
  • Jamie Muhoberac – Keyboards (1, 9)
  • Bob Reynolds – Saxophone (11)
  • Bob Reynolds – Saxophone (11)
  • Bryan Lipps – Trumpet (11)
  • Taylor Swift – Vocals )3)

    Produced by John Mayer and steve Jordan
    Chad Franscoviak – Engineering
    Charlie Paakari – Engineering Assistance
    (CAPITOL STUDIOS)
    Justin Gerrish – Engineering Assistance
    (AVATAR STUDIOS), Mixing Assistance (10)
    Ghian Wright – Engineering Assistance
    (The VILLAGE STUDIOS)
    Martin Pradler – Digital Editing
    Michael Brauer – Mixing (1, 2, 4, 6, 11)
    Ryan Gilligan – Mixing Assistance (1, 2, 4, 6, 11)
    Manny Marroquin – Mixing (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
    Erik Madrid – Mixing Assistance (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
    Christian Plata – Mixing Assistance (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
    Joe Ferla – Mixing (10)
    Greg Calbi – Mastering
    Art Direction & Graphic Design: John Mayer



    1. Heartbreak Warfare

      Lightning strikes
      Inside my chest to keep me up at night
      Dream of ways
      To make you understand my pain

      Clouds of sulfur in the air
      Bombs are falling everywhere
      It's heartbreak warfare
      Once you want it to begin,
      No one really every wins
      In heartbreak warfare

      If you want more love,
      why don't you say so?
      If you want more love,
      why don't you say so?

      Drop his name
      Push it in and twist the knife again
      Watch my face
      As I pretend to feel no pain

      Clouds of sulfur in the air
      Bombs are falling everywhere
      It's heartbreak warfare
      Once you want it to begin,
      No one really ever wins
      In heartbreak warfare.

      If you want more love,
      why don't you say so?
      If you want more love,
      why don't you say so?

      Just say so...

      How come the only way to know how high you get me
      is to see how far I fall
      God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me
      but I can't break through it all.

      It's a heartbreak...

      I don't care if we don't sleep at all tonight
      Let's just fix this whole thing now
      I swear to God we're gonna get it right
      If you lay your weapon down
      Red wine and ambient
      You're talking shit again, it's heartbreak warfare
      Good to know it's all a game
      Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak warfare.

    2. All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye

      Just when I had you off my head
      Your voice comes thrashing wildly through my quiet bed
      You say you wanna try again
      But I've tried everything but giving in

      Why you wanna break my heart again
      Why am I gonna let you try

      When all we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye

      I bought a ticket on a plane
      And by the time it landed you had gone again

      I love you more than songs can say
      But i can't keep running after yesterday

      Why you wanna break my heart again
      Why am I gonna let you try

      When all we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye

      We say goodbye
      We say goodbye
      We say goodbye

      All we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye
      All we ever do is say goodbye

      All we ever do is say goodbye
      [to fade ...]

    3. Half Of My Heart

      I was born in the arms of imaginary friends
      Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been
      Then you come crashing in, like the realest thing
      Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring

      Oh half of my heart's got a grip on the situation
      Half of my heart takes time
      Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you
      That I can't keep loving you (can't keep loving you)
      Oh, with half of my heart

      I was made to believe i'd never love somebody else
      I made a plan, stay the man who can only love himself
      Lonely was the song I sang, 'til the day you came
      Showing me another way and all that my love can bring

      Oh half of my heart's got a grip on the situation
      Half of my heart takes time
      Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you
      That I can't keep loving you (can't keep loving you)
      Oh, with half of my heart
      With half of my heart

      Your faith is strong
      But I can only fall short for so long
      Down the road, later on
      You will hate that I never gave more to you than half of my heart
      But I can't stop loving you
      I can't stop loving you [x3]
      But I can't stop loving you with half of my...

      Half of my heart
      Half of my heart

      Half of my heart's got a real good imagination
      Half of my heart's got you
      Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you
      That half of my heart won't do

      Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding to a bride with a paper ring
      And half of my heart is the part of a man who's never truly loved anything

      Half of my heart [x6]

    4. Who Says

      Who says I can’t get stoned?
      Turn off the lights and the telephone
      Me in my house alone
      Who says I can’t get stoned?

      Who says I can’t be free?
      From all of the things that I used to be
      Re-write my history
      Who says I can’t be free?

      It’s been a long night in New York City
      It’s been a long night in Baton Rouge
      I don’t remember you looking any better
      But then again I don’t remember you

      Who says I can’t get stoned?
      Call up a girl that I used to know
      Fake love for an hour or so
      Who says I can’t get stoned?

      Who says I can’t take time?
      Meet all the girls on the county line
      Wait on fate to send a sign
      Who says I can’t take time?

      It’s been a long night in New York City
      It’s been a long night in Austin too
      I don’t remember you looking any better
      But then again I don’t remember you

      Who says I can’t get stoned?
      Plan a trip to Japan alone
      Doesn’t matter if I even go
      Who says I can’t get stoned?
      Mmhmm

      It’s been a long night in New York City
      It’s been a long time since 22
      I don’t remember you looking any better
      But then again I don’t remember, don't remember you

    5. Perfectly Lonely

      Had a little love, but I spread it thin
      Falling in her arms and out again
      Made a bad name for my game around town
      Tore up my heart, and shut it down

      Nothing to do
      Nowhere to be
      A simple little kind of free
      Nothing to do
      No one but me
      And that's all I need

      I'm perfectly lonely
      I'm perfectly lonely
      I'm perfectly lonely (Yeah)
      'Cause I don't belong to anyone
      Nobody belongs to me

      I see friends around from time to time
      When their ladies let them slip away
      And when they ask me how I'm doing with mine
      This is always what I say

      Nothing to do
      Nowhere to be
      A simple little kind of free
      Nothing to do
      No one to be
      Is it really hard to see

      Why I'm perfectly lonely
      I'm perfectly lonely
      I'm perfectly lonely
      I'm perfectly lonely (Yeah)
      'Cause I don't belong to anyone
      Nobody belongs to me

      And this is not to say
      There never comes a day
      I'll take my chances and start again
      And when I look behind
      On all my younger times
      I have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong

      I'm perfectly lonely
      I'm perfectly lonely
      I'm perfectly lonely (Yeah)
      'Cause I don't belong to anyone
      Nobody belongs to me

      (It's the way, it's the way, it's the way that I want it)

    6. Assassin

      I work in the dead of night
      When the roads are quiet, no one is around
      To track my moves, racing the yellow lights
      To find the gate is open, she's waiting in the room
      I just step on through

      You get in, you get done and then you get gone
      You never leave a trace, or show your face, you get gone
      Should've turned around and left before the sun came up again
      But the sun came up again

      Enter the morning light
      To find the day is burning the curtains and the wine
      In a little white room
      Though I'm not alone, her head is heavy on me
      She's sleeping like a child
      What could I do

      You get in, you get done and then you get gone
      You never leave a trace, or show your face, you get gone
      Should've turned around and left before the sun came up again
      But the sun came up again

      I was a killer, was the best they'd ever seen
      I'd steal your heart before you ever heard a thing
      I'm an assassin and I had a job to do
      Little did I know that girl was an assassin too

      Suddenly I'm in over my head and I can hardly breathe
      Suddenly I'm floating over her bed and I feel everything
      Suddenly I know exactly what I did, but I can not move a thing
      And suddenly I know exactly what I've done
      And what it's gonna mean to me, mean to me

      I'm gone

      I was a killer, was the best they'd ever seen
      I'd steal your heart before you ever heard a thing
      I'm an assassin and I had a job to do
      Little did I know that girl was an assassin too

      She's an assassin
      She's an assassin
      She's an assassin
      She's an assassin and she had a job to do

    7. Crossroads

      I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
      I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
      Asked the lord for mercy, said 'help me if you please'

      I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
      I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
      No one seemed to know me, everybody passed me by

      You can run, You can run, tell my friend Willy Brown
      You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willy Brown
      That I'm standing at the crossroads, I believe I'm sinking down






    8. War Of My Life



      Come out Angels
      Come out Ghosts
      Come out Darkness
      Bring everyone you know

      I'm not running I'm not scared
      I am waiting and well prepared

      I'm in the war of my life
      At the door of my life
      Out of Time and there's no where to run

      I've got a hammer
      And a heart of glass
      I got to know right now
      Which walls to smash

      I got a pocket
      Got no pill
      If fear hasn't killed me yet
      Then nothing will

      All the suffering
      And all the pain
      Never left a name

      I'm in the war of my life
      At the door of my life
      Out of time and there's nowhere to run

      I'm in the war of my life
      At the core of my life
      I've got no choice but to fight 'til it's done
      No more suffering
      No more pain
      Never again

      I'm in the war of my life
      At the door of my life
      Out of time and there's no where to run

      I'm in the war of my life
      I'm at the core of my life
      Got no choice but to fight 'til it's done
      So Fight on, fight on everyone, so fight on
      Got no choice but to fight 'til it's done

      I'm in the war of my life
      I'm at the core of my life
      I've got no choice but to fight 'til it's done

    9. Edge Of Desire

      Young and full of running
      Tell me where is that taking me
      Just a great figure eight
      Or a tiny infinite

      Love is really nothing
      But a dream that keeps waking me
      For all of my trying
      We still end up dying
      How can it be?

      Don't say a word
      Just come over and lie here with me
      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
      There I just said it
      I'm scared you'll forget about me

      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

      Wired and I'm tired
      Think I'll sleep in my clothes on the floor
      Baby this mattress will spin on its axis
      And find me on yours

      Don't say a word
      Just come over and lie here with me
      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
      There I just said it
      I'm scared you'll forget about me

      Don't say a word
      Just come over and lie here with me
      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
      There I just said it
      I'm scared you'll forget about me

    10. Do You Know Me

      It's just the strangest thing
      I've seen your face somewhere
      An early evening dream
      A past life love affair
      Do you know me? At all
      Do you know me? At all

      In all my reverie
      I thought I felt us there
      A feather in my hand
      a flower in your hair
      Do you know me? At all
      Do you know me? At all

      Do you know me? At all
      Do you know me? At all
      Do you know me? At all
      Do you know me? At all

    11. Friends, Lovers Or Nothing

      Now that we are over
      As the loving kind
      We'll be dreaming ways
      To keep the good alive

      Only when we want is not
      A compromise
      Ill be pouring tears
      Into your drying eyes

      Friends, lovers, or nothing
      There can only be one
      Friends, lovers, or nothing
      We'll never be the inbetween
      So give it up

      You whisper "Come on over"
      Cause your two drinks in
      But in the morning I will say
      Good-bye again

      Think we'll never fall into
      The jealous game
      The streets will flood
      With blood of those who felt the same

      Friends, lovers, or nothing
      You see
      There can only be one
      Friends, lovers, or nothing
      We'll never an inbetween
      So give it up

      Friends, lovers, or nothing
      We can really only ever be one
      Friends, lovers, or nothing
      Don't you know
      We'll never be the inbetween
      So give it up

      No we'll never the inbetween
      So give it up

      Anything other than 'yes' is 'no'
      Anything other than 'stay' is 'go'
      Anything less than 'I love you' is lying .. [fade out]