John MAYER


Born And Raised

(2012)



1. Queen Of California 4'10
(John Mayer)
2. The Age Of Worry 2'39
(John Mayer)
3. Shadow Days 3'51
(John Mayer)
4. Speak For Me 3'45
(John Mayer)
5. Something Like Olivia 3'02
(John Mayer)
6. Born And Raised 4'49
(John Mayer)
7. If I Ever Get Around To Living 5'21
(Robert Johnson)
8. Love Is A Verb
(The Jimi HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Cover) 2':28
(John Mayer)
9. Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967 5'11
(John Mayer)
10. Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey 4'39
(John Mayer)
11. A Face To Call Home 4'47
(John Mayer)
12. Born And Raised (Reprise) 2'00
(John Mayer)

Total Time: 46:42


  • John Mayer - Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica,
  • Keyboards, Percussion Sean Hurley - Bass Chuck Leavell - Keyboards Aaron Sterling - Drums, Percussion
  • Chris Botti - Trumpet
  • Sara Watkins - Vocals, Violin
  • David Crosby & Graham Nash - Vocals (6)

    Produced by John Mayer and Don Was
    Primary Production Personnel:
    Chad Franscoviak – Engineering
    Michael Brauer – Mixing
    Manny Marroquin – Mixing
    Martin Pradler – Digital Editing
    Bob Ludwig – Mastering
    Additional Production Personnel:
    Phil Joly – Engineering Assistance
    Pete Bischoff – Engineering Assistance
    Ian Shea – Engineering Assistance
    Jared Nugent – Engineering Assistance
    Scott Smith – Engineering Assistance
    Chris Owens – Engineering Assistance
    Chris Claypool – Engineering Assistance
    Patrick Spain – Engineering Assistance
    Ryan Gilligan – Mixing Assistance
    Chris Calland – Mixing Assistance
    Additional Personnel
    David A. Smith – Artwork
    Danny Clinch – Photography

    All Songs Written and Composed by John Mayer.



    1. Queen Of California

      Goodbye cold, goodbye rain
      Goodbye sorrow, goodbye shame
      I'm headed out west with my headphones on
      Boarded a flight with a song in the back of my soul
      That no one knows

      I just found out her ghost left town
      The Queen of California is stepping down, down

      Hello beauty, hello strange
      Hello wonder, what's your name?
      Looking for the sun that Neil Young hung
      After the gold rush of 1971

      I just found out her ghost left town
      The Queen of California is stepping down, down

      [INSTRUMENTAL]

      If you see her say, "Hello"
      Just don't tell me, "I told you so"
      Joni wrote "Blue" in her house by the sea
      I gotta believe there's another colour waiting on me
      To set me free

      I just found out her ghost left town
      The Queen of California is stepping down, down

      [INSTRUMENTAL]

    2. The Age Of Worry


      Close your eyes and close yourself
      Build your heart an army
      To defend your innocence
      While you do everything wrong

      Don't be scared to walk alone
      Don't be scared to like it
      There's no time that you must be home
      So sleep where your darkness falls

      Alive in the age of worry
      Smile in the age of worry
      Go wild in the age of worry
      And sing Worry, why should I care?

      No you fight is not within

      Yours is with your timing
      Dream your dreams but don't pretend
      Be friends with what you are
      Give your heart then change your mind
      You're allowed to (throw) it
      Cause God knows it's been done to you
      And somehow you got through it

      Alive in the age of worry
      Rage in the age of worry
      Sing out in the age of worry
      And sing Worry, why should I care?

      Rage in the age of worry
      Act your age in the age of worry
      And sing Worry, get out of here!

    3. Shadow Days

      Did you know that you could be wrong
      And swear you're right?
      Some people been known
      To do it all their lives

      But you find yourself alone
      Just like you found yourself before
      Like I found myself in pieces
      On my hotel floor

      Hard times help me see
    Chorus:
    I'm a good man with a good heart
    Had a tough time, got a rough start
    But I finally learned to let it go
    Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
    And I'm hoping, knowing somehow
    That my shadows days are over
    My shadow days are over now
      Well I ain't no trouble maker
      And I never meant her harm
      But it doesn't mean I didn't make it
      Hard to carry on

      Well it sucks to be honest (honest)
      And it hurts to be real
      But it nice to make some love
      That I can finally feel

      Hard times let me be
    Chorus:
    I'm a good man with a good heart
    Had a tough time, got a rough start
    And I finally learned to let it go
    Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
    And I'm hoping, knowing somehow
    That my shadows days are over
    My shadow days are over now
      [INSTRUMENTAL]
    Chorus:
    I'm a good man with a good heart
    Had a tough time, got a rough start
    But I finally learned to let it go
    Now I'm right here, and I'm right now
    And I'm hoping, knowing somehow
    That my shadows days are over
    My shadow days are over now

    4. Speak For Me

      Now the cover of Rolling Stone
      Ain't the cover of a Rolling Stone
      And the music on my radio
      Ain't supposed to make me feel alone
    Chorus:
    Would have liked to know
    Have to learn to let it go
    Show me something I can be
    Play a song that I can sing
    Make me feel as I am free
    Someone come speak for me
      Now they celebrating broken things
      I don't want a world of broken things
      You can tell that something isn't right
      When all your heroes are in black and white
    Chorus:
    Would have drived to say
    At least I still have yesterday
    Show me something I can be
    Play a song that I can sing
    Make me feel as I am free
    Someone come speak for me
    Someone come speak for me
      La di da di da
      La di da di da
      La di da di da di da
      La di da di da di da
      Oh yeah

      I'm not mad about it
      But I'm not mad about it
      I'm not mad about it
      But I'm not that mad about it
      Just show me something I can be
      Play a song that we can sing
      Make us feel as we are free
      Someone come speak for me
      Someone come speak for me
      Someone come speak for me

      Now the cover of Rolling Stone
      Ain't the cover of a Rolling Stone

    5. Something Like Olivia

      Well Olivia is taken
      But a look like hers can be found from time to time
      Yeah Olivia is taken
      But a look like hers can be found from time to time

      I'm thinking something like Olivia
      Is what I need to find

      There's only one man in this world
      Who gets to sleep with her by his side
      There's only man in this world
      Who gets to sleep with her by his side

      I'm thinking something like Olivia
      Could keep me through the night
      Something like Olivia
      Something like Olivia
      Something like Olivia
      Something like Olivia

      I keep thinking something like Olivia
      Is what I need to find

      Now I'm not trying to steal
      No lover away from no one, no
      No I'm not trying to steal
      No lover away from no one, man

      But if Olivia herself rolled up my door
      I'd have to say I'd let her in, oh-h

      Something like Olivia
      Something like Olivia
      No, no something like Olivia
      Mm, yeah something like Olivia

      I keep thinking something like Olivia
      Is what I need, keep on
      Something like Olivia is what I need
      I keep thinking something like Olivia
      Is what I need to find

    6. Born And Raised

      Now and then I pace my place
      I can't retrace how I got here
      I cheat the light to check my face
      It's slightly harder than last year
    Chorus:
    Then all at once it gets hard to take
    It gets hard to fake what I won't be
    Cause one of these days I'll be born and raised
    And it's such a waste to grow up lonely
      I still have dreams, they're not the same
      They don't fly as high as they used to
      I saw my friend, he's in my head
      And he said, "You don't remember me, do you?"
    Chorus:
    Then all at once it gets hard to take
    It gets hard to fake what I won't be
    Cause one of these days I'll be born and raised
    And it's such a waste to grow up lonely
      I still got time, I still got faith
      I call on both of my brothers
      I got a mom, I got a dad
      But they do not have each other
    Chorus:
    So ride on up, take your place
    And show your face to the morning
    Cause one of these days you'll be born and raised
    And it all comes on without warning

    7. If I Ever Get Around To Living

      If I ever get around to living
      I'm gonna put my things away
      In the drawers and in the closets
      And there I'll stay, stay

      If I ever get around to living
      It's gonna be just like I dreamed
      I'm gonna take the love I'm given
      And set it free, free

      If I ever get around to living
      I'll take the end of every day
      Tie it up to every morning
      And sail away, away

      Maybe it's all a dream I'm having at seventeen
      I don't have tattoos
      And very soon mother will be calling me
      Saying, "Come upstairs, you got some work to do"

      When you gonna wise up, boy?
      When you gonna wise up, boy?
      When you gonna wise up, boy?
      When you gonna wise up, boy?

      You are hiding in your mind
      Working all the time
      Trying to make it better than you got it
      And you been spending all your time
      Searching for a sign
      That's never going to look the way you want it

      I think you better wise up, boy
      I think you better wise up, boy
      I think you better wise up, boy
      I think you better wise up, boy

    8. Love Is A Verb

      Love is a verb
      It ain't a thing
      It's not something you hold
      It's not something you scream

      When you show me love
      I don't need your words
      Yeah love ain't a thing
      Love is a verb
      Love ain't a thing
      Love is a verb

      Love ain't a crutch
      It ain't an excuse
      No you can't get through love
      On just a pile of IOUs

      Love ain't a drug
      Despite what you've heard
      Yeah love ain't a thing
      Love is a verb
      Love ain't a thing
      Love is a verb

      So you gotta show, show, show me
      Show, show, show me
      Show, show, show me
      That love is a verb

      So you gotta show, show, show me
      Show, show, show me
      Show, show, show me
      That love is a verb

      You gotta show, show, show me
      Show, show, show me
      Show, show, show me
      That love is a verb

      Love ain't a thing
      Love is a verb

    9. Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967

      [TRUMPET INSTRUMENTAL]

      Walt Grace, desperately hating his old place
      Dreamed to discover a new space
      And buried himself alive
      Inside his basement
      The tongue on the side of his face meant
      He's working away on displacement
      And what it would take to survive

      Cause when you're done with this world
      You know the next is up to you

      And his wife told his kids he was crazy
      And his friends said he'd fail if he tried
      But with the will to work hard and a library card
      He took a homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride

      That morning the sea was mad, and I mean it
      Waves as big as he'd seen it
      Deep in his dreams at home
      From dry land, he rolled it over to wet sand
      Closed the hatch up with one hand
      And paddled off alone

      Cause when you're done with this world
      You know the next is up to you

      And for once in his life it was quiet
      As he learned how to turn in the tide
      And the sky was a flare when he came up for air
      In his homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride

      [INSTRUMENTAL]

      One evening, when weeks had passed since his leaving
      The call she planned on receiving
      Finally made it home
      She accepted the news she never expected
      The operator connected the call from Tokyo

      Cause when you're done with this world
      You know the next is up to you

      Now his friends bring him up when they're drinking
      At the bar with his name on the side
      And they smile when they can as they speak of the man
      Who took a homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride

    10. Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey

      I stayed up in New York City
      I tried to find the man I never got to be
      Oh I pushed down on the pavement
      Found the whole thing so much harder than it seems

      The only deal I ever signed
      The old devil drew a dotted line
      The stage was set, the words were mine
      I'm not complaining
    Chorus:
    Whisky, whisky, whisky
    Water, water, water
    Sleep
    Whisky, whisky, whisky
    Wake up, shake it off
    And repeat
      It's just a phase
      It's not forever
      It's just a phase
      And I still might have a ways to go

      Every night around this time
      My friends and I we treat it like a race
      When I really start to break it down
      When you trust a girl who knew about this place

      Walking on with nothing left
      Speak softly underneath my breath
      Hey world you ain't seen nothing yet
      Great, now it's waiting
    Chorus:
    Whisky, whisky, whisky
    Water, water, water
    Sleep
    Whisky, whisky, whisky
    Wake up, shake it off
    And repeat
      It's just a phase
      It's not forever
      It's just a phase
      But I still might have a ways, yeah
    Chorus:
    Whisky, whisky, whisky
    Water, water, water
    Sleep
    Whisky, whisky, whisky
    Wake up, shake it off
    And repeat and repeat and repeat after me

    11. A Face To Call Home

      I am an architect
      Of days that haven't happened yet
      I can't believe a month is all it's been
      You know my paper heart
      The one I fill with pencil marks
      I think I might have gone and inked you in
    Chorus:
    Little by little, inch by inch
    We built a yard
    With a garden in the middle of it
    It ain't much, but it's a start
    You got me swaying right along
    To the song in your heart
    And a face to call home
    A face to call home
    You got a face to call home
      It's so good you didn't see
      The nervous wreck I used to be
      I never thought a man could feel so small
      You never look at me like I'm a liability
      I bet you'd think I've never been at all
    Chorus:
    Little by little, inch by inch
    We built a yard
    With a garden in the middle of it
    It ain't much, but it's a start
    You got me swaying right along
    To the song in your heart
    And a face to call home
    A face to call home
    You got a face to call home
      A face to call home
      A face to call home
      You got a face to call home

      Maybe I can stay awhile
      Maybe I can stay awhile
      Maybe I can stay awhile
      I'm talking like all of the time
      Maybe I can stay awhile
      Maybe I can stay awhile
      Maybe I can stay awhile
      I'm talking like all of the time
    Chorus:
    Little by little, inch by inch
    We built a yard
    With a garden in the middle of it
    It ain't much, but it's a start
    You got me swaying right along
    To the song in your heart
    And a face to call home
    A face to call home
    You got a face to call home
      A face to call home
      A face to call home
      You got a face to call home

    12. Born And Raised (Reprise)

      One, two, one two three

      Born and raised
      Locks of brown and streaks of grey
      I was brought up in brighter days
      It's good to say
      Now I'm born and raised

      Born and raised
      In half the time I'll be twice my age
      Better learn how to turn the page
      Cause time is strange
      When you're born and raised

      [HARMONICA]

      Born and raised
      Locks of brown and streaks of grey
      I was brought up in brighter days
      It's nice to say
      Now I'm born and raised
      Now I'm born and raised