John MAYER

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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[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

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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

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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)

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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

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