Born And Raised

John Mayer Born And Raised Lyrics
1.Queen Of California

Writer(s):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

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 is another color waiting on me
To set me free

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


2.The Age Of Worry

Writer(s):John Mayer

Close your eyes and close yourself
Danger hiding in all the world
Soothe your tears, 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

Writer(s):John Mayer

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 the hotel floor

Hard times help me see

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

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's nice to make some love
That I can finally feel

Hard times let me be

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


4.Speak For Me

Writer(s):John Mayer

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

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

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

Writer(s):John Mayer

Well Olivia's taken
But a look like her's can be found from time to time

Well Olivia's taken
But a look like her's 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 one man in this world
Who gets to sleep with her by his side

I'm thinking something like Olivia
Can 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 love away from no one, man

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

But if Olivia herself were at my door
I'd have to say I'd let her in

Something like Olivia
Something like Olivia
Something like Olivia
Something like Olivia

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


6.Born And Raised

Writer(s):John Mayer

Now and then
I pace my place
I can't retrace how I got here

I cheat and lie
to check my fates
it's slightly harder than last year

and 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
and I'm 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?

and 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

so ride on up, and take your place
show your face to the morning
'cause one of these days you'll be born and raised
and it comes on without warning


7.If I Ever Get Around To Living

Writer(s):John Mayer

If I Ever Get Around To Living,
I'm gonna put my things away,
in the drawers and in the closet,
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.

free,
free,

maybe it's all a dream, i'm having at 17,
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 gonna 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,
i think you better wise up boy,
i think you better wise up boy...


8.Love Is A Verb

Writer(s):John Mayer

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 crush
It ain't an excuse
No, you cant 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
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

Writer(s):John Mayer

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

Cos 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 a 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 peddled off alone.

Cos 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.

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

Cos 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 a man,
Who took a homemade, fan-blade, one-man submarine ride.


10.Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey

Writer(s):John Mayer

I said up in New York City
I try to find the man I never got to be
Oh I push down on the pavement
Find 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

Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey
Water, water, water
Sleep
Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey
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
Hey now, it's waiting.

Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey
Water, water, water
Sleep
Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey
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

Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey
Water, water, water
Sleep
Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey
Wake up, shake it off
And repeat it, repeat it, repeat after me


11.A Face To Call Home

Writer(s):John Mayer

I'm 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 bid you well

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 swinging 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

So glad you didn't see
The nervous wreck I used to be
Never thought a man could be so small
You never look at me
Like I'm a liability
I bet you never think I'd been at all

Little by little, inch by inch
We built a yard with a garden in the middle of it
And it ain't much, but it's a start
You got me swinging 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 could stay a while,
Maybe I could stay a while,
Maybe I could stay a while,
I'm talkin' like all of the time

Maybe I could stay a while,
Maybe I could stay a while,
Maybe I could stay a while,
I'm talkin' like all of the time

With a face to call home
A face to call home
You got a face to call home


12.Born and Raised (Reprise)

Born and raised
Locks of brown and streaks of gray
I was brought up in brighter days
It's good to say
Now I'm born and raised
Born and raised
In half of 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
Born and raised
Locks of brown and streaks of gray
I was brought up in brighter days
It's no to say
Now I'm born and raised
Now I'm born and raised