If there is one man who understands the relational capacity of a 20 Something it is John Mayer. Everyone knows him as a great guitarist but I know him as the man who writes my life in lyric perhaps more accurately than I live it. Almost every song speaks to me on a personal level. I mean the first time I heard "Room For Squares" I felt an uneasy sort of intimacy with John, as if he had walked in and seen me showering or how you feel after drinking too much and sharing something deeply personal on a first date. The kind of intimacy that needs to be developed over time with trust and an STD test.
Anyways, his verbiage resonates with me and in what I can't say in a 10 minute conversation he says in a few words. Here are a few examples:
1. "Quarter-life Crisis"
2. "I'd die if I saw you, I'd die if I didn't see you there"
3. "social casualty" (My Stupid Mouth)
4. "our love was comfortable, and so broken in"
5. "I just want to be liked, I just want to be funny. Looks like the jokes on me, so call me Captain Backfire."
6. "It's the kind of morning that lasts all afternoon."
7. "Wherever you go, wherever you are, I watch your life play out in pictures from afar."
In addition, I have taken in to consideration that all these clever descriptions of the relational journey may have been taken from some other source and John simply incorporated them into his music. If this be true John may no longer be considered the greatest profoundist or our time but rather the greatest plagiarist. I hope that never turns out to be true because for now....John is teaching this fragile heart how to love.
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