John Clayton Mayer ( /ˈmeɪ.ər/ MAY-ər; (born October 16, 1977) is an American pop and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following, and he now lives in New York City. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland."
Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton, and by forming the John Mayer Trio. The blues influence can be heard throughout his 2005 live album Try! with the John Mayer Trio and his third studio album Continuum, released in September 2006. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change". He released his fourth studio album, Battle Studies, in November 2009. His fifth album, Born and Raised, was released on May 22, 2012. He has sold over 10 million albums in the U.S. and 20 million albums worldwide.
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The Oldest Sport of All...
He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Tryin' hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile
For his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him...
Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there's a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
the girl may smile the way you do
and touch me like you too
but still she wont be you to me
the world may turn the way it does
but i wont be in love the way i am now with you
oh it was tangled in your words
oh but goodbye was all i heard
all i heard
chorus : and i will cry if you walk away
wonder why if you walk away
did i give too much too soon
what a bitter price to pay
for what are tears if you walk away
days are years if you walk away
you will take my heart from me if you walk away
so girl if there was something wrong
you held it in too long
cause now this fool belongs to you
oh girl if you give me one more day
i'll find something new to say
some sweet line to make you stay with me
now i know you are tied up in your doubt
but don't go cause i still believe that we can work it
repeat chorus
stay baby i'll find some line to make you stay
now i know you are tied up in your doubt
but don't go ain't too proud to beg you
please don't leave cause i believe
we can work it out
repeat chorus
the girl may smile the way you do
and touch me like you too
You're a mystery to me
You make your own reality
And I wonder who you are beneath your skin
Guess I'll never know for sure
But I was safe behind my door
Can't think how I let you talk your way back in
Should have known better then
But I know better now
You can't hurt me anymore
I'm not the fool I was before
I ain't gonna cry again
I don't believe the lies you tell
So take your heart and go to hell
Cause I aint gonna cry again
You think I need you but I don't
You think I'll break down but I won't
You've had everything you're gonna get from me
Saw your pleasure in my pain
And it released me from my chains
And I woke up to my own insanity
Waiting for changes that were
Never gonna come
You can't hurt me anymore
I'm not the fool I was before
I ain't gonna cry again
I don't believe the lies you tell
So take your heart and go to hell
Cause I aint gonna cry again
I ain't gonna cry again
Now that I see you're twisted
I don't know how I missed it before
Maybe that's what drew me to you
But this is now and that was then
You'll never make me cry again
Should have known better then
But I know better now
You can't hurt me anymore
I'm not the fool I was before
I ain't gonna cry again
I don't believe the lies you tell
So take your heart and go to hell
You're a mystery to me
You make your own reality
And I wonder who you are beneath your skin
Guess I'll never know for sure
But I was safe behind my door
Can't think how I let you talk your way back in
Should have known better then
But I know better now
You can't hurt me anymore
I'm not the fool I was before
I ain't gonna cry again
I don't believe the lies you tell
So take your heart and go to hell
Cause I aint gonna cry again
You think I need you but I don't
You think I'll break down but I won't
You've had everything you're gonna get from me
Saw your pleasure in my pain
And it released me from my chains
And I woke up to my own insanity
Waiting for changes that were
Never gonna come
You can't hurt me anymore
I'm not the fool I was before
I ain't gonna cry again
I don't believe the lies you tell
So take your heart and go to hell
Cause I aint gonna cry again
I ain't gonna cry again
Now that I see you're twisted
I don't know how I missed it before
Maybe that's what drew me to you
But this is now and that was then
You'll never make me cry again
Should have known better then
But I know better now
You can't hurt me anymore
I'm not the fool I was before
I ain't gonna cry again
I don't believe the lies you tell
So take your heart and go to hell
Cause I aint gonna cry again