John Mayer – Back To You
Mayer grew up in Connecticut listening to pop radio until, at age 13, he discovered blues music when a neighbor gave him a Stevie Ray Vaughan tape. Mayer picked up a guitar, and within two years he was performing at local blues bars stunning audiences with his mature playing. But he soon realized that the world of guitar virtuosity was not for him.
“There’s this really distracting glory in wanting to be the best guitar player because all that really is, is copying somebody, seeing who can play ‘Sky Is Crying’ better than the next guy,” Mayer says. “I wanted to be listenable and play tunes that other people could play but not the way I play them.”
Mayer dedicated himself to developing his songwriting skills, toning down the guitar pyrotechnics in favor of memorable melodies and distinctive rhythmic textures. At 19 he enrolled at Berklee but realized in a matter of months that he was more interested in playing music than studying it. “It was a great learning experience, but not because of class,” he laughs. A friend from Atlanta convinced him to head south, and Mayer soon became a regular at such Atlanta songwriters’ nightspots as Eddie’s Attic. In 1999 he released Inside Wants Out, an album consisting mostly of solo acoustic renditions of his energetic, earnest songs, as well as several tracks recorded with a full band.
John Mayer - Back To You Lyrics:
It always comes around
Back to you
I tried to forget you
I tried to stay away
But it’s too late
Over you
I’m never over
Over you
Something about you
It’s just the way you move
The way you move me
Yeah, I’m so good at forgetting
And I quit every game I play
But forgive me, love
I can’t turn and walk away
This way
Back to you
It always comes around
Back to you
I walk with your shadow
I’m sleeping in my bed
With your silhouette
Yeah, should have smiled in that picture
If it’s the last that I’ll see of you
It’s the least that you
Could not do
Oh, I will
Leave the light on,
I’ll never give up on you,
Leave the light on,
For me too, for me too
Yeah…
Back to me
I know that it comes
Back to me
Doesn’t it scare you
Your will is not as strong