Come Back To Bed
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| "Come Back To Bed" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by John Mayer | ||
| from the album Heavier Things | ||
| Format | Digital download | |
| Recorded | 2003 | |
| Genre | Blues Acoustic rock |
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| Length | 5:25 | |
| Label | Columbia | |
| Composer(s) | John Mayer | |
| Producer(s) | Jack Joseph Puig | |
| Heavier Things track listing | ||
| New Deep (4) |
"Come Back To Bed" (5) |
Home Life (6) |
| as/is track listing | ||
| "Blues Intro" (6) |
"Come Back To Bed" (7) |
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| "Daughters CD Single" track listing | ||
| "Daughters" (1) |
"Come Back To Bed" (2) |
"Home Life" (3) |
"Come Back To Bed" is a song by John Mayer. It is the fifth track from Heavier Things, Mayer's second studio album. Mayer has mentioned (even in his Grammy acceptance speech) that his song "Daughters" wasn't suitable as a single. He has mentioned that "Come Back To Bed" along with "Something's Missing", also from Heavier Things, should have been the singles from the album instead, despite the success "Daughters" gained him.
[edit] History
Throughout Mayer's musical career, he'd intended writing a "real" blues piece. From the album Room for Squares, his attempt at this was in writing "City Love", but to him, the song didn't achieve the truth of the blues. He then wrote as a "sequel" to "City Love" the song "Covered In Rain", which takes its name from "City Love"'s bridge. "Come Back To Bed" was Mayer's next attempt at achieving this piece. Mayer has stated that it came closer to the mark, but still didn't achieve what he was hoping for. In 2005, Mayer recorded a live performance with his group John Mayer Trio. On this live performance, released as Try!, the song "Gravity" featured and was later also released on Mayer's next studio album Continuum. After Continuum's release, Mayer announced that he'd finally written the song he'd been trying to write all these years, also adding that "City Love" and "Come Back To Bed" were his early attempts at "writing Gravity".[1]
[edit] References
- ^ From an interview with Performing Songwriter magazine. The article quoted is no longer available online.
| Studio albums: | Room for Squares · Heavier Things · Continuum |
| EPs: | Inside Wants Out · The Village Sessions |
| Live albums: | Any Given Thursday · As/Is |
| Singles: | "No Such Thing" · "Your Body Is a Wonderland" · "Why Georgia" · "Bigger Than My Body" · "Clarity" · "Daughters" · "Waiting on the World to Change" · "Gravity" |
| Other songs: | "Neon" · "Something's Missing" · "Come Back To Bed" |
| John Mayer Trio: | Try! · "Who Did You Think I Was" · "Live at Yahoo! Music" |
| Affiliated people: | David LaBruyere · Clay Cook · David Ryan Harris · Pino Palladino · Steve Jordan · Chad Franscoviak |
