Something's Missing
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| "Something's Missing" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by John Mayer | ||
| from the album Heavier Things | ||
| Format | Digital download CD single |
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| Recorded | 2003 | |
| Genre | Pop Acoustic rock |
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| Length | 5:05 | |
| Label | Columbia | |
| Composer(s) | John Mayer | |
| Producer(s) | Jack Joseph Puig | |
| Heavier Things track listing | ||
| "Bigger Than My Body" (2) |
"Something's Missing" (3) |
New Deep (4) |
| Any Given Thursday track listing | ||
| "City Love" (4) |
"Something's Missing" (5) |
"Lenny"/"Man on the Side" (6) |
| as/is track listing | ||
| "Your Body Is a Wonderland" (1) |
"Something's Missing" (2) |
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" (3) |
| Try! track listing | ||
| "Daughters" (9) |
"Something's Missing" (10) |
"Try!" (11) |
"Something's Missing" is a song by John Mayer. It is the third track from Heavier Things, Mayer's second studio album. This song is distinct from all other songs by Mayer as is the only song to have appeared on every live release Mayer has contributed to, including the live album Try!, from his group John Mayer Trio. Mayer has mentioned (even in his Grammy acceptance speech) that his song "Daughters" wasn't suitable as a single. He has mentioned that "Something's Missing" along with "Come Back To Bed", also from Heavier Things, would have been more suitable as the singles from the album, despite the success "Daughters" earned him.
[edit] The meaning of "Something's Missing"
The song is about a "gap" or a "hole". Mayer talks of the song as meaning that you can't specifically say what it is, but that "somerthing's missing".
In the song, he goes through a checklist of things that "could be" missing which are (in sequence):
- Friends
- Money
- Well Slept
- Opposite Sex
- Guitar
- Microphone.
After this, the lyrics then digress and state that the "message is waiting for me when I come home", indicating that the realisation of what is missing will return to him when he returns home.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Mayer explains where Something's Missing came from and when he wrote it in the DVD audio commentary from the Any Given Thursday special features.
| 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 |
