Something's Missing

Something's Missing

Song infobox
Name = Something's Missing
Artist = John Mayer
Album = Heavier Things
Format = Digital download
CD single
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Pop
Acoustic rock
Length = 5:05
Label = Columbia
Composer = John Mayer
Producer = Jack Joseph Puig
track_no = 3
prev = "Bigger Than My Body"
prev_no = 2
next = New Deep
next_no = 4
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Any Given Thursday
Type = live
prev_track = "City Love"
prev_no = 4
this_track = "Something's Missing"
track_no = 5
next_track = "Lenny"/"Man on the Side"
next_no = 6 Extra tracklisting
Album = as/is
Type = live
prev_track = "Your Body Is a Wonderland"
prev_no = 1
this_track = "Something's Missing"
track_no = 2
next_track = "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
next_no = 3 Extra tracklisting
Album = Try!
Type = live
prev_track = "Daughters"
prev_no = 9
this_track = "Something's Missing"
track_no = 10
next_track = "Try!"
next_no = 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 it was the only song to have appeared on every live release Mayer had contributed to up to "Where the Light Is". This included 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" would have been more suitable as the singles from the album, despite the success "Daughters" earned him.

Song infobox
Name = Something's Missing
Artist = John Mayer
Album = Try!
Format = Digital download
CD single
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Electric blues
Length = 6:57

The meaning of "Something's Missing"

The song is about a "gap" or a "hole". Mayer talks of the song as meaning one can't specifically say what it is, but that "something's missing".

In the song, he goes through a checklist of things in his life, each of which he confirms is NOT missing (in sequence):
*Friends
*Money
*Sleep
*Opposite sex
*Guitar
*Microphone
*Messages waiting on him when he comes home

After this, the lyrics then digress and cause him to wonder, "How come everything I think I need always comes with batteries?". [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.]

John plays this song in an unusual tuning, tuned (from bottom to top) E B E F# B E.

He also uses an unusual guitar, a blue Fender Stratocaster/Telecaster hybrid.

References

External links

* [http://music.yahoo.com/John-Mayer/Somethings-Missing/lyrics/2065590 "Something's Missing"] lyrics, at Yahoo! Music


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