@@guiltycazlet hahah I just read his comment and came to say the same thing! I just watched the video of JM playing it at his show 2 days ago and had to find this video :)
I’ve been a huge John Mayer fan for 20+ years! Seen him in concert twice and this is the first time I’ve heard this! I thought of getting a tattoo of this sentence for my only child, Shelby & I see others did it too!
People love to hate on JM because if you were to take any single one of his aspects (singing, songwriting, musicianship) and look at them individually, he would still be better than 95% of artists today, yesterday and long, long ago. So when you put those 3 together, you get somebody that is so freakin' talented, it just isn't fair. People that are hired to "write good songs" for other artists can't even write as good as JM does.
Only John can write a song this beautiful and not release it. I've tried writing songs, and i would be hella lucky if I could write a song with a fraction of as much meaning/beauty as this.
It's 2022. I'd heard bits of this song but only found this full version today.....and Ive cried. This is the best love song he's ever written. Thank goodness for John Mayer
I was fortunate enough to experience this performance in Milwaukee. I still don’t have words. It was that moving. He just busts out a song for the first time. He wrote it in his hotel bathroom and decided to reveal it on that particular night. I get chills just thinking about it
I’ve been a huge John Mayer fan for 20+ years! Seen him in concert twice and this is the first time I’ve heard this! I thought of getting a tattoo of this sentence for my only child, Shelby!
Beautiful,? I watch you try To see yourself through other's eyes But mirrors are a losing game They only show you backwards anyway The magic and the misery Come and go so easily But everything you'll ever be You already are to me And you were only five years old Playing princess in your mother's clothes Could you feel me standing next to you With my plastic sword and playground shoes Saying "If my dear I'm wrong somehow May dragons come and fell me now 'Cause everything you'll never be You already are to me." Why, I don't know why I don't know why you think you need to do it How, I don't know how I don't? know how but I just sit back and I see my way right through it When the memories are ten feet tall Throwing shadows on your bedroom wall When you pull the shades and kill the lights Will you hear me singing out tonight? Days are long and words are cruel They wont get the best of you Because everything youll ever be You have always been to me
@@atisoz yeah it means to cut it knock down a tree. It’s also used like this, to describe killing/attacking people. Hope this helps, if that was your question in the first place :)
jescano206 I think everyone would be fine with this version but they were referring to a studio quality version. Like in "In Your Atmosphere" when they actually recorded the performance not on a mobile phone
Poems like these doesn’t just pop up. You have to be the master of a craft to do something like this. And master of an instrument to compose beautiful melodies like this to make the poem ten times more beautiful..
every night when I’m sad, or overthinking, i come to this video and listen to this song while I think about life. although I never understood all of this lyrics, It touches and intrigues me in a way that I just cannot explain.
Am i the only one who has recognized the crazy subtle 4/4 time signature change to 6/4 and back again and back again?!? On top of the beyond goosebumps worthy lyrics alone?!?!?!?!?!
@@henrypark194 thats an extremely nitpicky comment considering that it legitimately doesnt matter if you look at it in 3/4 or 6/4 . Kinda goes to show how pretentious you are lmao
I just learned to sing and play the song on guitar. Yes, you're right. It's on two different time signatures, (verses vs intro/interludes.) It took me about a while to wrap my head and my fingers around it. My vocals wantes to sing 3/4 but my fingers 4/4. 😂😂😂. It's brillant!
I don't care who this song is about, I don't care that he's lacking a awesome guitar rift.. I just care about the happiness I feel right now thanks to him. This song is beautiful.. This is my John Mayer. It's good to have him back.
I love John because every emotion a human goes through he has written or writing a song about it. All his songs are like the soundtrack to life. He is so complicated and a person can barely understand him but when he sings he brings us right where he wants and we understand everyword. We get caught in the feeling and moment of every song to where the only to feel that again is the listen to the song again..
There is no point in recording this!It is already perfect!It has to sound the way it sounds!This is pure art!From the heart!My favourite song!So relateble!Love you man!
"beautiful i watch you try to see yourself through others eyes the mirrors are a losing game they only show you backwards anyways" - John Mayer via making me cry ....this man and his lyrics
This song is incredible... This is exactly what he needs to do. Keep it simple and make music that speaks to people without thinking too hard about it.
How could 8 people possibly dislike this? the only reason someone could have to dislike this is if they were deaf and therefore unable to listen. Beautiful
1st verse, you'll say "oh, just another song for a girl he likes." 2nd verse, you'll hear, 5years old, mothers clothes, you'll say "that would be his daughter." "Everything you'll ever be, you have always been to me." A father will always be proud of his little girl. No need to prove anything.
OMFG!!!!! HEARD THIS IN THE BEGINNING stages at his soundcheck in Huntsville Alabama on Feb 5 2007. The line about her being a princess stuck in my friggin head for days. Now to hear it again...Must have a moment.
Views are well into the 6 figures and it makes perfect sense. One of the best musicians/artists of all time, the first time performing a new song, and EXCELLENT camera and audio work. Thank you!
I'm crazy about music and listen to insane amount of records. but John Mayer is the only one so far whose music can make me cry. I don't know what this means.
That's very true, and perceptive. Covered In Rain, In Your Atmosphere, Who Did You Think I Was, Another Kind of Green, Out of My Mind, Come When I Call, Good Love Is On The Way, and this song are all incredible! Yet, I get the feeling he doesn't release them on studio albums because the record company doesn't feel they'd be good. I could be way off, but if you watch his 2008 Berklee Clinic on here, he basically explains how record companies work in terms of album content.
It is beyond my comprehension how you are able to write all these songs. Loved the post with you going to work in the red shell suit. I laughed so hard I nearly choked. The thing is back in the day I had a similar shell suit ie track suit bx
AMAZING show last night. this song was great.. i really hope this makes it into the studio sometime. this is the best version i found on youtube. excellent quality. thanks for the upload.
Listening to this song i feel it's johns way of trying to express to us and in someways and more importantly himself how he really feels, his inner insecurities and his struggle within himself to never quite live up to an image he formed of how he thinks he should act and should be. The answer i think is that hes actually always been that person hes desired so much to be, just unable to see it until now. Always trying so hard to fit in and be liked by everyone instead of just being himself.
Yeah... This song's perfect. The lyrics are ever so sad, but so friggin' beautiful. I don't even need to quote one part of it; it's every single word. God I wish I was there. Truly hope this gets to be some kind of studio version in the future...
Most beautiful Mayer song to date...Every time I think I'm done with his music, and he has gone and become too mainstream he comes up with these songs that just transcend everything and become something else. Sometimes I wonder what it is like to put all of your fears and other emotions into music like this, I guess it's hard to be Mayer, being so sensitive, but at least he gets to put it into music ~
No slap-picking?! Haha, I'm so used to John using the slap technique. Without a doubt one of my favorite Mayer songs to date. Can't deny how powerful and poetic an artist he is.
Not a problem! I saw on different videos that there were different versions and spellings of the lyrics, so I figured this song was great enough to be worth doing right. I even downloaded the mp3. This is the real John Mayer we used to know.
Played this as I found out I was going to be a dad. Now the phrase "everything you'll ever be, you already are to me" is tattooed on me.
ok well im sobbing now
@@guiltycazlet hahah I just read his comment and came to say the same thing! I just watched the video of JM playing it at his show 2 days ago and had to find this video :)
I’ve been a huge John Mayer fan for 20+ years! Seen him in concert twice and this is the first time I’ve heard this! I thought of getting a tattoo of this sentence for my only child, Shelby & I see others did it too!
And this is why I think someone needs to record it with that context. . . Stay tunedddddddd
People love to hate on JM because if you were to take any single one of his aspects (singing, songwriting, musicianship) and look at them individually, he would still be better than 95% of artists today, yesterday and long, long ago. So when you put those 3 together, you get somebody that is so freakin' talented, it just isn't fair. People that are hired to "write good songs" for other artists can't even write as good as JM does.
Someone who refuses to acknowledge talent is closing his sense to art.
Not even worth to have that conversation
Everything you'll ever be, you already are to me.
Damn.
Right??
WHY IS THIS NOT RECORDED DAMNIT JOHNNY
looks like he'll be recording it soon!
Mitchell Tornquist really!? when!? why!? i love this song!
"Zero" Album
Marianne Orset why not Hummingbird or Little Corvette??? Please, John!!!
IKR :(
Only John can write a song this beautiful and not release it. I've tried writing songs, and i would be hella lucky if I could write a song with a fraction of as much meaning/beauty as this.
It's 2022. I'd heard bits of this song but only found this full version today.....and Ive cried. This is the best love song he's ever written. Thank goodness for John Mayer
I was fortunate enough to experience this performance in Milwaukee. I still don’t have words. It was that moving. He just busts out a song for the first time. He wrote it in his hotel bathroom and decided to reveal it on that particular night. I get chills just thinking about it
Same, but it's 2023.
This was the first and only concert i have ever been to and i will never forget these 3 minutes
Logan Dolenshek bruh you’re the dude with the killer neon cover! Used it so many times for practice!
I've heard all of his songs thousands of times and memorized every single one of them.
This is his best piece ever written. Period.
this beats anything Ed Sheeran, Biebler, Shaun Mendes will ever write. Johns an actual musician and poet.
I was at this show. Souls were shifted during this song
I’ve been a huge John Mayer fan for 20+ years! Seen him in concert twice and this is the first time I’ve heard this! I thought of getting a tattoo of this sentence for my only child, Shelby!
Beautiful,? I watch you try
To see yourself through other's eyes
But mirrors are a losing game
They only show you backwards anyway
The magic and the misery
Come and go so easily
But everything you'll ever be
You already are to me
And you were only five years old
Playing princess in your mother's clothes
Could you feel me standing next to you
With my plastic sword and playground shoes
Saying "If my dear I'm wrong somehow
May dragons come and fell me now
'Cause everything you'll never be
You already are to me."
Why, I don't know why
I don't know why you think you need to do it
How, I don't know how
I don't? know how but I just sit back and I see my way right through it
When the memories are ten feet tall
Throwing shadows on your bedroom wall
When you pull the shades and kill the lights
Will you hear me singing out tonight?
Days are long and words are cruel
They wont get the best of you
Because everything youll ever be
You have always been to me
Saying "if my dear i'm wrong somehow,
May dragons come and fell me now.
'cause everything you'll ever be,*
@@almost5198 fell?
@@atisoz yeah it means to cut it knock down a tree. It’s also used like this, to describe killing/attacking people. Hope this helps, if that was your question in the first place :)
Covered in Rain never got a studio version either... my favourite Mayer song
represent
I don't think a studio version would do anything for the song. The live version was perfection.
jescano206 I think everyone would be fine with this version but they were referring to a studio quality version. Like in "In Your Atmosphere" when they actually recorded the performance not on a mobile phone
I was at this show. I can’t explain how beautiful- souls were moved!
Wish he released this, still hoping, probs one of my favourites by him
I think this is one of the most refreshing, honest, and raw songs John has written in a long time.
I wonder if John ever thinks about this song
He's played it on his sob rock tour and the solo acoustic tour in 2023
He does, cos I do. I sung it today out of nowhere because it’s top 10
Whoever recorded this, you da MVP
Please freaking put this song in rotation and put it on an album!
Poems like these doesn’t just pop up. You have to be the master of a craft to do something like this. And master of an instrument to compose beautiful melodies like this to make the poem ten times more beautiful..
This is officially my first comment on RUclips. This is one of John's best...easily.
it only took one verse to make this one of my new favorites. so great
every night when I’m sad, or overthinking, i come to this video and listen to this song while I think about life.
although I never understood all of this lyrics, It touches and intrigues me in a way that I just cannot explain.
I'm still waiting for this song.
Haha I discovered a little over 4 years ago and tonight, i was thinking the exact same thing
Such a beautiful John Mayer love song. King of Sob Rock is also the King of Love. Love it. Love him
Am i the only one who has recognized the crazy subtle 4/4 time signature change to 6/4 and back again and back again?!? On top of the beyond goosebumps worthy lyrics alone?!?!?!?!?!
Jacob its not 6/4
it’s 3/4 and 4/4
No youre not
@@henrypark194 thats an extremely nitpicky comment considering that it legitimately doesnt matter if you look at it in 3/4 or 6/4 . Kinda goes to show how pretentious you are lmao
I just learned to sing and play the song on guitar. Yes, you're right. It's on two different time signatures, (verses vs intro/interludes.) It took me about a while to wrap my head and my fingers around it. My vocals wantes to sing 3/4 but my fingers 4/4. 😂😂😂. It's brillant!
Those switches from 4/4 to 3/4 threw me off bad, but the feel of this song is so melancholy and accepting. Greatness
Danced to this at our wedding
Would be so perfectly beautiful with my future wife..
congrats, thats my plan
where did you find a recorded version of this?
this is absolutely phenomenal
I think this is my favorite song he has ever written. Beautiful.
It's funny just now finding this song and seeing comments from 10 years ago.
This song is everything to me!
no, actually it's "Everything you'll ever be" ;) hahaha
one of my favorite mayer songs without a doubt
Yesterday, it was awesome. This guy has such a great voice; and on the top of it, he plays a lot. It was amazing.
still one of the most beautiful songs ever created
"When the memories are 10ft tall, throwing shadows on your bedroom wall"
I don't care who this song is about, I don't care that he's lacking a awesome guitar rift.. I just care about the happiness I feel right now thanks to him. This song is beautiful.. This is my John Mayer. It's good to have him back.
I love John because every emotion a human goes through he has written or writing a song about it. All his songs are like the soundtrack to life. He is so complicated and a person can barely understand him but when he sings he brings us right where he wants and we understand everyword. We get caught in the feeling and moment of every song to where the only to feel that again is the listen to the song again..
the most beautiful song i have ever heard from john mayer!
There is no point in recording this!It is already perfect!It has to sound the way it sounds!This is pure art!From the heart!My favourite song!So relateble!Love you man!
ive never been able to pick my favourite john mayer song but now this is definately it. it deserves to be on his next record
still one of my favorites he's ever written, still hoping it sees the light of day on a record or b-sides collection
"beautiful i watch you try to see yourself through others eyes the mirrors are a losing game they only show you backwards anyways" - John Mayer via making me cry ....this man and his lyrics
This song hit me so hard. I love it immensely. It reminds me of how I feel sometimes and someone so special to me.
This is brought tears to my eyes. Absolutely amazing.
songs like this convince me that there is so much good in this man.
This song is incredible... This is exactly what he needs to do. Keep it simple and make music that speaks to people without thinking too hard about it.
one of the deepest songs he has ever written
As I guitarist I’m in awe of this guitar part, this is a beautiful song 🥲
I was at this show. I left part of my heart there… mostly b/c of this song. It was a spiritual experience
How could 8 people possibly dislike this? the only reason someone could have to dislike this is if they were deaf and therefore unable to listen.
Beautiful
So beautiful john is such a great song writer . HE SINGS FROM HIS HEART IN EVERY SONG .❤❤❤
1st verse, you'll say "oh, just another song for a girl he likes."
2nd verse, you'll hear, 5years old, mothers clothes, you'll say "that would be his daughter."
"Everything you'll ever be, you have always been to me."
A father will always be proud of his little girl. No need to prove anything.
This isn’t about children. This is about his soulmate.
@@MAGA4PNUT so true. So deep
Please release this song in your future album, John. This song is beyond beautiful.
God bless you for posting this. Changed my life.
Still waiting for this in 2017.
I demand a studio version. Great words, great song... This and Taking On Water have to be released as some kind of EP or something.
OMFG!!!!! HEARD THIS IN THE BEGINNING stages at his soundcheck in Huntsville Alabama on Feb 5 2007. The line about her being a princess stuck in my friggin head for days. Now to hear it again...Must have a moment.
This was so fantastic to see. The crowd intensely listening made it all the better!
So weird that my favorite song of him is the unreleased song.. This song is just perfect to me.
Views are well into the 6 figures and it makes perfect sense. One of the best musicians/artists of all time, the first time performing a new song, and EXCELLENT camera and audio work. Thank you!
I'm crazy about music and listen to insane amount of records. but John Mayer is the only one so far whose music can make me cry. I don't know what this means.
That's very true, and perceptive. Covered In Rain, In Your Atmosphere, Who Did You Think I Was, Another Kind of Green, Out of My Mind, Come When I Call, Good Love Is On The Way, and this song are all incredible! Yet, I get the feeling he doesn't release them on studio albums because the record company doesn't feel they'd be good. I could be way off, but if you watch his 2008 Berklee Clinic on here, he basically explains how record companies work in terms of album content.
Blessed man, voice and guitar. He's just amazing!!!
this song is freaken good! his song writing ability is insane!
Just when you think there is no possible way to love John Mayer more... he writes this!
It is beyond my comprehension how you are able to write all these songs. Loved the post with you going to work in the red shell suit. I laughed so hard I nearly choked. The thing is back in the day I had a similar shell suit ie track suit bx
I forgot about this song! I really love this one! Glad I found it again!
AMAZING show last night. this song was great.. i really hope this makes it into the studio sometime. this is the best version i found on youtube. excellent quality. thanks for the upload.
This song brought tears to my eyes. Absolutely amazing.
Listening to this song i feel it's johns way of trying to express to us and in someways and more importantly himself how he really feels, his inner insecurities and his struggle within himself to never quite live up to an image he formed of how he thinks he should act and should be. The answer i think is that hes actually always been that person hes desired so much to be, just unable to see it until now. Always trying so hard to fit in and be liked by everyone instead of just being himself.
Yeah... This song's perfect. The lyrics are ever so sad, but so friggin' beautiful. I don't even need to quote one part of it; it's every single word. God I wish I was there. Truly hope this gets to be some kind of studio version in the future...
Most beautiful Mayer song to date...Every time I think I'm done with his music, and he has gone and become too mainstream he comes up with these songs that just transcend everything and become something else. Sometimes I wonder what it is like to put all of your fears and other emotions into music like this, I guess it's hard to be Mayer, being so sensitive, but at least he gets to put it into music ~
beautiful song. hope to hear in in a record or live album soon!
No slap-picking?! Haha, I'm so used to John using the slap technique. Without a doubt one of my favorite Mayer songs to date. Can't deny how powerful and poetic an artist he is.
Man thank god for John I look up to him so much
Noticing the timing of this show. Bless his heart.
This is a gem!
holy baby jesus im so glad i ran into this video!!!
amazing.. im looking foward to new music from this guy.. He needs to go back to songs like this.. beautiful .
what a beautiful... beautiful song.
You can tell that this song has so much meaning to him. Maybe he wrote it after all of the recent events?
So many great lines...
Just found this video being a 4 year long John Mayer fan. Wow wow wow
He's done it again! Goose bumps:)
he needs to record this...i am pretty sure this would be my favorite song...anyone agree?
thank you so much for uploading this
John Mayer- Assassin Music Video Now Up On RUclips
absolutely beautiful.
aw this such a cute song!!!
goosebumps, this is unbelievably sweet
Thank you John
he writes the most beautiful songs, ever.
Wooow !! Sooo beautiful !
Not a problem! I saw on different videos that there were different versions and spellings of the lyrics, so I figured this song was great enough to be worth doing right. I even downloaded the mp3. This is the real John Mayer we used to know.
i never knew there was a true definition of perfect..until i watched this video.
or taking on water, and MANY other absolutely beautiful songs.
awesome!
This song NEEDS a full release for the love of all the GODS
This song is beautiful.
Does anyone else get reminded the the Goo Goo Dolls' song "Iris" when he sings the line "Will you hear me singing out tonight?"
I think of more like Dave Matthew’s band crash in a way
You better record this John. I won`t take no for an answer! :)
finally. a song from the heart..this is what was missing from battle studies cleverly crafted all-brain-no-heart lyrics and melodies.