GRAVITY
JOHN
MAYER
SONGWRITER:
JOHN MAYER
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: CONTINUUM
LABEL: SONY
BMG
GENRE: BLUES
ROCK
YEAR: 2006
John Clayton Mayer (/ˈmeɪ.ər/; born
October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and record
producer. Born in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, Mayer attended Berklee
College of Music in Boston, but disenrolled and
moved to Atlanta in 1997 with Clay Cook. Together, they formed a
short-lived two-man band called Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer
continued to play local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a following. After
his appearance at the 2001 South by
Southwest Festival, he was signed to Aware Records, and
then Columbia Records, which
released his first EP, Inside Wants Out. His
following two full-length albums—Room for Squares (2001) and Heavier Things (2003)—did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single "Your Body Is
a Wonderland".
By 2005, Mayer had moved away from the
acoustic music that characterized his early records, and begun performing the blues and rock music
that had originally influenced him as a musician. He collaborated with blues
artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton. Forming
the John Mayer Trio, he
released a live album in 2005 called Try!, and his
third studio album Continuum in 2006. Both albums received critical acclaim, and Continuum earned
Mayer a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
He also won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on
the World to Change". That album was followed
by Battle
Studies in 2009, a return to pop, with a Battle
Studies World Tour.
After having several controversial incidents
with the media, Mayer withdrew from public life in 2010 and began work on his
fifth studio album, Born and
Raised, which drew inspiration from the 1970s pop
music of Laurel Canyon.
However, the discovery of a granuloma on his
vocal cords delayed the release of the album until May 2012, and forced him to
cancel the planned tour. The album received a generally favorable reception,
though was less commercially successful than his previous work. Mayer
began performing as a singer again in January 2013, and that year released his
sixth studio album, Paradise
Valley, which incorporates country music influences. By 2014, he had sold a total of over 20 million albums
worldwide. His latest album, The Search
for Everything, was released in 2017.
In 2015 three former members of the Grateful Dead joined with Mayer and two other musicians to form the band Dead & Company. It is
the latest of several reunions of the band's surviving members since Jerry Garcia's death
in 1995. The band remains active and its tours have been well received.
Mayer's secondary career pursuits extend to
television hosting, comedy, and writing; he has
authored columns for magazines such as Esquire.
He supports various
causes and has performed at charity benefits. He is a
watch aficionado (with a collection he values in the "tens of
millions" of dollars), contributing to the watch site Hodinkee, and has
been on the jury at the Grand
Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève.
"Gravity" is a song by American
musician John Mayer.
It is written by Mayer and produced by Mayer and Steve Jordan.
"Gravity" is featured on three of Mayer's releases: the 2005 live album Try! by the John Mayer Trio, his
2006 studio album Continuum,
and his 2008 live album Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles.
In 2007, the song was released as the third single from Continuum.
Gravity is working
against me
And gravity wants to bring me down
Oh, I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away
Oh, gravity is
working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down
Oh, twice as much ain't twice as good
And can't sustain like a one half could
It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees
Oh, gravity stay the
hell away from me
Oh, gravity has taken better men than me
How can that be?
Just keep me where
the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Come on, keep me where the light is
Come on, keep me where the light is
Come on, keep me where, keep me where the light is.
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