John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
Continuum is probably now, and will always be, on my list of Top 20 Albums of All Time. It is just so…real. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, if one of the songs on this album comes on I just get sucked in. If its despair he’s selling, I’m desperate. If its hope then I’m hopeful. If its inner turmoil then believe me, I’m all torn up.
This song is my absolute favorite off of the album. Sometimes I listen to it on repeat for hours at a time. The imagery is so compelling - I mean…..can’t you imagine two people so desperate to deny the reality of the situation that its almost like they’re slow dancing in a burning room?
D.A.M.N
I listen to this song and grimace. I hold myself. I wanna tear at my clothes. Its just that real to me. Right around 2:45 I get the urge to pound the room. Its not that I’m upset - its just that for that moment, I am feeling every word he’s saying. He is speaking the truth and it didn’t come from a fortune cookie. Hmmm…awwwwwkward - but its the best I can do.
I hope you enjoy this one - I always do.
-Calidre
John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
It’s not a silly little moment,
It’s not the storm before the calm.
This is the deep and dying breath of
This love that we’ve been working on.
Can’t seem to hold you like I want to
So I can feel you in my arms.
Nobody’s gonna come and save you,
We pulled too many false alarms.
We’re going down,
And you can see it too.
We’re going down,
And you know that we’re doomed.
My dear,
We’re slow dancing in a burning room.
I was the one you always dreamed of,
You were the one I tried to draw.
How dare you say it’s nothing to me?
Baby, you’re the only light I ever saw.
I’ll make the most of all the sadness,
You’ll be a bitch because you can.
You try to hit me just to hurt me
So you leave me feeling dirty
Because you can’t understand.
We’re going down,
And you can see it too.
We’re going down,
And you know that we’re doomed.
My dear,
We’re slow dancing in a burning room.
Go cry about it - why don’t you? [3x]
My dear, we’re slow dancing in a burning room,
Burning room [4x]
[3x]
Don’t you think we oughta know by now?
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow?
Don’t you think we shoulda learned somehow?
[4x]
