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  • THIS!!

  • I don't know about you guys, but this the kind of song where I just go "wow, where did that come from?,"

  • i like this so much more than friends lovers nothing

  • haha the chords of the chorus are the same of those in 'friends lovers or nothing' where he goes - 'anything other than yes is no, anything other than stay is go, anything less than i love you is lying'! :p

  • Man I love that the audience is so quiet and respectful throughout the performance so you can actually hear the music, but then at the end of the song still let him hear what a talent he is. I wish all live performances on youtube were more like that.

  • when does his new album come out?!?!

  • @charissaonline OCTOBER!!!

  • friends lovers or nothing. thats where you can find the studio version of this song.

  • Does anyone know where we can get a studio version of this song??? I want it so bad that it HURTS!!!!!

  • Someones gonna feel "The Hurt" if this song isn't on the new Born & Raised album.

  • @manbearsloth couldn't agree more

  • As much as I agree with everyone on the humbleness of it, I want a studio version too!!! Anyone know where???

  • His string slaps are fucking rough.

  • one of his greatest song..too deep..this song......

  • John takes all the good song titles

  • This is why I love John. He's popular enough to where we have videos like this at our availability, yet he's not to "cool" or popular to show up in a bar or hotel cafe to play songs. This is the way I want him to be. Perfect

  • sounds like tears in heaven a little bit

  • I love him, he the most amazing songwriter and singer in the world. Now where can

    I get this song?

  • This man is one of the most talented musicans of today.

  • I love this thanks john for sharing your music with the world!

  • every song that he makes is so deep....

  • i love this version and all but man i wish the quality was better. but i love it and i still watch it all the time!

  • I've watched this video so many times, but it still blows me away. So great.

  • this song is too good for words thank you much

  • I'm sooo happy I bumped into this song.

  • I love this his music is soothing to the soul

  • the tune sounds like the last 2 minute of friends, lovers or nothing in battle studies... awesome song though... =)

  • @yaz87 it's like the same chord's as the end of friends lovers or nothing.

  • @yaz87 We kinda transformed this music, "The hurt" into "Friends, lovers or nothing", I saw a video where he said that.

  • This song is unbelievable.

    

  • @manbearsloth

    wow thank you so much for saying what I havent been able to figure out how to say :)

    yes it is a treat for us!!

  • this is SUCH a great song. I kind of hope these rare ones don't make an album for that same reason that they're like a treat for his true fans :)

    does anyone think his voice has gotten like a lot deeper since this? i almost miss this old voice :/ but i still love him just as much now!

  • Same chord progression as the breakdown in friends lovers or nothing!

  • I really like that song. wow

  • what album is the song on? this seems like a great venue for all these songs, wish I was there, with a becks in my hand

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  • First time I'm hearing this song, looove it!

  • How do i get this song on my iPod ;~; it's not on any one of his albums. HELP?

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  • I cannot believe this is not on an album...I'm speechless.

  • one of my favorite live jm vids :)

  • so much better like this... although the lyrics are kind of a stream of conscious

  • I want this song on a fucking album. Everybody needs to hears this song.

  • @aggiepunk09...He said in an interview that it's just the artist selection and that this song was even fully finished or something along those lines...XP I love the song though.

  • @aggiepunk09 he used the chorus chord sequence from this for the outro on 'Friends, Lovers or Nothing'.

  • @aggiepunk09 The music part is actually on an album already. Listen to the end of "Friends, Lovers, or Nothing".

  • @aggiepunk09 This and Over and Over

  • "Anything other than yes is no"

  • It's almost the same melody of "Friends, Lovers or Nothing"

  • it is.. watch one of the live versions, he says you may recognise this.. its the ending part,

  • it is the same melody...just slowed down..not to say anything against "friends, lovers or nothing", but i really hoped this wudda been on over that song..

  • great song with poignant lyrics. im really feeling it right now

  • one of the best lyrical melody/flows i have ever... ever heard

  • I was so dissapointed that this song wasn't on Battle Studies, it's beautiful. On the other hand, a lot of his music sounds better when played live, because he creates small changes every time. Good on You John. Can't wait to see you in Denmark in May.

  • Well, he kinda recycled the chord sequence for the outro on "Friends Lovers or Nothing," so in a way it kinda did make it onto Battle Studies

  • This song is great. Mayer's unreleased songs are better than 95% of artists artist's released material. Go look up Tracing, Lifelines, In your Atmosphere, This will all make perfect sense, Why did you mess with forever, Tell me what to say, break away, covered in rain, comfortable, sucker, man on the side, everything is not broken, and hummingbird. All unreleased and all are insanely good.

  • @ak231510 haha tracing, in your atmosphere, comfortable, covered in rain, and man on the side have all been released. Just some aren't studio. But Tracing was a b side to bigger than my body, and comfortable was on inside wants out.

  • @guitarskater11 they arnt on his studio albums is what I was referring too . RFS, HT, Continuum, BS. Yes, there are live versions of covered in rain and man on the side on AGT, and in your atmosphere is on WTLI. If something shows up on the AS/IS discs or as a b-side, thats not exactly the same thing as releasing it on a studio album is it? Thats what I mean. And you named like 4 or the 20 unreleased songs I named.

  • @ak231510 well it has been released for purchase, so i consider it released haha

  • very disappointed that this isn't on Battle Studies...

  • Listen to the outro of "Friends, Lovers, or Nothing"... it's the rhythmic skeleton of this song

  • yeah, me too. His unreleased songs need to be released, cuz they're awesome!

  • Its the basis for Friends, Lovers, or Nothing. What he's playing right here is technically on the record.

  • @RHCPFitz No it's not. That song is about a breakup and how messy it is afterwards. This song is about him just wanting a relationship with someone so that he can feel alive.

  • Unbelivable lyrics

  • 2005.. wow, things live forever on you tube, and thank goodness for that! i hope there's a hidden track on "friends lovers or nothing" w this at the end like his hotel cafe show in june. mr john mayer please record this somewhere SOON, please ;-}

  • this is not at the end of friends lovers or nothing. i have heard the cd.

  • The chord progression is the same but not the actual song. This is great song though.

  • wow funny thing is there kinda is...

  • cada minuto mas enamorada de el!! por dios...

  • this songs not on the album. but friends lovers or nothing is, so unless plays the hurt in that song, which i doubt he;d do on the album then the hurts not on the album. sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

  • Yeah he is.. the hurt is incorporated in friends lovers or nothing.. there's a youtube clip of him recording it in the studio.. check it out

  • i think what hes dont incprparating them is immense but i keep seeing people say both songs will be on the record i really hope the hurt isnt on it in this form i want him to have changed it somehow

  • No I promise you.. I know for a fact.. It's on the song "Friends, Lovers, or Nothing." at the end.. it's kind of like an outro

  • That doesnt mean hurt will be the outro for FLON on the album. He always plays bits of other songs at live shows. Every day I have the blues he played at the end of Bold as Love on the Where the light is concert. I actually hope it isnt the outro cause this is too good not to be its own songs whether he does it for this album or somewhere down the road, this song is awesome.

  • Go check the video John Mayer posted up.. he categorized the studio version he recorded as a part of the track.. Friends, Lovers, or Nothing.. the track list for Battle Studies is out.. The Hurt isn't one of them.. I'm pretty damn sure it's the outro and ending to the entire Battle Studies album considering Friends, Lovers, or Nothing is the last song on the album.. but check out the video

  • It's not on Battle Studies. I've heard the album

  • It's not even out yet? haha

  • does anyone have an mp3 of this song!!!

  • what is the difference when the song was written? you don't think any singer song writers ever use songs they wrote years prior? how would anyone know, and again, what is the difference??? Its good and it goes with the theme of the album. and anyway we have no idea what will end up on the album anyway

  • i wish hed have a show in my attic, lol

  • If song is too good not to be on an album somewhere, even put it on a future live album but it sad that most people will never hear this one.

  • where can i get this someone send it 2 me

  • This will probably be on his upcoming album, Battle Studies.

  • dont wanna sound bitchy but this was 2005..

  • I'm aware of that. Search for 'Friends, Lovers or Nothing" on YouTube. He plays a version of 'The Hurt' as an outro to that song which leads me to believe that 'The Hurt' will be on Battle Studies in one form or another.

  • Well Johns In + Out-ros are really great always and he offen uses old songs as an in or outro so battelstudies would have 200+ songs on it.

  • Every time he's played Friends, Lovers... so far he's used the hurt... Also, he said that the songs people thought would not make it to the album will be the centre pieces... so go figure.

  • i sure hope so!

  • Huh? He wrote it 3-4 years ago and only now puts it on an upcoming album?

    I thought only the new projects are put on new releases. Weird.

  • a point john himself has made about songs he writes is that they evolve over time . go back listen to room for squares listen to neon then listen to the version from where the light is theres a medium space between them btoh on here where john says he hasnt played in a while all three versions are different basically he now feels the song is ready to be put on an album and hes writing from a similar headspace

  • Personally I prefer the version he played on "where the light is," but the song was released in Room For Squares years before. The fact that he played it different on stage in 2007 doesn't change that fact.

  • well neon was really off of his very first release, inside wants out, back in 99. the way he plays it live in most instances is closest to that original version, but usually with an extended solo bit. its a much better song that way, if you ask me. i like the one of of where the light is much more than, say, any given thursday.

  • Inside wants out precedes Room For Squares?!

    I thought Room for squares was his first album.

  • No Inside Wants Out was first. It was not a full length album. Just like an 8 song EP.

  • Yeah, my mistake. I figured it out shortly after I posted the message :P

    It's amaizing how talented he is. Do you know how many youngsters aspire to acheive acclaim by music and never really make it big? Just look at YT and how many musicians it has.

    It means that in order for John to achieve such a level of exposure so early in his life(he was 22 when his first album came out) he needed to be really special.

  • @AlanDavidMusic yes but the presence of neon on that "EP" makes it album worthy! =)

  • Haha I agree. I like that version better than the version on Room For Squares.

  • This is on room for squares??

  • @Willieheadable no we were having a discussion about Neon. Sorry kinda random to be talking about Neon on this vid haha

  • Oh alrit i was wonderin what the fuck ye wer on about!!?!?!:D

  • This is a good song but I like Cat Stevens` "The Hurt" better. Check it out, there`s a good live clip of it on You Tube also.

  • completely different song, so irrelevant lol

  • ahhh i love this song

  • People are idiots if they think JM didnt write the lyrics for evey song he sings. Some stuff on RFS was written by him and his old friend Clay Cook, but other than that they are all JMs lyrics. I have a video up about the recording process for the song In Repair, where you actually see him coming up with and writing lyrics. He did a comedy bit where he tried to get a few stupid girls to think that Richards Marks writes all of his songs, apparently it worked a little too well.

  • that was soooo funny...John Mayer has a TV show...those stupid ass girls bought every word he said...good stuff!

  • @ak231510 Thank you for this... People need to grow brains. It's nice to know some people still have them and can understand a joke. This is honestly not sarcasm, I'm being dead serious. I hate it when people say that he doesn't write his own music. Same goes for Jason Mraz. They're both amazing, and they both write their own music.

  • Nice tune...never heard it before. Makes me wonder how many of his songs never make "the cut" for albums.

  • yeah i hope that someday they release a box set thing with tons of unreleased songs

  • ...damn, that's pretty.

    I hope he releases this soon. :)

  • yeah dude.. that was a, how do i put this, joke...

  • yeah dude.. that was a, how do i put this, joke...

  • Sir, if you are talking about where he made his own T.V. show, that whole show was a joke. If you could not catch the sarcasm then you sir, are the idiot.

  • woww dumbbbb

  • Dude, he said at a concert he wrote this song while waiting for his laundry. That TV show where he said he doesn't write his lyrics was a joke. Idiot.

  • what??? dude u suck

  • what is "the hurt" from?

  • it was unreleased, so here is probably the only place youre going to hear to it, unless its on his new one

  • that's too bad... thanks man

  • what album*

  • Sorry buddy but you're wrong on about all of that. actually all songs on Continuum were written by john mayer except for Bold as Love, and vultures and Gravity which he credited the entire John Mayer Trio for...which btw means he wrote them, he just threw on Pino and Steve's names because they helped him creatively.

  • bold as love is a JImi Hendrix song. he just covered it. and he wrote the lyrics to all the songs, the trio came up with the tunes.

  • yea that's what I said. I made the assumption that anyone worth listening to on any of these discussion boards (its still debatable if anyone is worth listening to) knew that Bold as Love is an incredibly famous Hendrix tune

  • that was a joke on the tv show dumbass lol. it was a "comedy" show

  • i thought he didnt write some of his older stuff too.

  • He co-wrote it with Clay Cook, his former 'bandmate' waaaay back in the day. :)

  • Huh?

  • Do you own any John mayer cd's? or any cd's at all? Read the booklet, there should be some clarification there of who wrote the songs. Every song on his albums that's not a cover has been written by him, with the exception of a couple tracks (vutltures, akog) that where written by him and the trio..I think yours is a legitimate concern, but why would they bother hiding it? everybody knows most pop artists don't write their songs, but they still sell, sometimes even more than everyone esle.

  • shut the fuck up asshole. stop trying to provoke people by saying stupid shit.

  • I doubt that he could get so many songs written in the same style. Well, he could, but not in THIS style. Dude went to Berklee!

  • He went for a year and dropped out. Berklee taught him some song structure but he's matured over time and so has his music.

  • you're exactly right

  • sounds like BS, to be honest

  • You're an idiot, stop talking.

  • how does he do it? how does he write these amazing lyrics that are just SO universal. many times i have listened to his songs and said to myslef "omg someone else feels that way too?" or "he explained the emotions so clearly and poetically". BOTTOMLINE: he is AMAZING!!! no doubt about it.

  • Being alone is a feeling we all share. People are people, you're never alone about a feeling. Somewhere, someone's feeling the same thing, whether it be love or despair

  • He should definitely put this on his next album...I say just clean up the quality on this video and use this...

  • It's ironic I just watched a Jessica Simpson saying "I'm in a really good place" and felt I had to listen to this song, because of such a similiar lyric. I have to wonder if everyone isn't after the same exact thing in different ways...

  • lyrical genius

  • I can't believe they cut some of the song out. Towards the end, you can tell. I never noticed that b4! :(

  • this is the best song I think I've ever heard from him!

  • this is an amazing song. great lyrics

  • I just wanna have it be known how much I love John Mayer. He is beyond words. Inspiring. Uplifting. Deep. What I wish I was and what I wish I could do. I thank him for getting me through some hard times. As crazy as that sounds. He has changed my life. <333

  • Word for word I agree with you

  • I so feel what you are saying...Not only is he talented but the fact that he know what he wanted to do with his life at the age of 13!!! The words of such wisdom that comes out of his mouth.

    John has touched my life as well

  • its going to be on his next album

    he said it didnt fit on continuum so itll be on the next one

  • When does it come out?

  • my god this needs to be released badly.

  • Email me I have the mp3.

  • Can I have the Mp3 please?

  • when will this be released

  • probably won't

  • i checked for this on itunes, cant find it?!! why?

  • its unreleased

  • !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

  • sexy

  • and

  • hot

  • sooo

  • You're

  • you

  • I love

  • mayer

  • john

  • why the fuck isnt this on a cd?? is he stupid or something? this song is genius!!

  • how can one man be this good?

  • I felt this song... I felt it in my chest.

    Someone please tell me were I can get this song (acoustic)

  • I doubt you'll find it except here... this song isn't on a single one of his albums, unfortunately.

  • Thanks,

    It's a shame I really love this song

    It's sung with such emotion