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  • I just started seeing the most beautiful woman I've ever seen and she played this song to me in the car on our way back to her house last night. As if I needed anymore reason to believe she's the best ever.

  • BEST SONG EVER

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  • Brilliant song, great lyrics. Just a great figure eight or a tiny infinity. What is this? Hopelessly in love? Or hanging on to a loss cause?

  • @aaaBt I see them as meaning the same thing. Both are infinite loops...

  • John you are a lyrical genius and in my opinion this is your finest work. I can honestly say this song moves me.

  • It doesn't matter how old are or where you come from a Heart breaks all the same. But try not to get caught up in their games. Buyer beware!

  • Makes me cry everytime.

  • i'LIKE, this amazing song...

  • Tonight, I biked in the rain to tell my ex-girlfriend that I still loved her...

  • @xPeww i still love my ex-boyfriend... it is very painful.. i wish he could listen to this song .

  • @marie2g and @xPeww you should be together then o_O

  • @marie2g I'm sorry to hear that, the nexus of desire and insecurity is probably the worst extreme in the gamut of human emotion.

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  • when the intro started i thought of waves by guthrie govan

  • He has made a real repertoire of songs at this point and this one is close to the top, seriously awesome.

  • I'm not a big fan of this "new" album.. But today i listened to this song.. and wow..

  • I just cried after the solo and the way he sings after the solo.. every time especially when I imagine I'm playing it. I just can't imagine a world without music like John does.

  • @grilllhouse Oh shit..are you me?

    I had the exact same experience a day ago as well. This song is...truly amazing. 

  • I was going to comment about raping the replay button, but obviously someone already did.

  • single please

  • This song is full of passion. Just imagine yourself losing your girl and sing the chorus out loud on a top of a mountain

  • From being closer to the edge (30 sec to mars) or at The edge of glory (lady gaga) I would always choose THE EDGE OF DESIRE (john mayer) no doubt about it !!!

  • i want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe

    There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me -<3 <3 so truee

  • what a freak'n good song.....dannnnggg.....got this on replay

  • 30 ppl are stupid...

  • Wow... I've never heard this. This is beautiful.

  • my girlfriend hates john mayer, but i'm still with her cuz i'm not a idiot

  • @Migas128 yeah, but she probably hates him for reasons completely unrelated to music, which always annoys me when people allow celebrity to affect the enjoyment of music.

  • @ak231510 so fucking annoying yes, and the best part is that they say they hate Assholes but actually loves them more than those boys with pussies, they actually listen to John Mayer secretly in their room when they need to work out the Emotions -.-

  • @ak231510 Why would anyone hate him other than his music? He is one of the funniest people ever. I hate when people don't get his humor.

  • Fucking brilliant. John Mayer has done it again

  • Absolutely beautiful song. You can look at it in anyway you like.. Have a listen to a few of our latest track: Lucid- 'Colourful'?

  • Everything John Mayer is gold

  • thank you john mayer, this song get's me through the day, it speaks within my soul .. this song is beautiful <3

  • AHH! Why is this song sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­o good?!!??!

  • I heard this song is about Taylor Swift, is that true?

  • @Rrosie13 false.

  • lovely song !

  • close your eyes and listen to it, it sounds bettter and feels sadder

  • "don't say a word, just come over and lie here with me" <3

    John Mayer is one of the most brilliant artists of our time :)

  • i think im in love with this song <3

  • From being Closer to the edge Or to the Edge of glory I prefere the EDGE OF DESIRE

  • this is my song right now. just ended a long distance relationship. it was just too hard. we still adore eachother, but somethings just cant be. at least not right now. its hard, so hard. this song is perfect for how i feel. beautiful beautifulllll song.

  • @drea1286 You know what, that is exactly the same thing i'm going through i know exactly how you feel, and this song is the only thing that is keeping me going, loved a girl so blindy and would of done anything for her but i had to let her go cuz love is not enough, but i think of her every time i play this song but some times i just feel like sayin "dont say a word just come over and lay here with me" but i know it will never work out :( its so hard letting go and trying to stick to your guns!

  • this song, for the past 3 years, has always done it. brings me back to that crush, that one guy who was always so close but yet so very far from where I truly wanted us to be. especially when he says "I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe...there I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me".

  • oh my gosh so much emotion i am crying.

  • man this song is the words that describe how u i feel wend some girl just plays with my heart and tells me she loves me but now it easy for girl to tell you they love you all thou they dont feel like that............:(

  • Oh my god.

    I just cried.

    This song is perfect for a breakup.

  • How does John Mayer do it? He takes a situation all of us at least think about, and he puts it into words we never would of thought about using, but are exactly what we were thinking. He puts them to the most beautiful melodies, and sings them with all his heart. His voice gives me the chills. I love him so much.

  • @lovestudio1 I totally agree. I think he is one of the greatest songwriters I have ever seen and heard. Unlike anyone I have ever listened to. This song makes me cry.

  • litterally my favorite song ever. like words can not even describe it. the lyrics, his voice, the way he sings it, the song... its just amazing. john mayer is slowly turning my life upright again.

  • No matter what mood im in, whether i feel like listening to a sad slow song or an upbeat one to use up my energy I always find myself listening to this song. I can honestly say ive never heard a song where I can actually feel what the singer is feeling. The emotion in this song is absolutely amazing and thats why i love it. I can also say this is the first video ive ever taken the time to comment on.

  • my iTunes says I have listened to this a total of 76 times. it never gets old!!!!

  • this album is no where near his best, but this is my favorite song out of the whole thing. it makes me think of a summer relationship that i had, the lyrics describe the whole thing perfectly. as it turns out, ending it was the best thing that coulda happened (:

  • WOW OMG I LOVEEEE THISOMG OMG <3 <3 xD

    lol

  • if only the cover art wasnt so gay

  • This has been my current favorite song ever since i listened to kendall schmidt and logan henderson sing it. They covered this song really well. i love their cover and the original <3

  • Maybe one of the only albums actually worth buying right now.

  • its about falling in love, and losing it after saying you wouldnt care if you did, because you dont know what you got until its gone...

  • Captures so much emotion. It is RAW.

  • there I just said it...I want you to reach out to me......

  • this song has to be my favourite song in the world. if only it was about me :/ 

  • chills.

  • its like he expresses feelings that i have better than i could express them myself, and he does it beautifully. god bless john mayer

  • ..... soo ambient that its best not to think too much about its meaning but just let the whole sensation and the atmosphere wash over you, ambient sensations that i can only relate to the most lucid moment in the deepest dreams. Truly profound to ever get to feel what we feel when we pump Johnies tunes!!

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  • I'm going to break the replay button.

  • @billyjean4ever  me too!

  • Song of Solomon 8:6 "Place me like a seal over your heart,like a seal on your arm.For love is as strong as death,its jealousy as enduring as the grave.Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.7 Many waters cannot quench love,nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth,his offer would be utterly scorned." Awesome.

  • "Love is really nothing. But a dream that keeps waking me. For all of my trying, we still end up dying.How can it be?" Deep stuff. There is love "the feeling", and love "the doing". Love is like a small, slow death. You really can't explain it. Cause either way looking for it, or trying to make it work you are changing just to have it, and parts of who you are soon become "who I use to be". The bible, Song of Solomon Ch 8 verse 4 "Do not awaken love, until it so desires". The rest fits 2.

  • This song makes me cry every time I hear it. I feel like he's singing it to the one he will marry one day, but he feels like he hasn't met her yet. Every love song he sings feels like he's singing it for her. It's always been for her. I'm single, I always hold my hands in the air and ask where the heck are you already? I wonder where my husband is all the time. I'm in love with him already but I don't know where the heck he is. This song makes me think about him & I cry,I miss him :(

  • He's been lonely for a long time. He spent his youth doing "life" and it hasn't taken him to the thing that matters to him the most. Love. His greatest desire is to be loved...and he desires To love. He's longing for "the one" waiting at the edge of his desire. The fire is his passion, he needs to be with her. It's a physical need, but more of a heart cry. He just wants her by his side, when she arrives he just wants to be close to her.

  • This song makes me want to make out with someone. I've never even kissed anyone yet. Not even kidding. WOO GO JOHN.(:

  • After my break up I cried to this song every. single. time. I heard it!....It was exactly what I was feeling. Now, months later...I still feel how I felt in my stomach when I would hear this. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG!

  • @suavecitapr im right with you. i miss her so bad. i hadnt thought of this song til right now. so im laying on my floor listening to it thinking of her beautiful smile and tearing up. i wish life didnt have these hardships...

  • the only adjective that could describe this song is "sexy"

  • I'm officially in love w/ john

  • i love this song so much.. x

  • Can someone explain what this song tells people...

    What's his message?

    What's the message his giving..

    What is he trying to say..

  • @Christian107FCB "I want you so bad i'll go back on the things I believe, there I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me" That line is essentially what the song is about. You believe the relationship is not a forever kind of thing so it ends, but you still have those moments of "hey I still want you" and not believing there will be a time where the two of you will go back to being strangers, "scared you'll forget about me" So the song is just those feelings of ending a relationship

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    your definitely right but theres more. My favorite line in the song "Young and full of running, tell me where has that taken me?" hes saying there that throughout his social life the last few years (not his whole life cause john didnt get a lot of girls in hs) hes just been wild or something like that something a "young" person would do

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    and "just a great figure 8, or a tiny infinity" there hes saying has being wild been worth it because of the bad boy reputation? or a waste cause it causes him to lose out on love. at least thats what i think and then the rest of what u said (which again i think is correct) connects cause its like hes telling the woman this over the phone and hes saying whether it was worth it or not i just want you to "come over and lie here with me"

  • @SwaggTastic213 yeah, you are right, I actually had something like that written down, but ran out of room so I had to condence it. Great figure 8 and tiny infinity are the same thing just two different ways of looking at it. Something that keeps going around, but if its "great" then you dont care cause you are enjoying it, but if its a tiny infinity, then its just a meaningless repetition, both ways of looking at being a unattached bachelor vs being in a relationship

  • @SwaggTastic213 My interrpretation is he's speaking about his admiration of the feminine form and how the figure is also the symbol of infinity. It's just turned sideways.

  • @ak231510 well put!

  • @Christian107FCB He's scared of loving and doubts the love the other person's sincerity because of pains incountered in the past...setting fire to everything he sees = the ability we all have to sabatoge something good when we're afraid!

  • @Christian107FCB "I'm just about to set fire to everything I see" Powerful..... The desire to willingly destroy everything you've worked to gain, for one special reason...... love. "Edge of Desire" sends the message to a lost romantic interest that strong passion still exists within the heart of the sender, even though the love interest is completely unaware. It's a song about a lost love. Some women you easily forget and some not so easily.

  • @Christian107FCB It's about needing a lover that's out of reach, basically. I can relate to this song a lot. Most people can.

  • @Christian107FCB Get your heart broken, and then you'll know.

  • The thing i really like about Mayer is that his CD's are actually worth buying. He always has multiple songs that aren't on the radio that are well done.

  • My favorite jm song. I get something from it every time it plays.

  • John Mayer, Pino Palladino and Steve Jordan. It doesn't get much better than that these days.

  • A tiny infinity...

  • I could listen to this song every day for the rest of my life and wouldn't mind it a bit.

  • Mayer is a soft rock legend!!!!!!

  • as soon i start hearing this song, i being to cry. instantly. :( i hate that this song is sooo good!! :/

  • Ele é um gênio!

  • i wish people would stop arguing and shut up and just listen to his awesomeness!

  • never do i hear or listen to songs where i am absolutly blown away by sheer talent and musicality, this song is one of those that blows me away

  • i miss you

  • very well written song and many people can relate to this song

  • I miss you.

  • gonna sing this to her

  • best song of the album

  • a challenging song to play. good on ya john for making challenging guitar songs... nowadays songs are in the basic four chord progression

  • Amazing song. Leaving for US Army in 27 days. This song will definately be playing on my mp3 player on the airplane ride. I honestly think this song means much more to me in my life right now than John Mayer himself. Lol

  • @jyp523 Have a safe trip home :)

  • I get goosebumps everytime

  • I've made a cover of this song. It's a great song from his album Battle Studies.

    Check it out on my page!

  • I just came.

  • great lyrics....

    

  • can you please post lyrics in description box

  • @imqtkd just added them, thanks

  • like slow dancin in a burnin room!

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  • @amanda199224 what do you meannn?

  • i think this song is the best song on the album.....wow he is talented....anyone who can put into words and music this exact emotion....well i applaud it!!! I know this feeling.... oh so well!

  • There is an underlying melody here it kind of just revealed itself to my ear.. it's the guitar strum steady throughout the song- it dips and rises in pitch but maintains the melody- this is the most beautiful thing to hear b/c it speaks of a steady unchanging quality.. sure it changes in pitch but without changing in face- This is powerful because if we just look at this little piece of this song it can speak of an enduring trait of all of our life songs.

  • has anyone seen the crossroads with john mayer and eric clapton? Ive played guitar for 10 years and im telling u right now...john mayer outplayed him....its cold and true

  • COME TO PORTLAND OREGON AGIAN SOON PLEASE!

  • I love him so much he's such an amazing talented man.

    I wish he could come to Portland Oregon soon!

    :D

  • I love him so much he's such an amazing talented man.

    I wish he could come to Portland Oregon soon!

  • John Mayers, you are my edge of desire. I love you 

  • I've listen to all the songs on this album, but haven't bought it yet. It's on the list though. But this whole album is probably his best work yet. I don't know what he can do to follow this up. This is some incredible music.

  • I LOVE YOU JOHN MAYER! MARRY ME!

  • This is beautiful:) I heard this song off big time rush's cover! Logan n kendall n it sounds really amazing too! Check it! You will love it!

  • I love this song but his acoustic version is 10x better. Very haunting.

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  • simply a memory

  • mmmmmmthis song. forever.

  • this is my fav album of his! best one yet and cant wait to see what else he's got coming!!

  • @bluexeyedxbombshell you should listen to Continuum

  • This song is so damn hot!

  • his song a full of love and soulful and he is the best at what he dose

  • Love, Love, Love him. Need I say more

  • There I just said it.....without you I fall to my knees....

    But with you....I soar to the heavens because I can look across the cloud I am flying over and see your hand in mine.....where do we go first? what can we do next? Life is out there....waiting....

  • Love love LOOOOVE John Mayer. One of my favorite artists of ALL time.

  • saw him in houston too! greatttt show. even though he threw out his back playing wiffle ball. haha.

  • I got to see John Mayer perform in Jones Beach in New York, this song was mesmerizing. Absolutely mesmerizing.

  • @formanm19 I saw him in Houston last night..it was the encore song! I totally agree with how awesome this song is!

  • This song is badass. Check my videos out, no harm done, just some good laughs.

  • This is everything. A perfect description of how I am feeling while my love is trying to sort out his life situation and deciding if we can manage being what we want to be with each other. Complete torture to find something so perfect and lovely after a life of heartbreak after heartbreak and have everything up in the air with a giant question mark.

  • @MrsJMohon You're not alone. Best of luck with everything...

  • amazing. enoughh said

  • I love this song. And Kendall and Logan from big time rush do an awesome cover! :)

  • i love this song!!!!

  • I'm sooo in love with his music. I can't stop listening to him. Song after song after song. A beautiful soul.

  • i bawl everytime i hear this...

  • In my opinion, this song is PERFECT!

  • "Love is really nothing

    But a dream that keeps waking me

    For all of my trying, we still end up dying

    How can it be?"

    Oh great, here come the tears.

  • @crumpetsandtea1two3 ..ugh i completely understand... =(

  • @crumpetsandtea1two3 RIIIGGGHHHTTT! I TOTALLY AGREE! What a well written song!

  • this song gets to me every time.

  • He is the best of his generation on the guitar. His songs are also excellent - simple melodies that work in conjunction with the music perfectly - the lyrics always interesting and thoughtful.

  • this is my favorite song by him :D

  • I wish this song never would end..... I think john mayer is Magic.....

  • how old is he?

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