Lyrics for New Deep as interpreted by spickly

New Deep Lyrics
I'm so alive
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been

Is there a God?
Why is he waiting?
Don't you think of it odd
When he knows my address?
And look at the stars
Don't it remind you just how feeble we are?
Well it used to, I guess

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been

I'm a new man
I wear a new cologne and
You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed
I know what you'll say
'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
I'm over the analyzing
Tonight

Stop trying to figure it out
Deep wil only bring you down
You know, I used to be the back porch poet with a book of rhymes
Always open knowing all the time I'm probably
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
For 'heavier things'

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songbrd
04-22-2004

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Have fun with life. Don't analyze everything and tear it to pieces that you can't enjoy the thing. Stop trying to find meaning in everything or it'll make you depressed. A year ago I was so down because I was trying to find meaning in everything. I thought all the time and forgot to live. I love this song it is so me.

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Jake1410
05-21-2004

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Lyrics Correction:

I'm so alive
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been

Is there a God?
Why is he waiting?
Don't you think of it odd
When he knows my address?
And look at the stars
Don't it remind you just how feeble we are?
Well it used to, I guess

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been

I'm a new man
I wear a new cologne and
You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed
I know what you'll say
'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
I'm over the analyzing
Tonight

Stop trying to figure it out
Deep wil only bring you down
You know, I used to be the back porch poet with a book of rhymes
Always open knowing all the time I'm probably
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
For 'heavier things'

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Jake1410
05-21-2004

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John is being sarcastic and mocking people. "I'm gonna find out just how boring I am and have a good time." I mean c'mon. He's saying be yourself and have fun in life and don't worry about what other people think of you.

He's also saying that all the popular songs recently have become so shallow and so easy to analyze. so he's (sarcastically) becoming just like them and saying "I'm gonna become numb and have no feeling in my songs, and forget the old me, and any song that is a deep song is depressing and will only bring you down unless you don't analyze the song." when in reality people need to analyze songs, just like poetry, but not over analyze them to the point where they lose the meaning that the person was trying to get across.

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jemima
05-24-2004

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To me, this song is about having a good time and not over analyzing life. t's about being "boring" by other people's standards because its more important to be happy by your own standards. I don't think that John Mayer is trying to be sarcastic or mocking, but rather is observing that "deep" nowadays is angstful and sad making a person want to / eventually become numb. New Deep is one of my favourite songs because I think that it is very important to create your own "deep" and not to overanalyze life, but rather to live it in your own way, happily.

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bsella
10-18-2004

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No, he really IS trying to be sarcastic! It says so in the cd booklet! He's saying that this is him, that's what he does, he goes out and analyzes things, he's just that type of guy. And someone else was right, he's also saying that everything nowadays has become so de-sensitized, that we put more measure on cologne than we do on emotion. This is one of my favorite songs on the cd, and I can't help it, he just seems so smart!

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Fudz
12-09-2004

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John is expressing sadness in this song, and disappointment about who he is. He's also expressing that, no matter what, he knows that he won't change. He has accepted who he is at this stage in his life--an overanalyst and a more profound thinker than those around him. Although he's comfortable with who he is, there are times when he wishes he was oblivious to life's more important questions, like the rest of the ignorami out there...and just have a good time.

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jenazabab
02-12-2005

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In this song, I think John Mayer is saying that he's becoming a new man. Especially when he says "Now it's the new deep, down with the old me" and when he says "I'm a new man, I wear my cologne"

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jammerfan
02-25-2005

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The liner notes label this as sarcastic. To me, this song has an incredible transition to it. The whole opening feels like it has a bitter edge to it. Like it's really angry. "I'm gonna find out just how boring I am, and have a good time." He's hurt, upset, and angry. He's full of emotion.

(I take my poetic license by singing "talk is the same cheap sh*t it's been.") So when he sings it this time, it's really dripping with sarcasm.

The next portion to me is what happens when all those emotions die down, and your left trying to understand why you feel the things you do. It's the time when you think with your head and not your heart. You numb your emotions to stop feeling them, so you can reason things out. "Numb is the New Deep." Stopping your emotions lets you think deeply about the things that are going on. All the things that would normally be really deep thoughts, like God and the universe, aren't that signficant because he's stopped his emotions.

The "I'm a new man" part makes me think of the time you figure it out. But your friends know you're just covering it your pain like covering up your body oder with a cheap cologne. It's masking your scent and pretending to be fine, that those emotions aren't there. Which, in turn, causes him to become insecure again and those emotions flood back into him. Because once you open yourself up to emotion, and stop being numb deep in your heart, those feelings come back. "Numb is the New Deep" but this time, instead of talk, we get "I'm over the analyzing." I think that means he's no longer able to think about it, because he's back to feeling it. "Stop trying to figure it out" I just picture him rocking back and forth on a chair clutching a book or a pillow. "Deep will only bring you down." You gotta deal with your emotions, instead of trying to cover them up.

I just get a sense that he wrote this when he was getting frustrated putting together the album. That, by opening himself up to emotions, he kept looking for the right words to express the emotions he feels. And that, at some point, you just have to realize that language can never completely express feelings. And so he named the album "heavier things."

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suburbangraffiti
06-30-2005

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i think its about being jaded

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paradise ice
07-05-2005

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Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule.

Ive never had anyone pin point Life so much as this song. everyone stop stressing, coz no one will EVER find out all of lifes mysteries. and we have to accept it and LIVE.

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Char :)
07-09-2005

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I think this is a song which very much so describes who I am. It is saying, like the above people have mentioned, live life freely. I carry journals, notebooks and quotations books around and i tend to analyze things too much. My mother tells me to relax and be a 16 year old, but I can't! This song encourages me to relax, I like it a lot.

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monkuguy
08-30-2005

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"I'm so alive / I'm so enlightened / I can barely survive / A night in my mind"

after a while all the questions running around inside your head start yielding answers, which in turn point to what we should do. the problem with many really thoughtful people is that their intellectual life consumes everything else - most notably their social life, with all its many facets.

carpe diem - live each day to its fullest - etc etc. the philosophy reflected in such sayings may seem too simplistic to all you depressed artists reading this - but hey, it's what you'll end up with once you've moved past all you angst. (i was suicidal for years...)

it's what this guy ended up with also. the sarcasm in the third verse (fourth in correction) only further emphasises a shift away from futile pondering and towards fruitful action.

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walt2891
01-11-2006

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I disagree with some of the comments that John is being sarcastic. I think he is talkinh about himself. In my opinion John is one of the best writers out there and you can't reach that level without being a seriously hard thinker and too much thinking isn't good for anybody. So I think he's saying enough of the deep thoughts and analysis about everything. Just take it light!

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wokeupinacar
02-13-2006

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its, "is there a God?" not "guy"

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yonni_man
07-19-2006

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haha. John's not gay whoever typed the lyrics! Good spot!

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ninaluvsall
12-15-2006

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one of the most amazing songs ever.
i'm definitely relating to it right now.

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ProudesterMonkey
04-17-2007

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I think this is the "sarcasm"

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule

"fine" and "cool" are the most unconvincing adjectives he could've used here. Do you really believe John would advocate "trying not to find every little meaning in life"?? C'mon people.. he's saying a lot of people do that, they don't care where they came from or what everything means; they're self-serving pleasure-seekers.

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stinaribena
05-14-2007

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It's sarcastic. Jeez, don't think John was being serious, do you?

His reference to a book of rhymes is so personal! I love that. A songwriter should always be in tune with his thoughts and never be "Numb" and John knows it. Guess it gets emotionally exhausting though, combing your life, trying to find a meaning.
But you still do it, 'cause the rewards are worth it.

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stinaribena
05-14-2007

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It's sarcastic. Jeez, don't think John was being serious, do you?

His reference to a book of rhymes is so personal! I love that. A songwriter should always be in tune with his thoughts and never be "Numb" and John knows it. Guess it gets emotionally exhausting though, combing your life, trying to find a meaning.
But you still do it, 'cause the rewards are worth it.

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torman9421
01-09-2008

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I can see where sarcasm can seem apparent, but I don't think it's there. He does use a lot of figurative, tongue-in-cheek language in his lyrics. The premise of the song is honest, though.

He's also said on a number of occasions that, in hindsight, the song is unsatisfactory somehow. I wish he'd clarify what he means, because I like it. The tone sort of typifies him for me. Not every one of his songs has to include some anthemic doctrine on life. He can convey some deep ideas without writing a song like "Belief" every time. Songs like this works best for me as an occasional reminders to loosen my tie every once in a while. Earnest doesn't have to be nauseatingly pensive.

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SimpleFaith
12-02-2008

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I don't know if I'd go as far as "sarcastic," but it's definitely not supposed to be totally sincere.

Like ProudesterMonkey said, "fine" and "cool" are probably the least convincing words you could use. Those are the type of words you use when you're NOT ok, but you use them because you really don't want to talk about it.
I would think that this is something he tried; you know, trying not to analyze everything because it gets frustrating. Like at the part where he goes:

"I know what you'll say
'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time"

Like he tells people "I'm just going to chill out and not over-think it" and the people who know him are like "Yeah, right, sure John." I guess it's just who he is, with all of his crazy thoughts and whatnot. But then, without them, we wouldn't be enjoying such good music, would we?

(side note: I find it funny that we're analyzing a song about analyzing xD)

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gabbybouch
04-05-2009

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to me, this song is about being so tired of over thinking everything- your job, your relationships, your destiny. It sounds here like he just wants to quit analyzing, because feeling numb is easier than feeling pain and confusion.

i think the song is kind of sad. almost a loss of innocence in a way, to want to stop questioning. but i guess why this song means this particular meaning to me is because i'm finding out how exhausting and stressfull it is to analize every little situation in life. as i eluded to above, should i be with this guy? should i be in this program? if i make this decision is it true to the person i am? does it even matter who i am? is this where i'm supposed to be?

[it sort of reminds me a beetles line: living is easier with eyes closed, no excatly the same idea, but it ties in]

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Now
08-18-2009

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Lol, Today I know exactly what this song means...to me..., and he's certainly not mocking anyone except maybe himself. It's totally a self-discovery and existence song. In order to truly be clear with your emotions you have to be numb. By being numb, you are able to escape the impact that judgement and the opinions of others has on what's true to you.

Simple example: You meet a girl that you immediately connect with. She makes you laugh, smile, feel important, valued and attractive. As a result of this connection you maintain contact with her at first as friends, but in a short period you find her to be one of the most beautiful women you've met. At this point you are still in the friendship stages with her, and decide to bring her out to meet your closest friends. The next day you get in touch with one of your friends, who is perhaps the most trusted and influential of them all, and ask what he thought of her. He says, "She was cool and all, but man definitely not easy on the eyes (and perhaps in most peoples eyes she's not). You could do so much better than that." Validating your friends opinion, as you have always done in the past, you ignore what you knew to be true to yourself before you'd allowed external opinions to enter your mind. At this point, you suppress your own beliefs, values and feelings, and never pursue anything more than a friendship with the girl.

The whole porch thing is in reference to never finding the perfect rhymes for his album 'Heavier Things.' What I take from it is the notion that perfection is impermanent. “A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”- Chuck Palahniuk. Perfect can't last forever, otherwise we wouldn't appreciate it by knowing imperfection.

The only thing I can't figure out yet is "I'm gonna figure out how boring I am and have a good time." Perhaps this is a "perfect" example of his understanding that he may never find the perfect rhymes for his album?

Regardless of everything I've said, everyone should take from this song exactly what it means to them. Otherwise this could be a perfect example of everything we just shared, lol.

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jmiscool
09-04-2009

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so when I listened to the lyrics of this song I started to get kinda upset with John, because he is always so introspective and has something great to say and then all the sudden I hear him sayin how "numb is the new deep" and that he doesnt want to sit around and be boring trying to figure things out. And I was like, come on John are you kidding me, thats what makes your music so great. So when i read responses about it possibly being more sarcastic than anything I was greatly relieved, it makes more sense to me that way and fits with his personality more than a song about actually being numb. Glad I can see this song in a new light =)

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