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Sarah's friend she lost her mind
Left him and made it look sexy and all
You fear I won't be far behind
Thinking I'll be the next to leave
I know I might be anxious
But I'm still not crazy
And I don't need another kind of green to know
I'm on the right side
I'm on the right side with you
I used to be the one you saw
Crying alone to sad songs
But then we go and hit the wall
When nothings changed and nothing's wrong
It's not the perfect hand
But I don't hit on nineteen
And I don't need another kind of green to know
I'm on the right side
I'm on the right side with you
Someday you'll drift away from me
Adopt some new philosophy
That doesn't keep the two of us in mind
Move into someone else's place
And stare into some other's eyes
And slowly only come to realize
That you didn't need another kind of green to know
I'm on the right
Mine was the right side
I'm on the right side with you
Lyrics submitted by plainstupidjane
Track duration: 04:40
"Another Kind of Green" as written by John Mayer
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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My girlfriend Sara has a friend who lost her mind
This friend of Sara left her boyfriend and made it look appealing
I fear Sara will follow her lead
And try to end our relationship that I actually want to last
I might be overanalyzing this
But I’m not messed up; my reasoning is legitimate.
I don’t need jealousy to know that were meant to be together.
When you listen to sad songs
You try to place me as the bad guy
But when we’re together [“hit the wall” is probably a sex or drug reference]
You see that that nothing is wrong with our relationship
You’re not 100% right for me
But I’m not going to give you up because you’re not perfect [Poker/21 reference]
I don’t need this weird type of jealousy/comparison with
Other people’s relationship or idealistic situations to know that what we have is worth keeping.
If this is what you really want, go and cut me from your life
Uphold a mentality where we are no longer a couple
Take your stuff; leave my place
Fall in love with someone else
Just to understand [as imperfections arise with your other relationships]
You didn't need to fall to this this weird type of jelousy to know that we’re good together.
I’m good with you.
You’re good with me
I was good with you
[Lesson of the song: You don’t need to say goodbye or “lose” someone or something to
realize it was worth keeping in the long run.]
[REPEATS]
[Conclusion: Suggests Sara let go of John for someone else just to realize
after facing simililar (or debatably worse) problems that her not-so-perfect relationship was worth
keeping—she and John “had it good”]
Additional notes:
1. "Another kind of green" is most likely a symbol of jealousy, as in his rendition of "Bold as Love, he sings about the cassic image of "envy" as being "green."
2. "Green" evokes the image of pot. However, I don't think that saying "green" is marajuana is strongly supported anywhere, except on maybe "hit the wall" which could maybe mean "get high."
Hope this helped!
I know the song refers to a woman, but I think he's kind of singing it about life in general. He's saying "Hey, I don't need to go anywhere (like the other side of the fence where the grass is greener in a metaphorical sense) or change anything to know what I got is good." He likes exactly where he is and he doesn't need anything better, even if there is better out there, because he loves where he is and he's perfectly content.
Just checked, John is involved in a wonderful initiative: reverbrock.org/johnmayer/
Let's turn of our computer more often and go outside!
and the lyrics are wrong up there by the way.
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'''stay where you are babe, cause we're the ones who have it good. believe me. ''
the only song i like by him and its brilliant
i love this line. I love...
" your not the perfect hand, but i dont hit on 19"
this line is referin to black jack (the card game) Johns sayin that his girl isnt a perfect hand (a 21 in black jack) but hes not gonna go look for something else and lose what he has. get it?