That fact that my goat couldn’t finish this masterpiece of a song but made us wait 4 years for a new album where he could finish a song called ‘Why You No Love Me?’ Will haunt me forever unless this song gets an official release at some point in my life.
Sounds so simple but nobody does it like him, I don’t think the haters even listen to how they’re playing themselves… this is just so clean and soulful, it’s not about which notes you play but how you play them, people ignore that too much
From 2011 to today, this song had kept me company. In all sorts of moments of life, this personal and vulnerable performance gave me a warm feeling, never failed to do that.. and here I am, only 12 years later, to thank you chaferbud, oh my you have no idea how great your impact have been on me and my music, indirectly. Cheers from Brazil!
On a sailboat I am slowly floating nowhere Lost the memories of where I am and why Black ocean churning A million stars are burning Planetariums were right about the sky Once upon a day I set off on a journey Wishing on the wind take me far from home Now I'm on the waves And I'm taking on water, hard to see, I won't always be alone There was a time when August sun was high and centered on me But it did behind my back and settled down Used to square up with the land used to size it in my hand But it fell behind the line that meets to sky Once upon a day I set off on a journey Wishing on the wind take me far from home Now I'm on the waves And I'm taking on water, hard to see, I won't always be alone Inside this storm Whipping in the wind, my sail is torn In other words, the ends I made are not my own Hard to see I won't always be alone I'm a sailboat I am slowly floating nowhere Hoping someday I'll wash up on someone else's shore
I believe the line should read 'But it dipped behind my back and settled down' which refers to it setting, as does 'But it fell behind the line that meets to sky.'
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how low I get, hearing John makes me pick up the guitar and move forward, get better, but always stay true to the love of the craft.
I just love discovering these unofficial tracks of him...there's so much raw talent and it shows how good he is as a singer and guitarist...couldn't have been prouder of him
"Hard to see I won't always be alone" - he sings it very similarly to the line "no one wants to be alone at Christmas time" in St Patrick's day. So beautiful
Apenas Danilo disagree. It’s subjective but whereas Elvis is probably a more natural singer, and early Mayer was pretty bad. Mayers voice matured into something much stronger and distinctive
This song is like a second part for the song Walt Grace's Submarine Test January 1967. Except the lyrics say that it's set on a sailboat rather than a submarine.
I think its because of his vocal problems, 2013 was the time john hit rock bottom with his vocals, his range was extremely limited during that time so i think thats why he changed some parts of this song
I remember when a sliver of this song was up on TH-cam with the Hokusai Tsunami image. I'd return to it at the bottom of a depression like a compass. These chord changes and that melody embody a North for me, that another soul is just as wet and miserable at the heart that storm they can tell is going to end. And that revelation comes just as the light breaks the storm in half. And you are left on the perfect ocean under the exploding colors of a forgiving sunset. I like finding this in secret
Can someone please tell me why he never puts these great songs on his albums? This is better then most of what ended up on Battle Studies. We really need to start a petition to get him to produce some of these lost songs.
For so long I’ve tried to find that someone but I just can’t I’ve tried so hard be the best person I can. And now I’ve found this other person and she’s like one of my best female friends but I know I have no chance with her at all she even told me she doesn’t feel like dating anyone.and now I feel exactly how John describes in the song alone on a sail boat just hoping I’ll wash upon some else’s shore. But I’m starting to lose faith maybe I’ll be out on sea forever.
Bro you’re not alone. Never give up. You are a good person who needs one that completes you, not the one you suffer seeing her not being with you. All my love from Spain brother. Keep your head up ❤️
I for one hope this never makes it on an album... I think theres something special about a song only the fans know and love who've heard it live. That being said, this song has been my favorite of his for a long time.
It's been a rough few months. I don't like complaining about issues of mine; I like to think that I'm an empathetic person, and part of that empathy complex leans heavily against putting my issues at the forefront where other people can notice them, even if that includes just telling my friends I'm struggling. It's never one big thing. Not a Big Bang that sets itself off. It's a million little things. For example, I just found out after meeting this wonderful girl and hanging out for many weeks, and I mean wonderful (she sings like an angel, is the quiet reserved type, total nerd) that we don't feel the same way about each other. I REALLY hate venting about romantic stuff just because it's so cliche. But here I am, losing my shit over my favorite underground cry track. I really hope that if theres anybody out there that has this problem that I have--of holding it in out of care for yourself and the others around you--that you'll reach out. Talk to someone. The breaking point is subjective, and it's never worth rolling the dice with it.
I know the feeling that your taking about one moment you feel like you can do anything and then the next you feel like nothing. My problem is that I don’t want to put my problems on other people and I feel like my friends want truly listen i don’t know but I just feel lost and like you after discovering this song it has also become my favorite underground cry track
yep something maybe titled 'The John Mayer Anthology' :) I've already made one myself with unreleased songs, demos, collabs and rare live stuff. It currently has about 54 songs :)
I know right. They didn't make the album cut I guess. Wanted A Break in the Clouds on the album too. Can't wait for him to get better and can perform again. Haven't seen him in almost 2 years. In total JM withdrawls
i want that new album soooooo bad and i want him to have a europe tour where he visits denmark so i won't have to live in the fear of never getting to experience this!!!!!
@oogianaoo i highly doubt it'll be next month. but then again coldplay announced their new album very recently (also coming out next month) so who knows. i'm guessing early 2012 though.
I'm assuming you guys already heard, but in case you haven't, John has a granuloma (small node growth, not too serious) in his throat, the album won't be done until next year. Oh well :-/
That fact that my goat couldn’t finish this masterpiece of a song but made us wait 4 years for a new album where he could finish a song called ‘Why You No Love Me?’ Will haunt me forever unless this song gets an official release at some point in my life.
Totally agree 💯
😂 I agree
😂
Why You No Love Me is a good song
Some of the best songs he has ever written are all these unreleased songs during his Continuum/Battle Studies era. They're perfect...
Sounds so simple but nobody does it like him, I don’t think the haters even listen to how they’re playing themselves… this is just so clean and soulful, it’s not about which notes you play but how you play them, people ignore that too much
If you're watching in 2016, this song was originally written for the Battle Studies record. This version was recorded at Berklee College in 2009.
Who's still coming back to this after 11 years ?
Taking on Water: another great Mayer song that the majority of the human race will not have the privilege of hearing
let us fix that, each according to our own abilities...
@@pepperjanehq fax its going on my ep
I dont understand how one could write such a beautiful song and not release it. even as an EP!
This song is just genius, hope he brings it back for a gig soon
Listening to this 8 years later.
So beautiful.
From 2011 to today, this song had kept me company. In all sorts of moments of life, this personal and vulnerable performance gave me a warm feeling, never failed to do that.. and here I am, only 12 years later, to thank you chaferbud, oh my you have no idea how great your impact have been on me and my music, indirectly. Cheers from Brazil!
On a sailboat
I am slowly floating nowhere
Lost the memories of where I am and why
Black ocean churning
A million stars are burning
Planetariums were right about the sky
Once upon a day I set off on a journey
Wishing on the wind take me far from home
Now I'm on the waves
And I'm taking on water, hard to see, I won't always be alone
There was a time when August sun was high and centered on me
But it did behind my back and settled down
Used to square up with the land used to size it in my hand
But it fell behind the line that meets to sky
Once upon a day I set off on a journey
Wishing on the wind take me far from home
Now I'm on the waves
And I'm taking on water, hard to see, I won't always be alone
Inside this storm
Whipping in the wind, my sail is torn
In other words, the ends I made are not my own
Hard to see I won't always be alone
I'm a sailboat I am slowly floating nowhere
Hoping someday I'll wash up on someone else's shore
I believe the line should read 'But it dipped behind my back and settled down' which refers to it setting, as does 'But it fell behind the line that meets to sky.'
Think it’s ‘all the sun’ too not ‘August’
Think it’s ‘the hands I’m in are not my own’
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 14, 15, 2016... always listening...
year 2013 to 14? you go back 999 years?
apexperfection619 can be! rs
same. different situation same outcome
2017....
2018?
I am super ready for the next John Mayer Record!!!
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how low I get, hearing John makes me pick up the guitar and move forward, get better, but always stay true to the love of the craft.
what a gem! release this John!
I just love discovering these unofficial tracks of him...there's so much raw talent and it shows how good he is as a singer and guitarist...couldn't have been prouder of him
So many good cries to this. Thank you, John.
this song just made my bad day into an okay calm day. john mayer always cheers me up.
"Hard to see I won't always be alone" - he sings it very similarly to the line "no one wants to be alone at Christmas time" in St Patrick's day. So beautiful
Not really, at all lol... but both of these lines are great
... and so many of his other songs lol (in ideation if not in actuation)
He's our Elvis folks. Enjoy this rare talent!
more talent than elvis
The Sham named Elvis. John Mayer is way above Elvis, and he’s original...
@@PeterZeeke not in terms of singing of course. Elvis voices is far better
Apenas Danilo disagree. It’s subjective but whereas Elvis is probably a more natural singer, and early Mayer was pretty bad. Mayers voice matured into something much stronger and distinctive
and doesn’t get half the love
How the hell did this not make the album, it's so beautiful.
This song is like a second part for the song Walt Grace's Submarine Test January 1967. Except the lyrics say that it's set on a sailboat rather than a submarine.
Actually he said that this song became "I will be found (lost at sea)". Guess he changed a little bit between song-writings.
oh really....
this is so much better though
Bruno Choueri which sounds a lot different. How could that be.
I think its because of his vocal problems, 2013 was the time john hit rock bottom with his vocals, his range was extremely limited during that time so i think thats why he changed some parts of this song
An absolute gem.
I remember when a sliver of this song was up on TH-cam with the Hokusai Tsunami image. I'd return to it at the bottom of a depression like a compass. These chord changes and that melody embody a North for me, that another soul is just as wet and miserable at the heart that storm they can tell is going to end. And that revelation comes just as the light breaks the storm in half. And you are left on the perfect ocean under the exploding colors of a forgiving sunset. I like finding this in secret
sorry I'm years late to like this. this will forever be my favorite song he has written.
I agree! This song is wonderful!
I wish John would make an album out of all of these unreleased gems
@chaferbud
without you and Mayer, life would be purposeless.
thank-you.
Absolutely astonishing!!
2021, still here.
2024?
OH MY GOD this is brilliant quality! Thank you so much, you just made my crappy sunday so much better- John always makes my life better :)
Don't change for any one John, if the fans want this song but you don't want to do it. Then don't man.
Love this song
Who's here in 2024. Still an absolutely amazing song
I can totally picture the full band coming in at the start of the second verse. That would kick ass!
record a version!!
still listen to this. its June 2017.
Hanf. June 2018 now. Timeless.
Still Listening to this in June 2018!
2020
still favorite, Oct 2020.
2021
Thanks for uploading this. John is the man!
Can someone please tell me why he never puts these great songs on his albums? This is better then most of what ended up on Battle Studies. We really need to start a petition to get him to produce some of these lost songs.
I actually cried when listening to this song and thinking about her. ;'[
John's masterpiece really touched a 'broken heart'.
as a lonely Mayer fan and songwriter… i always come back to this song.
Listen to his new song drifting man
Best lyrical song he was ever written. Even when it is incomplete.
I once again must thank you for bringing all my favorites to one place, you own chaferbud!
So gorgeous. Really hope to hear him do this in the studio with band and some vox harmonies
This is vintage john mayer right here. Just a man and a guitar.
Mayer’s best song !!!
Going through a broken heart too my friend... John has rich soul.
Okay. This is the version going on my playlist. Thanks for the upload chaferbud.
183rd comment. I’m so happy this song was written...I’m a Pisces so I am Water and I love my other and only he knows. 💗💜🖤
For so long I’ve tried to find that someone but I just can’t I’ve tried so hard be the best person I can. And now I’ve found this other person and she’s like one of my best female friends but I know I have no chance with her at all she even told me she doesn’t feel like dating anyone.and now I feel exactly how John describes in the song alone on a sail boat just hoping I’ll wash upon some else’s shore. But I’m starting to lose faith maybe I’ll be out on sea forever.
Bro you’re not alone. Never give up. You are a good person who needs one that completes you, not the one you suffer seeing her not being with you. All my love from Spain brother. Keep your head up ❤️
Wow, this is amazing! Thanks so much!
His new album will need alot more continuum for me not to be disappointed by it.
You are the dude. Thanks again for your JM uploading prowess!
dude, thanks so much for uploading this
I for one hope this never makes it on an album... I think theres something special about a song only the fans know and love who've heard it live. That being said, this song has been my favorite of his for a long time.
yep he is awesome amazing version
It's been a rough few months. I don't like complaining about issues of mine; I like to think that I'm an empathetic person, and part of that empathy complex leans heavily against putting my issues at the forefront where other people can notice them, even if that includes just telling my friends I'm struggling. It's never one big thing. Not a Big Bang that sets itself off. It's a million little things. For example, I just found out after meeting this wonderful girl and hanging out for many weeks, and I mean wonderful (she sings like an angel, is the quiet reserved type, total nerd) that we don't feel the same way about each other. I REALLY hate venting about romantic stuff just because it's so cliche. But here I am, losing my shit over my favorite underground cry track.
I really hope that if theres anybody out there that has this problem that I have--of holding it in out of care for yourself and the others around you--that you'll reach out. Talk to someone. The breaking point is subjective, and it's never worth rolling the dice with it.
CX-W Skitch I understand you.
I know the feeling that your taking about one moment you feel like you can do anything and then the next you feel like nothing. My problem is that I don’t want to put my problems on other people and I feel like my friends want truly listen i don’t know but I just feel lost and like you after discovering this song it has also become my favorite underground cry track
Beautiful! And I'm just throwing this out there, but JM can come crash upon my shore any day of the week and twice on Sunday's! ;)
haha yeah
Beautiful
listen to this on 11 Sep 2017, fuckin brilliant, great chords, vocal.. people will cry if hear this alone in a silent night
Thanks! Love this version!
August,2018.Still here.
We definitely need a bootleg series from john
Hei, I can't belive you hadn't heard this already! Is on Breklee Clinic! Beauty!
Yes! Finally a good live quality version, thank you @chaferbud haha
getting a big john mayer feel from this
No kidding!
I love this song , thank you @chaferbud ... thanks a lot :'D I'm waiting for Born and Raised ... I know it'll be over-rated :))
How’d he never release this is what I need to know
yep something maybe titled 'The John Mayer Anthology' :) I've already made one myself with unreleased songs, demos, collabs and rare live stuff. It currently has about 54 songs :)
MikeeSings4You will u send it to me
Sendit
I want it too please.....
Omg we need that
Wow yes is there a way to access this? Thanks
Hoping this song maybe shows up in the soundtrack to the Walt Grace film...
So what do we win when we figure out the riddle?
this’ll be on the continuum 20th anniversary, see you in a couple of years, fellow souls
I know right. They didn't make the album cut I guess. Wanted A Break in the Clouds on the album too. Can't wait for him to get better and can perform again. Haven't seen him in almost 2 years. In total JM withdrawls
I love john ballads with an electric Guitar
So good......
cheers mike! you're the don!
This is such a beautiful song.. I dunno about anyone else, but the whole metaphor reminds me slightly of message in a bottle by police ?
Man...
The current keeps circling me back here. Hard to see, I wont always be alone.
i'm here
I think this recording was around 2010....its from his Berkeley clinic, check it out
Would be awesome for someone to do an AI cover of this gem
2019 still floating
i want that new album soooooo bad and i want him to have a europe tour where he visits denmark so i won't have to live in the fear of never getting to experience this!!!!!
jm's manager tweeted that the album isnt even finished yet, so it'll probably be, as chaferbud says, 2012.
ha! If only...
yes! i want him to get better, for him of course, but i need to see him!
Almost certain this song evolved to Lost at Sea
devolved, this song is 1000x better
@oogianaoo i highly doubt it'll be next month. but then again coldplay announced their new album very recently (also coming out next month) so who knows. i'm guessing early 2012 though.
@chaferbud i'm sure you know about his granuloma though. nothing coming out for a while.
Why, oh why John didn't a studio version??? Oh...why?
ugh so bummed that this and everything you'll ever be won't be on born and raised. :(
could you also upload the other songs he did from the berklee clinic?
great song, hoping this is on the next album 'born and raised'
didnt born
Ui Chafer I reckon this was in the Berklee Clinic?
I think what he means is that this song reminds about the songs John made 10 years ago..
@romankok yup. i can't believe i didn't come across this performance earlier
Is this from the berklee clinic?
This is from his berkelee performance
I'm assuming you guys already heard, but in case you haven't, John has a granuloma (small node growth, not too serious) in his throat, the album won't be done until next year. Oh well :-/
perhaps this is I will be found (lost at sea), listed on the tracklist of Paradise Valley? one can hope
Big news from the future! Its not.....
i think this is a sketch for the concept of Walt Grace's Submarine Test.