JOHN MAYER

BATTLE STUDIES
Assassin / Crossroads / War Of My Life / Edge Of Desire / Do You Khow Me
Friends, Lovers Or Nothing / Im On Fire

Heartbreak Warfare / All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye

Half Of My Heart / Who Says / Perfectly Lonely

HEARTBREAK WARFARE
ALL WE EVER DO IS SAY GOODBYE
HALF OF MY HEART
WHO SAYS
PERFECTLY LONELY
ASSASSIN
CROSSROADS
WAR OF MY LIFE
EDGE OF DESIRE
DO YOU KHOW ME
FRIENDS, LOVERS OR NOTHING
IM ON FIRE (Bonus Track)
Produced by John Mayer and Steve Jordan

Steve Jordan: Drums

Pine Palladine: Bass
Jamie Muoberac: Keyboards

HEARTBREAK WARFARE

Lightning strikes / Inside my chest to keep me up at night / Dream of ways / To

make you understand my pain Clouds of sulfur in the air / Bombs are falling
everywhere / Its heartbreak warfare / Once you want it to begin / No one really
ever wins / In heartbreak warfare If you want more love why dont you say so?
/ If you want more love why dont you say so? Drop his name / Push it in and
twist the knife again / Watch my face / As I pretend to feel no pain, pain, pain..
Clouds of sulfur in the air / Bombs are falling everywhere / Its heartbreak
warfare / Once you want it to begin, / No one really ever wins / In heartbreak
warfare. If you want more love why dont you say so? / If you want more love
why dont you say so? / Just say so... How come the only way to know how
high you get me is to see how far I fall? / God only knows how much Id love
you if you let me but I cant break through it all. / Its a heart... heartbreak... I
dont care if we dont sleep at all tonight / Lets just fix this whole thing now /
I swear to God were gonna get it right / If you lay your weapon down . Red
wine and Ambien Youre talking shit again, its heartbreak warfare / Good to
know its all a game / Disappointment has a name, its heartbreak, heartbreak.
/ Its heartbreak warfare / Its heartbreak warfare / Its heartbreak warfare

Steve Jordan: Drums

Robbie Mclntosh: Guitar

ALL WE EVER DO IS SAY GOODBYE

Just when I had you off my head / Your voice comes thrashing wildly through
my quiet bed / You say you wanna try again / But Ive tried everything but giving
in Why you wanna break my heart again / Why am I gonna let you try When
all we ever do is say goodbye / All we ever do is say goodbye / All we ever do is
say goodbye / All we ever do is say goodbye I bought a ticket on a plane / And
by the time it landed you had gone again / I love you more than songs can say /
But i cant keep running after yesterday Why you wanna break my heart again
/ Why am I gonna let you try when All we ever do is say goodbye / All we ever
do is say goodbye / All we ever do is say goodbye We say goodbye / We say
goodbye / We say goodbye All we ever do is say goodbye / Oh, all we ever do is
say goodbye / All we ever do is say goodbye / Oh, all we ever do is say goodbye

Steve Jordan: Drums

Pino Palladino: Bass
Waddy Wachtel: Acoustic Guitar

HALF OF MY HEART

I was born in the arms of imaginary friends / Free to roam, made a home
out of everywhere ive been Then you come crashing in, like the realest
thing / Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring Oh
half of my hearts got a grip on the situation / Half of my heart takes time
/ Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you / That i cant keep loving you
(cant keep loving you) / Oh, with half of my heart I was made to believe
id never love somebody else / I made a plan, stay the man who can only love
himself / Lonely was the song i sang, til the day you came / Showing me another
way and all that my love can bring Oh half of my hearts got a grip
on the situation / Half of my heart takes time / Half of my hearts got a right
mind to tell you That I cant keep loving you / (cant keep loving you) / Oh,
with half of my heart / With half of my heart Your faith is strong / But i
can only fall short for so long / Down the road, later on / You will hate that
i never gave more to you than half of my heart / But i cant stop loving you /
I cant stop loving you / I cant stop loving you / I cant stop loving you / But
i cant stop loving you with half of my Half of my heart / Oh half of my
heart / Half of my hearts got a real good imagination / Half of my hearts got
you / Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you / That half of my heart
wont do / Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding to a bride with a paper ring
/ And half of my heart is the part of a man whos never truly loved anything /
Half of my heart, oh half of my heart / Half of my heart, oh half of my hear

Steve Jordan: Drums

Pino Palladina: Bass
Ian McLagan: Pump Organ, Celeste

WHO SAYS

Who says I cant get stoned? / Turn off the lights and the telephone / Me in my
house alone / Who says I cant get stoned? / Who says I cant be free? / From all
of the things that I used to be / Rewrite my history / Who says I cant be free?
Its been a long night in New York City / Its been a long night in Baton Rouge
/ I dont remember you looking any better / But then again I dont remember
you Who says I cant get stoned? / Call up a girl that I used to know / Fake
love for an hour or so / Who says I cant get stoned / Who says I cant take time?
/ Meet all the girls on the county line / Wait on fate to send a sign / Who says
I cant take time? Its been a long night in New York City / Its been a long
night in Austin too / I dont remember you looking any better / But then again I
dont remember you Who says I cant get stoned / Plan a trip to Japan alone /
Doesnt matter if I even go / Who says I cant get stoned Its been a long night
in New York City / Its been a long time since Twenty-two / I dont remember
you looking any better / But then again I dont remember, dont remember you

Steve Jordan: Drums, Percussion

Pino Palladino: Bass
Ian McLagan: B3, Wurlitzer

PERFECTLY LONELY

Had a little love, but I spread it thin / Falling in her arms and out again / Made
a bad name for my game around town / Tore up my heart, and shut it down
Nothing to do, nowhere to be / A simple little kind of free / Nothing to do, no
one but me / And thats all I need Im perfectly lonely / Im perfectly lonely
/ Im perfectly lonely, yeah / Cause I dont belong to anyone and nobody
belongs to me I see friends around from time to time / When their ladies
let them slip away / And when they ask me how Im doing with mine / This is
always what I say Nothing to do, nowhere to be / A simple little kind of free /
Nothing to do, no one to be / Is it really hard to see why Im perfectly lonely
/ Im perfectly lonely / Im perfectly lonely / Im perfectly lonely, yeah / Cause
I dont belong to anyone and nobody belongs to me And this is not to say /
There never comes a day / Ill take my chances and start again / And when I look
behind / On all my younger times / I have to thank the wrongs / That led me
to a love so strong Im perfectly lonely / Im perfectly lonely / Im perfectly
lonely, yeah / Cause I dont belong to anyone and nobody belongs to me
Thats the way, thats the way, thats the way that I want it / Thats the way, thats
the way, thats the way that I want it / Thats the way, thats the way, thats the
way that I want it / Thats the way, thats the way, thats the way that I want it

Steve Jordan: Drums, Percussion

Pino Palladino: Bass

ASSASSIN

I work in the dead of night / When the roads are quiet, no one is around /
To track my moves / Racing the yellow lights / To find the gate is open, shes
waiting in the room / I just step on through You get in, you get done and
then you get gone / You never leave a trace, or show your face, you get gone /
Should have turned around and left before the sun came up again / But the
sun came up again Into the morning light / To find the day is burning the
curtains and the wine / In a little white room / No Im not alone / Her head is
heavy on me, shes sleeping like a child / What could I do You get in, you get
done and then you get gone / You never leave a trace, or show your face, you get
gone Should have turned around and left before the sun came up again / But
the sun came up again I was a killer, was the best theyd ever seen / Id steal
your heart before you ever heard a thing / Im an assassin and I had a job to
do / Little did I know that girl was an assassin too Suddenly Im in over my
head and I can hardly breathe / Suddenly Im floating over her bed and I feel
everything / Suddenly I know exactly what I did, but I can not move a thing /
And suddenly I know exactly what Ive done / And what its gonna mean to me,
mean to me / Im gone I was a killer, was the best theyd ever seen / Id steal
your heart before you ever heard a thing / Im an assassin and I had a job to
do / Little did I know that girl was an assassin too Shes an assassin / Shes
an assassin / Shes an assassin / Shes an assassin and she had a job to do

Steve Jordan: Drums

CROSSROADS

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
Asked the lord for mercy... said, help me if you please
I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
No one seemed to know me, everybody passed me by
You can run, You can run, tell my friend Willy Brown
You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willy Brown
That Im standing at the crossroads, I believe Im sinking down

Steve Jordan: Drums, Percussion

Ian McLangan: Wurlitzer

WAR OF MY LIFE

Come out Angels / Come out Ghosts / Come out Darkness / Bring everyone you
know / Im not running Im not scared / I am waiting / And well prepared . Im
in the war of my life / At the door of my life / Out of Time and theres no where
to run Ive got a hammer / And a heart of glass / I got to know right now /
Which walls to smash / I got a pocket / Got no pill / If fear hasnt killed me yet,
then nothing will All the suffering and all the pain / Never left a name Im
in the war of my life / At the door of my life / Out of time and theres nowhere
to run Im in the war of my life / At the core of my life / Got no choice but to
fight til its done No more suffering, no more pain / Never again Im in the
war of my life / At the door of my life / Out of time and theres no where to run
/ Im in the war of my life / At the core of my life / Got no choice but to fight
til its done So Fight on / Fight on everyone / Fight on / Got no choice but
to fight til its done / I wont give up / I wont run / I wont stop for anyone

Steve Jordan: Drums

Pino Palladino: Bass
Ian McLagan: B3
Jamie Muhoberac: Keyboards

EDGE OF DESIRE

Young and full of running, tell me where has that taking me? / Just a great
figure eight or a tiny infinity? / 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? Dont
say a word, just come over and lie here with me / Cause Im just about to set
fire to everything i see / I want you so bad Ill go back on the things I believe
/ There I just said it / Im scared youll forget about me So young and full
of running / All the way to the edge of desire / Steady my breathing, silently
screaming / I have to have you now / Wired and Im tired / Think Ill sleep in
my clothes on the floor / Or maybe this mattress will spin on its axis / And find
me on yours Dont say a word, just come over and lie here with me / Cause
Im just about to set fire to everything I see / I want you so bad Ill go back on
the things I believe / There I just said it, Im scared youll forget about me

Steve Jordan: Drums, Percussion

Pino Palladino: Bass
Ian McLagan: Piano

DO YOU KNOW ME

Its just the strangest thing / Ive seen your face somewhere / An early
evening dream / A past-life love affair Do you know me at all?
/ Do you know me at all? In all my revelry / I thought I felt us there / A
feather in my hand / A flower in your hair Do you know me at all? / Do
you know me at all? / Do you know me at all? / Do you know me at all?

Steve Jordan: Drums, Percussion

Pino Palladino: Bass
Ian McLagan: Piano, B3
Bob Reynolds: Sexophone
Bryan Lipps: Trumpet

FRIENDS, LOVERS OR NOTHING

Now that we are over as the loving kind / Well be dreaming ways to keep the
good alive / Only when we want is not a compromise / Id be pouring tears
into your drying eyes Friends, lovers, or nothing / There can only be one /
Friends, lovers, or nothing / Therell never be the in-between, so give it up
You whisper Come on over cause your two drinks in / But in the morning
I will say goodbye again / Think well never fall into the jealous game? / The
streets will flood with blood of those who felt the same Friends, lovers, or
nothing / There can only be one / Friends, lovers, or nothing / Therell never
be the in-between, so give it up Friends, lovers, or nothing / We can really
only ever be one / Friends, lovers, or nothing / Well never be the in-between,
so give it up Anything other than yes is no / Anything other than stay is go /
Anything less than I love you is lying

IM ON FIRE

Hey little girl is your daddy home / Did he go away and leave you all alone / I
got a bad desire / Oh, oh, oh, Im on fire Tell me now pretty baby is he good
to you / Can he do to you the things that I do / I can take you higher / Oh, oh,
oh, Im on fire / Oh oh oh im on fire Its like someone took a knife / Edgy
and dull and cut a six-inch valley / Through the middle of my skull At night
I wake up with the sheets soaking wet / And a freight train running through
the middle of my head / Only you can cool my desire / Oh, oh, oh Im on fire
/ Oh, oh, oh Im on fire Hey little girl is your daddy home / Did he go away
and leave you all alone / I got a bad desire / Oh, oh, oh Im on fire / Tell me
now baby is he good to you / Can he do to you the things that I do / I can
take you higher / Oh, oh, oh Im on fire / Im on fire / Im on fire / Im on fire

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P R O D U C ED B Y J O H N MAY ER A N D S TE V E J O R D A N
E ng i neer ed b y Ch a d Fra nsco v i ak
R eco r d ed a t B a t t l e St ud i es (C al abas as , C A ) , C api t ol S t u di os ( Hol l y wood, C A ) , Av at ar
St ud i o s (New Yo r k, NY ), a nd
T h e V i l l a g e St ud i o s (West Lo s A n ge l e s , C A )
Ca p i t o l St ud i o s A ssi st a nt : Char l i e Paakar i
Av a t a r St ud i o s A ssi st a nt : J u s t i n G e r r i s h
T h e V i l l a g e St ud i o s A ssi st a nt : G hi an Wr i ght
Di g i t a l E d i t i ng : M a rt i n Pr a d l e r
Pr o d uct i o n M a na g er: Ch r i s Fe e l i e G ot t
Gui t a r Tech : R ene M a rt i nez
Vo ca l Co nsul t a nt : R o g er Lo v e
Pr o d uct i o n Co o rd i na t o r : Ken He l i e
H ea r t b r ea k Wa r f a r e, A l l We Ev e r D o I s S ay G oodby e ,
Wh o Say s, A ssa ssi n, a nd Fr i e n ds , L ov e r s O r N ot hi n g
M i x ed b y M i ch a el H . B r a uer
M i x A ssi st a nt : R ya n Gi l l i g a n
M i x ed a t E l ect ri c La d y St ud i o s , N e w Yor k , N Y
H a l f Of M y H er a t , Perf ect l y L on e l y, C r os s r oads , War O f My L i f e , an d E dge O f D e s i r e
M i x ed b y M a nny M a rr o q ui n
M i x A ssi st a nt s: E r i k M a d r i d an d C hr i s t i an Pl at a
M i x ed a t La r r a b ee St ud i o s, N or t h Hol l y wood, C A
Do Yo u Kno w M e
M i x ed b y J o e Ferl a
M i x A ssi st a nt : J ust i n Ger r i sh
M i x ed a t Av a t a r St ud i o s, New Yor k , N Y
M a st ered b y Gr eg Ca l b i a t St e r l i n g S ou n d, N e w Yor k , N Y
M a na g ement : M i ch a el M cDo na l d, Mi c k A r t i s t Man age m e n t
B usi ness M a na g ement : R i t Ve n e r u s , C al Fi n an c i al G r ou p
Leg a l : R ei d H unt er, Serl i ng , Root s , Fe r r ar a , Mc Koy, & Wor ob L L P
A r t Di r ect i o n & Desi g n: J o h n May e r wi t h S MO G D e s i gn . I n c . /Je r i He i de n
P h o t o g r a p h y : A l b ert Wa t so n
I n- St ud i o P h o t o g r a p h : Ga ri As ke w

J O H N M AYER :
B a ttle S t udi es c oul d not have ma d e with ou t th e tireless efforts of Ch a rd Fra n sco v i a k, R ene M a rt i nez, a nd Ch r i s
G o t t . T his al bum w i l l al w ays b a sp ecia l d ocu men t to me b eca u se it is p roof o f w h a t ca n b e a cco mp l i sh ed b y a
s m a ll, t ight- k ni t group of peopl e sh a rin g th e sa me p a ssion in crea tin g a reco rd . I ca nno t t h a nk y o u eno ug h .
T ha n k y o u Steve Jordan for your g u id a n ce, yo u r p a tien ce a n d you r a ma zin g mu si ca l i t y.
I a ls o have the pri vi l ege of bei ng a b le to say th a t I ve b een th a n kin g th e sa me t ea m o f p eo p l e t h a t I h av e b een
s in c e m y fi rst al bum : Mi chael McDo n a ld , Ken H elie, Rit Ven eru s, Reid H u ter a nd Sco t t Cl ay t o n. I t s o ne t h i ng t o
w o r k w ith the best i n the busi ness, b u t to g row with (a n d b eca u se o f) yo u th ro ug h t h e y ea r s i s a r a re a nd
b e a u tif u l thi ng. Thank you al l .
T ha n k y o u : T he Mi ck Managem ent tea m, Missy Co g g iola , Steve Ba rn ett , Rob St r i ng er, So ny M usi c, Ken Sunsh i ne,
T iffa n y Shi pp, R oger Love, Katheen Ca rey.
To m y p a rents, thank you for the b est DNA a b oy cou ld ever wish fo r. To my b ro t h ers.
Ca r l a n d Ben. T hank you for you love a n d su p p o rt .
S T E V E J OR D A N T HA N K S:
M e e g a n Voss, Sc ooter Wei ntraub a n d W M g mt . , Pa u l Zu kowsky a n d ML M g mt . L o r en Ch o d o sh P . C. , A rt i e Smi t h ,
A lb e r t M ol i naro, Yam aha D rum s, Pa iste Cymb a ls, Vic Firth Sticks, Bra d y Sn a r e Drums, A mes Sna r e Drums, A l l
Vin ta g e Drum s, JM For hi s i ncred ib le ta len t a n d frien d sh ip , Pa tti a n d Bru ce.
T H A N K YOU:
G r e g L in n, and everyone at C ol umb ia Reco rd s a n d So n y M u sic a rou n d th e wo rld , J ay Ka uf ma nn, Pa t Sch nei d er,
J im m y, Ch ri s and everyone at Ma tes, Mike Eld red a n d Ju stin No rvell a t Fen d er Gui t a r s, Di ck B o a k a nd Ch ri s
T ho m a s a t Marti n G ui tars, Scott y Cro we, Rob L ig h t , Pa u l Fro u la a n d Beyer Dyna mi c, I a n J o nes a nd A l a n
Ve n is c o f sk y at tel efunken, Jeff Sh eeh a n , Dave Rou ze, Ma g g ie Slavo n ic, David Ll a ug er - M ei sel ma n, J enny Fo nseca .
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