Gas Station
John Mayer

Welcome to the real world,

She said to me, condescendingly.

Take a seat, take your life ...

Plot it out in black and white

Well, I never lived the dreams of the prom kings

And the drama queens.

I'd like to think the best of me

Is still hiding up my sleeve.


They love to tell you stay inside the lines,

But something's better on the other side


I wanna run through the halls of my high school,

I wanna scream at the top of my lungs.

I just found out there's no such thing as the real world

Just a lie you've got to rise above.


So the good boys and girls take the so-called right track,

Faded white hats grabbing credits and maybe transfers.

They listen to Phish but they can't find the answers.

And all of our parents, they're getting older --

I wonder if they've wished for anything better,

While in their memories, tiny tragedies.


They love to tell you stay inside the lines,

But something's better on the other side


I wanna run through the halls of my high school,

I wanna scream at the top of my lungs.

I just found out there's no such thing as the real world

Just a lie you've got to rise above.


I am invincible

You are invincible

We are invincible

As long as we're alive

We're alive...alive


See this shirt I'm wearin'?

Used to wear it all the time.

Workin' at a gas station,

Dreamin' about the sensation, of playin' for you, playin' for me.

Yeah, I gave the wrong change all the time --

Always ate the ho-ho's without payin a dime.

What they don't tell you is, you'll get a spare tire in time.

But I digress.

See I'm wearing that same shirt I wore back then.

And now I'm on stage playing for all yall.

What does that say to you?


Maybe one day I'll go back.

Maybe one day

It'll be some special promotional thing

When you fill up with at least eight gallons.

You get a special John Mayer CD sampler,

With a version of this song on it.


Don't apply theory to things

That inherently don't need theory at all.

Don't...


I wanna run through the halls of my high school

I wanna scream at the top of my lungs

I just found out there's no such thing as the real world

just a lie you've got to rise above


I just can't wait till my ten year reunion

I'm gonna bust down the double doors

and when I stand on these tables before you

you will know what all this time was for


ha-ha Thank you very much


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  1983   3X5   3x5 [Live from the X Lounge]   83   83 Medley   A Break In The Clouds   A Face to Call Home   A Place To Call Home   Age Of Worry   Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love   Ain't Gonna Give Up On Love   All We Ever Do   All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye   Another Kind Of Green   Area Codes (cover / Ludacris)   Assassin   Back To You   Badge And Gun   Bare Ballin   Beat It (Michael Jackson cover)   Beat It [Studio Version]   Belief   Belief [DVD]   Belief [Live][*]   Bigger Than My Body   Bigger Than MY Body (Album Version)   Bigger Than My Body [DVD]   Bliss ( With Alice Peacock)   Bold As Love   Bold as Love (Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)   Born And Raised   Born and Raised (Reprise)   Break Away   Breakaway   By Nine   Call Me The Breeze   Can't Take That Plane   Chocolate Rain   City Love   City Love (Acoustic)   City Love (RFS)   City Love [DVD]   Clarity   Clarity [DVD]   Closer To You   Come Back To Bed   Come When I Call   Come When I Call [Trio Set]   Comfortable   Covered In Rain   Crossroads   Crossroads (Robert Johnson cover)   Daughters   Daughters [Acoustic Set]   Daughters [DVD]   Dear Marie   Distance   Do You Know Me   Dreaming With A Broken Heart   Dreaming with a Broken Heart [Live][*]   Edge Of Desire   Every Little Thing She Does   Everyday I Have The Blues   Everyday I Have The Blues [Live]   Everyday I Have the Blues [Trio Set]   Everything Is Not Broken   Fine With Me (with Dave Matthews Band)   Fool to Love You   Forever (cover / Ben Harper)   Free Fallin   Free Fallin' [Live]   Free Fallin'   Friends, Lovers Or Nothing   George's Blues   George's Blues   Go Anywhere   Good Love Is On The Way   Good Love Is on the Way [Trio Set]   Goodbye (Tribute To NYC)   Gravity   Gravity [Band Set]   Gravity [Live][*]   Gravity; Gravity\\ Dreams To Remember   Great Indoors   Half Of My Heart   Half of My Heart (feat. Taylor Swift)   Heart Of Life   Heartbreak Warfare   Heartbreak Warfare [VH1 Storytellers]   Hearts So Heavy   Home Life   Home Life [Acoustic]   Home Life [DVD]   Homelife   How Much It Hurts   Hummingbird   I Don't Need No Doctor   I Don't Need No Doctor (Live)   I Don't Trust Myself   I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)   I Don't Need No Doctor   I Don't Trust Myself   I Dont Need No Doctor   I Want You Back (Intro To Comfortable)   I Will Be Found   I Will Be Found (Lost at Sea)   I'm Gonna Find Another You   I'm On Fire   I've Got A Woman   If I Ever Get Around To Living   In Repair   In Your Atmosphere   In Your Atmosphere [Live]   In Your Atmosphere aka LA Song   Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)   Jingle Bell Rock   John Mayer - 3x5   John Mayer - 83   John Mayer - Back To You   John Mayer - City Love   John Mayer - Daughters   John Mayer - Great Indoors   John Mayer - My Stupid Mouth   John Mayer - Neon   John Mayer - St. Patricks Day   John Mayer - Why Georgia (Album Version)   John Mayer Age Of Worry is performed at The Villag...   John Mayer Call Me The Breeze is track #5 from the...   John Mayer Dear Marie is track #2 from the album "...   John Mayer Heartbreak Warfare The first track on J...   John Mayer Waiting On The Day is track #3 from the...   Kid A   Lenny   Lenny/Man On The Side   Lenny\/Man on the Side   Lesson Learned   Lifelines   Little Puppy   Lonely Town   Love Is A Verb   Love On The Weekend   Love Song For No One   Love Soon   Man On The Side   Man On The Side (Acoustic)   Message In A Bottle   Midnight   Miss Jackson   My Stupid Mouth   Neon   Neon (12:47 Am)   Never Tear Us Apart   New Deep   New Deep [DVD]   No Brains   No Such Thing   No Such Thing (Extended Live Version)   No Such Thing [Album Version] [Version]   No Such Thing [E]   Not Myself   Old Love   On The Way Home   Only Hear   Only Heart   Only Heart [DVD]   Out Of My Mind   Out of My Mind [Trio Set]   Outside In The Underground   Over And Over   Paper Doll   Paper Doll (Single)   Patience   Patience (cover / Guns 'N' Roses)   Patience (Gun's And Roses)   Patience (Gun's And Roses)   Patience (Live)   Perfectly Lonely   Perfectly Lonley   Portable (Intro To Why Georgia)   Queen Of California   Quiet   Route 66   Same Time Last Year   Say   Say What You Need To Say   Serenade   Shadow Days   Simmering Medley   Slow Dancing In A Burning Room   Slow Dancing in a Burning Room [Band Set]   Something Like Olivia   Something's Missing   Something's Missing   Somethings's Missing   Speak For Me   Split Screen Sadness   St. Patrick's Day   St. Patrick's Day   St. Patricks Day   Standard Lines (with Dashboard Confessional)   Stop This Train   Stop This Train [Acoustic Set]   Sucker   Taking On Water   Tea In The Sahara (with Glen Phillips)   Tell Me What To Say   The Age of Worry   The Heart Of Life   The Heart of Life [Band Set]   The Hurt   The Other Side   The Wind Cries Mary   This Will All Make Perfect Sense Someday   Tracing   Trust Myself   Try   Untitled Song (1999)   Untitled Song Demo   Victoria   Vultures   Vultures [Trio Set]   Wait Til Tomorrow   Wait Until Tomorrow   Waiting On The Day   Waiting On The World To Change   Waiting on the World to Change [Album Version]   Waiting on the World to Change [Band Set]   Waiting on the World to Change [VH1 Storytellers V...   Walk On The Ocean   Walt Grace Submarine Test, January 1967   Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967   War Of My Life   Wheel   Wheel [DVD]   Wherever I Go   Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey   Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey   Whisky, Whisky, Whisky   Who Did You Think I Was   Who Did You Think I Was [Trio Set]   Who Did You Think I Was?   Who Says   Who Says [VH1 Storytellers]   Who You Love   Whole Again   Why Did You Mess With Forever   Why Did You Mess With Forever?   Why Geogia   Why Georgia   Why Georgia [Album Version]   Why Georgia [Band Set]   Wildfire   Wildfire Interlude   Won't Go My Way   Won't Go My Way   XO   XO (Cover From Beyonce)   You're No One 'Til Someone Lets You Down   You're No One 'Til Someone Lets You Down   You’re No One ’til Someone Lets You Do...   Your Body Is A Wonderland   Your Body Is a Wonderland [Album Version] [Version...   Your Body Is a Wonderland [DVD]

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