Lyrics: Something's Missing

More John Mayer - sorry!

Another track from Mayer's album Heavier Things. He certianly doesn't pull any punches in trying to work out the world. (I've posted about the 2004 Song of the Year, Daughters, before.)

The story here seems to be his own: as an artist, he has everything he ever wanted, everything the world says he needs, but something is missing. Something is not right within himself, and he can't work out what it is. The lyrics that really got to me form a kind of outro. He's trying to identify what could be wrong. The last two lines are the clincher.

Friends? check!
Money? check!
Well slept? check!
Opposite sex? check!

Guitar? check!
Microphone check!
Messages waiting on me,
when I come home? check!

How come eveything I think I need always comes with batteries?
Oh! What do you think it means?

Click the post title to see all the lyrics..
I'm not alone, I wish I was.
Cause then I'd know, I was down because
I couldn't find, a friend around
To love me like, they do right now.
They do right now.

I'm dizzy from the shopping mall.
I searched for joy, but I bought it all.
It doesn't help the hunger pains
and a thirst I'd have to drown first to ever satiate

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
something's missing
And I don't know what it is
No I don't konw what it is at all

When autumn comes, it doesnt ask.
It just walks in, where it left you last.
You never know, when it starts
Until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
something's missing
And I don't know what it is
No I don't konw what it is at all

I can't be sure that this state of mind, is not of my own design
I wish there was an over the counter test, for loneliness.
For loneliness like this.

Something's missing
And I don't know how to fix it
Something's missing
And I don't know what it is
No I don't know what it is
Something's different
And i don't know what it is
No I don't know what it is

Friends? check!
Money? check!
Well slept? check!
Opposite sex? check!

Guitar? check!
Microphone check!
Messages waiting on me,
when I come home? check!

How come eveything I think I need always comes with batteries?
Oh! What do you think it means?