Speak for Me

Album: Born And Raised (2012)
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  • This song sees Mayer as more than a little down on his current music colleagues as he yearns for someone who can "play a song that I can sing" and "make me feel as I am free." He goes on to turn his nose up at the kind of acts who "celebrate broken things." "You can tell something isn't right, when all your heroes are in black and white," he sings.

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