No such thing as the real world....

You must have experienced this before: you hear a song and then for days on end you can't help playing it over and over again, in your head. Often, such a phenomenon can be frustratingly annoying. Unless, of course, the song means something more than just lyrics and melody.

John Mayer's song, "No such thing" is a feature of this amazingly talented singer's 2009 release, Battle Studies. This song has haunted me bad! And after uncontrollably humming the tune for what felt like an eternity, I began to question just what it was about the song that gripped me so.

Conclusively, it can only be this: that the lyrics and the energy with which John Mayer executes this masterpiece on his guitar, embodies the putsch mentality I have about the made-up structures of our collective socio-cultural systems. Let me explain: society dictates (God! What I would give for a stronger word) rules, norms and regulations, which, like sheep to the slaughter, we follow blindly. Mayer's song, for me, is a clarion-call-type-reminder warning of the lines (read: confined borders) within which society expects us to stay. It is no longer required to be proved that societal structures and the religions of this world are for the singular purpose of controlling the thoughts of man; keeping them marching to a beat of a new world order (if you will). And Mayer, perfectly puts it in the lyrics: "no such thing as the real world, just a lie we have to rise above."

In today's society we are being brainwashed to follow more and question less; to accept half-truths, and not doubt the motive behind the preachers; to acknowledge so-called facts, and pretend they must be empirical.

Go figure, people!

By the way, if you haven't heard John Mayer perform, you must see him. He is truly an amazingly talented artist.