John Mayer’s “Waiting for the World to Change.” I cannot remember ever hearing a more frustrating and pathetic set of lyrics. Some excerpts (it’s not the whole song . . . hopefully this is cut up enough to satisty TPTB):
So, basically, all them grownups are screwing things up, but the young people, when they finally get a chance to do something, will change it. They just can’t yet. Because of all the old people.
John Mayer is 29 freakin’ years old! The only reason why someone at that age can’t make a difference is if he chooses not to. What does he think, when he turns 50 or 60, someone’ll knock on his door and say, “hey, dude, here’s the power. Do with it what you will!”?
Not only does he display an alarming degree of apathy and passiveness regarding changing his own situation, but how the heck does a guy who’s almost 30 justify complaining about how his generation lacks power? Seriously. Maybe 18 year olds have some shred of justification for feeling that way, but Mr. Mayer is pretty unbelievable.
It’s us vs. them, the Young vs. the Old. :rolleyes: Does he seriously believe that the problem (as he views it) is because of age? Because of the year people were born? That somehow all those children of the 50s and 60s, every one of them, grew up believing in ideas oposite to his? And that all of the young kids (30 year olds) in his generation are going to set things right, as soon as they get the power to vote, or . . . get older, or something?
Please. I’m sorry Mr. Mayer, but there are 20-somethings who vote republican as well, you know, and not every 50 year old is a conservative Bush-supporter.
(This is almost pit-worthy, but I can’t muster up the appropriate language to do it justice there, and since it’s about a song… here we are).