Waiting on the World... To Tell John Mayer to Shut The Hell Up!

Okay, please read this obligatory rant explanation: I work at an adult contemporary format (AC for those in the biz) radio station. This means that, lucky me, I get to listen to John Mayer sing, "Waiting on the World to Change" about once every three hours. Its easily one of the worst songs I've ever heard, even as far as stupid hippy-dippy songs go.
Now I appreciate that as an artist Mr. Mayer draws from the world around him, and I don't have any problem with his drawing on the war, or even the political conflict over it, as part of his inspirations. But I am a political animal, always have been. I can judged you on your talents as a lyricist, or as musician, but once you interject a political message into your art, than you are being judged on the strength and logic of your political message. Needless to say, Mr. Mayer is not exactly of the James Carville school of Political Pugilism. Anyway, on with the Fisking:

me and all my friends we're all misunderstood
they say we stand for nothing and there's no way we ever could
now we see everything that's going wrong with the world and those who lead it we just feel like we don't have the means to rise above and beat it

(John Mayer is 30 years old. He can run for the US House of Representatives for God's sake. And presumably his misunderstood friends are either fellow musicians, like his buddy Kanye "Passion" West, or fellow graduates of the Berklee College of Music. Let me tell you, having gone to school in Boston myself, that the BCM kids may have been talented at music, but they were absolutely worthless at anything else. Also, notice how in the very first stanza, Mayer introduces the theme of powerlessness. I'll get on that a little more later. Also notice I'm skipping the chorus, which is repeated a gazillion times, because thats what pop music does.)

now if we had the power to bring our neighbors home from war
they would have never missed a Christmas
no more ribbons on their door

(And he introduces the war theme here. "We", meaning apparently he and his misunderstood musician friends, want to bring their neighbors home, presumably from Iraq, although I guess he could mean Afghanistan too here. Not bothering at the moment to doubt how many of John Mayer's neighbors are serving their county in Iraq, but why is it so important they come home from war? So they don't miss a holiday. And to get them to take down those stupid yellow ribbons. Note Mayer doesn't say, "no more ribbons on OUR door" No, Mayer and and his Misunderstood Musician Friends, don't have yellow ribbons on THEIR doors. And they wish their backward and unprogressive neighbors would take theirs down too. Yes, I know the phrase is most likely selected because door rhymes with war. But that's the best he could do? There are alot of words that rhyme with war. More, Four, Sore, Lure, Core, Corps, Whore, Nor, Bore, Oar, I can keep this up almost all day. Nope. Mayer says, "take your damn ribbon down, I'm sick of looking at it.")

and when you trust your television
what you get is what you got
cause when they own the information,
oh they can bend it all they want

(Damn that Right-wing conservative media bias, whipping the people into war fever, and blindly supporting BushCo despite all evidence of his war-mongering tyranny. And actually, if it hadn't been for the preceding context I'd agree with this statement in full.)

that's why we're waiting waiting on the world to change
we keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
it's not that we don't care,
we just know that the fight ain't fair
so we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change

(Ooh, it's not fair... the BushHitler regime controls the media, and the government and there's nothing me and my poor, voiceless 30 year old musician friends can do about it but get nominated for a grammy and pound my moronic anti-war blather into your ear 6 times a day.)

Mayer goes on to whimper about how when his generation decides things, it'll be different. Good luck there buddy, apparently you've never read Mark Steyn, cause the demographics tell us that at this rate future generations ain't gonna be ruling nothing. But never mind that.

Even if you are anti-war, it's a pretty piss poor protest song. "ooh, we're against the war, and all this stuff you old folks are doing... so we're gonna wait till you die, that'll show you you Neo-Con ChimpyMcBushitler Halliburton Blood for oil bastards!"

Stick to "Your body is a wonderland" High School dance music Mayer. Leave the politics to others.

Sorry I subjected you guys to that, but the damn song was starting to drive me mad, and what is a blog for but to get things off your chest.