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johnmayerephemeris:

December 17, 2005

New York City, NY

“Slow Dancing In A Burning Room”, that was a cool day. I had had this piece of music for about a year. It started out in my hotel room, and it started as a song called “Bad Day”, and no, go figure, it was before Daniel Powter. It was the whole, “you had a bad day, nothing went right.” Then it was, “go cry about it why don’’t you”, and I loved that line. I thought singing something like that to somebody and being callous was so cool. I had the “we’’re going down” line and then I said to Chad, this chaos really sounds a lot like slow dancing in a burning room. It was one of those moments in the studio where I’’d get up from the couch and go “let’’s do it.” He wouldn’’t know what, but he’’d go “alright, something’’s going to happen”. I went behind the microphone and said “my dear we’re slow dancing in a burning room” and laid those harmonies in. It was maybe one of the coolest moments of the record. We had a lot of those moments.”

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