“I Guess I Just Feel Like…”

An ode to John Mayer’s new song and some thoughts about the emotional elephant in the room.

Shannon Leigh
7 min readDec 6, 2018
Photo by Olya P on Unsplash

“So I sat down and I wrote a song. It’s called ‘I Guess I Just Feel Like,’ and it’s this really honest confrontation with how it feels. ‘I guess I just feel like good things are gone. I guess I just feel like nobody’s honest, nobody’s true, and everyone’s lying just to make it through. I guess I just feel like I’m the same way, too.’” — John Mayer

I could listen to John Mayer talk all day about literally anything and everything. There are certain people equipped with such unique perspectives on life, dissecting the simple to the complex and existential, they’re simply captivating to have around and listen to. John is one of those people.

Described in 2017 by the New York Times as a “master conversationalist prone to verbal solos, noodling in impressionistic bursts about his nature and career, weaving in therapy-speak, potential stand-up bits and a barrage of mixed metaphors as if he’s writing this story himself,” John Mayer is well established as an especially…

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Shannon Leigh
Shannon Leigh

Written by Shannon Leigh

I’m basically a house cat with a penchant for introspection.

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