"City Love" is the name of a song by the musical artist John Mayer

John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...

. He released it on his studio album, Room for Squares

Room for Squares

Room for Squares is the debut studio album of American musician John Mayer, released September 18, 2001 on Columbia Records in the United States. Originally released independently through Aware Records on June 5, 2001, the album peaked at number 9 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart...

. It is the album's sixth track. Mayer performed the song accommodated with a lengthy improvised intro in 2004 at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival

Crossroads Guitar Festival

The Crossroads Guitar Festival is a music festival and benefit concert first held in 2004 and again in 2007 and 2010. The festivals benefit the Crossroads Centre founded by Eric Clapton, a drug treatment center located in Antigua. The concerts are also intended to be a showcase for a variety of...

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Lyrics

The lyrics of "City Love" chronicle a singer's relationship with a woman named Lydia, who he met in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 ("this apple"). It makes allusions to many of the things associated with the city: Battery Park

Battery Park

Battery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years in order to protect the settlement behind them...

, sounds of sirens, and taxi cabs.

According to the Any Given Thursday

Any Given Thursday

Any Given Thursday is a live CD/DVD by John Mayer, recorded in Birmingham, Alabama at the Oak Mountain Amphitheater on September 12, 2002, during the Room for Squares tour. The album quickly peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200 chart...

DVD extras, Mayer's song "Covered in Rain" is the sequel to this song. This title may be assumed to be derived from a line in the third verse of "City Love" ("... the day she called up and came to me, covered in rain.").

External links

• "City Love" lyrics at Yahoo! Music
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