Your Body Is a Wonderland

"Your Body Is a Wonderland"
Single by John Mayer from the album Room for Squares
B-side	"No Such Thing" (Acoustic Version) "Your Body Is a Wonderland" (Acoustic Version) "Not Myself" (Demo Version)
Released	2002
Format	Digital download CD single
Recorded	2001
Genre	Pop Acoustic rock
Length	4:09
Label	Columbia
Writer	John Mayer
Producer	John Alagia
John Mayer singles chronology
"No Such Thing" (2002) "Your Body Is a Wonderland" (2002) "Why Georgia" (2003)
Room for Squares track listing
"My Stupid Mouth" (3) "Your Body Is a Wonderland" (4) "Neon" (5)

"Your Body Is a Wonderland" is the second single released by John Mayer from his first album, 2001's Room for Squares. Its commercial success was greater than Mayer's prior single, "No Such Thing."

Lyrics

The lyrics are sung by a young man to his girlfriend. He tells her about how he will spend the afternoon with her in bed exploring her body, and compares it to a wonderland. The simulataneus popularity and infamy of that lyric lead to Mayer often being called "John 'Your Body Is A Wonderland' Mayer." Within the song, one of the background lyrics is from another song he sung, titled My Stupid Mouth. The lyric sung in both songs goes like this: "I'm never speaking up again. I'll use my head."^[1][2]

Track listing

All songs are written by John Mayer except where noted otherwise.

1. "Your Body Is a Wonderland" - 4:09
2. "No Such Thing" (Acoustic Version) (John Mayer & Clay Cook) – 3:51
3. "Your Body Is a Wonderland" (Acoustic Version) - 4:09
4. "Not Myself" (Demo Version) - 3:36

History

A popular misconception is that this song was inspired by his ex-girlfriend, the actress/singer Jennifer Love Hewitt, but this cannot be true as he wrote the song in 2000, and did not meet Hewitt until 2002. In 2003, "Your Body Is a Wonderland" won Mayer the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In 2006, the song was used in an episode of U.S. version of The Office, entitled "A Benihana Christmas." Characters Michael Scott and Andy Bernard sing the song as a karaoke duet. Mayer agreed to let the show use the song, in exchange for a Dundie^[3], which was for "Tallest Music Dude."

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