Last night I had a dream. I had an awesome dream. Children in the park. Playing games in the…

No, wait. That’s a Lionel Richie song.

Last night I had a dream. I had a troubling and frightening dream. I was at a John Mayer house concert. You know, intimate setting, 50 of your closest friends and family. And he was awesome. He took a break to hit the head, grab some water, and I approached him to engage in, presumably, witty repartee.

Instead, I ended up knocking upside his head with his bassist’s bass guitar.

It was an accident. I was mortified. And John couldn’t continue his set. Needless to say, my closest friends and family quickly became distant.

I was chagrinned, and made a b-line for my car, which, in perfect anxiety-dream fashion, I could not find.

I’ll spare you the rest of my dreamscape and segue into my point.

John Mayer’s latest album, Continuum, is good. Not in the way Inside Wants Out was good. Or even the way Room For Squares or Heavier Things were good.

It’s good in the way that Oasis Center is good. The way Hands On Nashville is good. The way Second Harvest is good.

Good in a way where people take the opportunity to make a difference using the tools they’ve been given in hopes of moving others to effect, inspire and desire change.

I won' believe that “Waiting On The World To Change” is a call to non-action. Given Mayer’s creative, near-brilliant wordsmithing and thoughtful ambition, I can only assume it’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

I hope so anyway. At the very least, John is standing on his stage, one of the largest and most influential in the Western world, bringing to market a real message, in the packaging of his first chart-topping single.

If he can make a case that the world needs change, risking worldly ridicule, surely the rest of us can make our own case, on our own stage, in front of our own audience, and work towards directing this ever-changing world down the path towards a more positive and self-sustaining world.

One day our generation, is gonna rule the population, so we keep on waiting...

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