Something's Missing is a song that John has expressed in the past that he wished it was a single instead of Daughters. The song first appears to most fans on the Any Given Thursday DVD, and since then been the only song to appear on every live material that John has put out. It is featured on all the As/Is releases as well as on the TRY! John Mayer Trio CD.
What John has to say about it:
"I remember coming off tour feeling really lost, like, 'Where am I, what should I do?' It's like that feeling between hunger and thirst and arousal and desire all at the same time. I get that feeling a lot — I'd say about once a day for maybe half an hour. I think it's just sport at this point. It's total self-absorption to the max. Most people think of self-absorbed as 'I'm thinking about me instead of about you.' But I'm self-absorbed to the point where I'm thinking about me instead of the movie I'm watching. Self-absorbed as in, 'What happens if I flip out and all of a sudden I'm at the movies and I just want to go home?'"
"We were in between tours in 2001, and I came home and everything just escaped me, the song came out of a place of necessity. I remember the song came up so fast, I didn't leave my house till that song was done"