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Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer make their entrance at an Oscar party in February 2009 in West Hollywood.
John Mayer has a tendency to run his mouth on a number of topics, and his latest single, "Shadow Days," is an extension of that.
According to Us Weekly, the heartfelt tune is actually an homage to his ex of three years, Hollywood golden girl Jennifer Aniston.
"Shadow Days is about Jen," a source told the magazine. "It really took him a long time to get over her. He really loved her a lot.
"He wrote the song as a farewell letter knowing (Jen) would hear it," the source continued. "Ultimately, he's done a lot of self reflection though and he realizes they weren't right for each other."
In the song, Mayer croons about heartbreak and loneliness, two things he has admitted to experiencing after he and Aniston called it quits.
"You find yourself alone ... I found myself in pieces/ On my hotel floor/ Hard times help me see/ I'm a good man with a good heart/ Had a tough time, got a rough start/ And I finally learned to let it go."
Aniston, 43, and Mayer, 34, dated on-and-off for a year in 2008 before finally splitting in 2009, but the singer himself has admitted that the relationship was tough to get over.
"I've never really gotten over it. It was one of the worst times of my life," he told Rolling Stone in a revealing interview in 2010.
Rumor had it that the pair ended their relationship over Mayer's obsessive Twitter tendencies, but Mayer denied that in a 2010 interview with Playboy.
"There was a rumor that I'd been dumped becuause I was tweeting too much," he told the magazine at the time. "That wasn't it, but that was a big difference. The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter.
"I think she's still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, 'These are the new rules.'"
Aniston has since moved on with beau Justin Theroux, whom she began dating in 2011.
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