Mayer shares his 2005 Grammy Award with Alicia Keys

Washington (ANI): John Mayer has revealed that till date he feels bad about his 2005 'Song of the Year' Grammy Award - because he believes fellow nominee Alicia Keys was the real winner. The singer/songwriter, who was honoured with Best Male Pop Vocal Performance gong at the 51st Grammy Awards ceremony, held on February 8, 2009, for his hit 'Say', has admitted that he didn''t feel his 'Daughters" track should have won gold four years ago.

"I'm still enough of a music lover to know when people get it right and when people get it wrong. Every once in a while I'll get a Grammy and I'll go, ''Yeah, I really thought that was a special moment that I had on tape,'' but then other times I think other people should win it," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.

"I won Song of The Year for a song called Daughters... and Alicia Keys, who I love so much, was up against me with a song called If I Ain't Got You and she played at the Grammys, and I was like, ''This is the most amazing thing in the world.'' "I won and I didn''t think I should because she had a better song," he added.

The win haunted Mayer for years until he got the chance to work with Keys and give her part of his Grammy trophy. "She came over to my apartment and I said, ''There's something I've gotta give you,'' and I took the Song of The Year Grammy and, with my brute, semi-drunk strength, removed the top half of the Grammy and gave it to her," he said.