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City Life
05:15
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1. City Life
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin 2009
City life
Rain and on the street
I'd crawl back home
If I thought she was asleep
The way we were
That soft & perfect kiss
Summer ends
& it comes down to this
Marianne
We're in the blizzard now
We're the dream
& fate's trying to be the plow
You gotta fight
With all the light
In your skull
We've come too far
To lay down by the side of the road
August one
My head was full of junk
You see in time
A cruel pollution comes
She didn't cry
Until I opened up my mouth
We're headed north
But my god this feels south
My God this feels south
I miss your smile
I miss the way you'd move
Before all this
Before so much to lose
My eyes aglow
& on the fire escape
Why's it get so quiet
When there's so much to say?
I want that feel
Like a plane when it arrives
Where at the gate
Family waits with quiet smiles
And all is pure
With a bright sense of relief
I can trust you love
If you can trust me
If you can trust me
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2. |
Dear Lover
03:26
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2. Dear Lover
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin BMI 2009
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
I could be your superhero
I could be your biggest disappointment
Don't be sad
Don't be sad
Is it really that bad?
Is it really that bad?
Most of us start out just thinking it's easy
When the hardest thing you'll do is remember how to smile girl
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
I'll give it if I can
I'll give it if I can
Ha da da da da Ha da da da
We might be fucked
We might be fucked
Goddammit so what
Goddammit so what
Most of us start out just thinking it's easy
When the hardest thing we'll do is remember how to smile girl
Most of us start out just thinking it's easy
When the hardest thing we do is remember how to smile girl
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
Sincerely me
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
Sincerely me
Dear Lover
Dear, Dear Lover
Sincerely Me
Dear Lover
Dear, Dear Lover
Sincerely Me
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3. Some Streets Lead Nowhere
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin 2008
I can't tell you where I've been now darling
There are hawks inside my head
And every smile and every good thing are picked at 'til they are dead
I love you was all she said
That's all she said
From that old street
To that new house
To those beautiful hills
Inside your blouse
To the rain that kept falling
And those years off the rails
When we smiled like two sailors
With holes in our sails
When I'd turn to a coma
With a black hole in my chest
When a kiss was the cure
& I'd save my breath
When you'd walk to the bedroom
& I'd fall on the couch
If I wasted your beauty
I'll ignite it somehow
Cause a dream can be cruel
When it haunts you like this
With your eyes like a deer
And the words from your lips
What I'm trying to say is
I was afraid that you'd leave
So I slept with my failures
And I started to grieve
I started to grieve
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We Are Snowmen
03:57
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4. We Are Snowmen
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin BMI 2009
Darling take my hand
This ride is getting rough
And there's no talk of trouble ceasing
I want you in my arms
They're sounding the alarms
And no one knows if
We've seen the worst yet
Sometimes I close my eyes
And hum the songs we loved
Your dress was blue and you
Were as bright as Christmas
And down through all the streets
The air was cool and sweet
And all we knew was brief
But seemed eternal
The cathedrals and the banks
The stones we throw at tanks
The endless war of man vs himself
The traffic night and day
The things we try and say
The growing din of human wreckage
It started simple enough
Day broke and we woke up
To the morning news and
The smell of coffee
I loved you with my mind
I gave you all my time
And then things got sublime
We are snowmen
We disappear
Our hearts are nuclear
With hope and fear
Hope and fear
Hope and fear
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5. |
Your Museum
03:26
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5. Your Museum
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin BMI 2009
Will you have me
Inside your museum?
Will you let me bang your drum
Smile when you come
& unlock the door?
There's a world
A world that's not so hard
Where the dark is lit with sparks
Like headlights on a car
She's moving through my trees
The sky is as bright tonight as my eyes
The darkest parts are behind me now and soon the sun will rise, the sun will rise
Maybe once,
In a hundred million years
Has there been one like you my dear
So bright, so pure, so clear
The torch that lights my way
The sky is as bright tonight as my eyes
The darkest parts are behind me now and soon the sun will rise, the sun will rise
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PS
04:59
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6. PS
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin BMI 2009
Come on get your hands off my sister
Come on get your hands off my brother
Come on get your hands off my father
Come on get your hands off my mother
Come on get your hands off my sister
Come on get your hands off my brother
Come on get your hands off my father
Come on get your hands off my lover
The road gets long
And it's gets harder
To get back home
To not feel alone
Darkness you're a cruel cruel weather
Got me worried about our tether
If this is it for worse or better
I swear you'll have to come and get her
No one wants
To disappear
Below the smoke
That hovers here
Come on get your hands off my sister
Come on get your hands off my brother
Come on get your hands off my father
Come on get your hands off my lover
I only want
What gets harder to see
Beyond the junk
And misery
Come on get your hands off my sister
Come on get your hands off my brother
Come on get your hands off my father
Come on get your hands off my mother
Come on get your hands off my sister
Come on get your hands off my brother
Come on get your hands off my father
Come on get your hands off my lover
The truth gets hard
And it can wreck you
But I was born
To protect you
Come on get your hands off my sister
Come on get your hands off my brother
Come on get your hands off my father
Come on get your hands off my lover
I only want
What gets harder to see
Beyond the junk
And misery
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7. |
The Wilderness
05:01
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7. The Wilderness
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin 2009
Our hearts were broken
When we came here
There's really only one thing
That I want to dear
The wilderness
Comes creeping
& carves you a hollow
Are you ready for tomorrow?
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
I want the dream that we never had
I want the dream that we never had
Before the dark and the day go bad
I want the dream that we never had
Where all the fires
& cruel disease
& all that brings us to our knees
Dissolves, despairs, concludes, concedes
The future here now please
I want the dream that we never had
I want the dream that we never had
Before the dark and the day go bad
I want the dream that we never had
The wilderness
Comes creeping
& carves you a hollow
Are you ready for tomorrow?
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
I want the dream that we never had
I want the dream that we never had
Before the dark and the day go bad
I want the dream that we never had
Amazing grace is it too late?
Is it too late?
Is it too late?
Amazing grace is it too late?
Is it too late for me?
To save a wreck like me?
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8. Spark (Featuring DJ Preach)
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin 2009
If you're tired of feeling took now Darling
I say we burn it down
Cause nothing's worth the tears you're crying
Without water you can drown
You shiver and you shake
You take what you can take
Come down now you're on fire
It's cold and it's getting dark
It's getting harder to make a spark
We're lost but we're not liars
(everything I want, everything I have...)
So we'll say hey, hey, hey woo hoo
We'll say hey, hey, hey woo hoo
The lines are getting long now Darling
Time is getting short
The sun is dim
& the moon is rising
Like a pool of dirty water
You shiver and you shake
You take what you can take
Come down now you're on fire
It's cold and it's getting dark
It's getting harder to make a spark
We're lost but we're not liars
(everything I want, everything I have...)
So we'll say hey, hey, hey woo hoo
We'll say hey, hey, hey woo hoo
We never should have come here Darling
It's all mines and booby traps
There's something in the way we're living
That smiles and whispers behind our backs
We'll say hey, hey, hey woo hoo
(everything I want, everything I have...)
So we'll say hey, hey, hey woo hoo
We never
We never
We never should
We never
We never
We never should
Have
We never should
Come here
Come here
We never should
Come here
Come closer darling
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The World Is...
04:25
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9. The World Is...
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin BMI 2009
This is an invisible song
From an invisible man
Lost in the wilderness
Of a static avalanche
I started out with wonder
With air on my teeth
Careful what you wish for
There's something underneath
Because the world
Is held together
With lies and promises
And broken hearts
And brand new days
For you to start
All over again
She's standing in the doorway
She's taking off my shirt
No one could have told me
One day this would hurt
I'm moving through Manhattan
In the backseat of a cab
And all that ever happens
That's all we'll ever have
Cause the world
Is held together
With lies and promises
And broken hearts
And brand new days
For you to start
All over again
Now some will say it's maudlin
And some will say bullshit
But there's no living without living
And living shows you this
That the world
Is held together
With lies and promises
And broken hearts
And brand new days
For you to start
All over again
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10. |
The End Of A Ghost Story
05:40
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10. The End Of A Ghost Story
Written By Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin BMI 2009
I lit a smoke and took a walk
Just as the stars began to spark
I told myself don't we all
Learn about winter, learn to fall
I see lovers in the rain
Stepping on and off of trains
Just waiting there like baggage claims
Hoping someone says their name
Honey when are you coming home?
I don't do so well alone
We lost ourselves inside the snow
Of where you start and where you go
All the graveyards on the rue
And all the shit I put you through
If only half of it was true
I'd reach across, I'd reach right through
We're too young
I don't ever wanna die
Why do newborn babies cry?
Ask an orphan he knows why
They say the world is what you see
And what it was will never be
At least not for the one's like you and me
Who lit a match and still couldn't see
I'm going down where trouble drowns
By the harbor and the sound
Where the bright light of music's found
Back to what first brought me round
Cause we're too young
I don't ever wanna die
Why do newborn babies cry?
Ask an orphan he knows why
Yeah we're too young
I don't ever want you to die
Why do newborn babies cry?
Ask a widow she knows why
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Matthew Ryan / Strays Don't Sleep / PINES Nashville, Tennessee
In addition to his solo work, Ryan is a member of Strays Don't Sleep with longtime friend, Neilson
Hubbard.
In 2021 Ryan decided to offer his solo work as The Pines at Night to clearly enunciate the collaborative nature of his music.
Devotedly independent, Ryan offers moody & honest work that's now rich with a long list of beautiful songs.
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