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Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version)

by Matthew Ryan / Strays Don't Sleep / PINES

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1.
The Wilderness 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 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?
2.
Spark 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 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 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 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
3.
The World Is... 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
4.
Dear Lover 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
5.
Beauty Has A Name Don't think, there's nothing I won't do I'd gather up the stars I'd walk the avenue in the cold rain There's nothing I won't do I've got some things I'd like to say When you walk into the room My troubles seem to fade I'm helpless Defenseless Wonders of all wonders Everything has changed Ever since I met you girl Beauty has a name Beauty has a name Now I'd wait a hundred years or more Just to hold your hand, to open up the door To your world It's better than this world Cause I've seen so many pretty things Vienna in the snow, St. Peters in the spring But nowhere Compared to you Wonders of all wonders Everything has changed Ever since I met you well Beauty has a name Beauty has a name Some will try to cut you down Leave you stranded by the road They say that nothing matters That's just the way it goes But I'm on my knees tonight I just need to get it right You're my lightening rod, you're proof there's god, And even if there's not Wonders of all wonders Everything has changed Ever since I met you girl well Beauty has a name Beauty has a name
6.
The End Of A Ghost Story 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 But we're too young I don't ever wanna die Why do newborn babies cry? Ask an orphan he knows why 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 But 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 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 around 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 an orphan he knows why
7.
City Life 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
8.
Some Streets Lead Nowhere 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
9.
We Are Snowmen 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
10.
Your Museum 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
11.
Protest Song 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

about

Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version)
Also includes the bonus track, Beauty Has A Name.

"I've been touring in support of Dear Lover since the autumn of 2009. All of the shows to date have been solo. It became pretty obvious, pretty quickly that these songs, when pared down to there absolute center, were communicating a different intimacy in contrast to the recorded versions. After some talking, Monica (my partner in The Dear Future Collective) and I concluded that it felt right to make these songs available in their more intimate incarnations as heard by those that have attended the shows so far."
- Matthew Ryan (4/1/10)

credits

released May 7, 2010

Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version)
Recorded And Mixed By David Henry At True Tone Studios
Performed By Matthew Ryan
Cello Accompaniment By David Henry
Mastered By Hans Dekline At Sound Bites Dog
Art/Package Design by J. Hulett Jones
Original Photos Of Matthew Ryan Taken By Scott Simontacchi
All Songs Written By Matthew Ryan Plastic Violin (BMI) 2009
Except Beauty Has A Name Which Was Written By Matthew Ryan © 2009 Plastic Violin (BMI); And
Thad Cockrell © 2009 Little Hoss Music (SESAC) Which Is administered by Razor & Tie Music Publishing d/b/a Tunes of R&T Direct (SESAC).
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Special Thanks To Monica, David, Thad, Hulett, Hans, Al Marks And You, The Listeners.

Dear Lover (The Acoustic Version)

1. The Wilderness
2. Spark
3. The World Is...
4. Dear Lover
5. Beauty Has A Name
6. The End Of A Ghost Story
7. City Life
8. Some Streets Lead Nowhere
9. We Are Snowmen
10. Your Museum
11. Protest Song
12. Dear Lover (Language Edit)

P & C Plastic Violin 2010 Made Available World-Wide Exclusively Via The Dear Future Collective. All Rights Reserved.

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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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