David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is a Grammy Award-nominated American alt-country Alternative country /rock rock music singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the group to pursue a solo career, releasing Heartbreaker Heartbreaker (Ryan Adams album) in 2000. A longtime resident of New York City, Adams is probably best known for his critically acclaimed 2001... [read more] - Friends
As pretty as a songA song could ever beLike Christmas on a riverWithout a boat or Christmas treeThis afternoon with you was something like a letterThe kind that someone writes but never sendsAnd when you look at me...
- Cherry Lane
Every night I read this novel about youHolding roses in the pouring rainBut the ending's tore up, trying to hail a cabThink no one can read you, but I canWell we move into a house down on Cherry LaneAnd watch the...
- How Do You Keep Love Alive
Lord, I miss that girlOn the day we met the sun was shining downDown on the valleyRiddled with horses runningCrushing them with flowersI would have picked for herOn the day she was bornShe runs through my veins like a...
- Dance All Night
She ain't lonely nowSee her shuffle 'cross the floorYeah, she's happier nowSee her smile and say 'come on'Let's dance all nightLet's dance all nightLet's dance all nightYeah, I think she'll be alrightI ain't lonely...
- Meadowlake Street
There's something about youThat reminds me of all those timesWhen I wasn't sorry, when I wasn't blueThe cherry moon it shone down on usUnder the stars shining down every one for youIf I could count them allI would...
- Rosebud
When I pick up my guitarThis is the song that always comesDon't know what I'm singing 'bout andDon't know what forI think about youAnd I think about RosebudWish there was a song to singTo bring you backBut you can't...
- Now That You're Gone
I ain't afraid of herI've hurt so much it feels just like normal to me nowI'm alone and I'm dancin', with you now, in your old room, in your old houseI'm alone and I'm dancin', with you now, in your old room, but...
- Beautiful Sorta
All I wanna do is get up get up get upIn the morning in the morningAnd not wanna die tomorrow tomorrow tomorrowI feel alright when I think about youWalking through a star field covered in lightWasted like you're...
- If I'm A Stranger
For all the hours here that move to slowThere's all this letting go, that won't passIf all this love is real, how will we know?And if I'm only scared of losing it, how will it last?If I am a stranger now to youI will...
- Magnolia Mountain
I wanna go to Magnolia MountainAnd lay my weary head downDown on the rocksOf the mountain my savior madeSteady my soul and ease my worryHold me when I rattle like a hummingbird hummin'Tie me to the rocks of the...
- Let It Ride
Movin' like the fog on the Cumberland RiverI was leaving on the Delta QueenI wasn't ready to goI'm never ready to goTwenty-seven years of nothin' but failures and promises that I couldn't keepOh lord I wasn't ready to...
- Easy Plateau
Let's take a ride to the easy plateauWhere the cold don't come and the wind don't blowMoonlight flickers on the water belowThe orange grove blossomsIn the orange groveBad nights lead to better daysIt doesn't matter...
- When Will You Come Back Home?
There's something in the way she eases my mindAnd lays me across the bed till I close my eyesStirs me in the morning till I can ever be satisfiedI leave Carolina every night in my dreamsLike the girls that try to love...
- Mockingbirdsing
Mockingbirds singSing me what the Lord was singingOn the day He made the waterThe color of the bluesSing me that songSing me to till the heavens risingOn the day He made the waterThe color of my baby's eyesLove her in...
- Blossom
Without anyone to love youWhat will you blossom into?Without anyone to hold youHow will you grow?And in the Wildwood treesThe wild wind blowsAnd the nighttime crushes the hurricane roseAnd with no one to care for...
- Cold Roses
Mirrors in the room go black and blueOn a Sunday morning in Saturday shoesWe don't choose who we loveWe don't chooseIn a Sunday suit, with the Saturday beatShe don't love who she choseShe don't need what she...
- Sweet Illusions
Let me go I'm only letting you downI got nothing to say to you nowLose the feelings that are weighing me downWhen I'm saneIt's turning morning all the birds singI'm not complicating anythingI'll have another and then...
- Note To Self: Don't Die
I'm as blueI'm as blue as the ocean is true, it's just reflections of the skyI'm as coldI'm as cold as the stories you told but never sick enough to dieNote to self: don't change for anyoneNote to self: don't dieNote...
- Hypnotized
Two pictures laid on an ampI'm broken like strings on guitars againI saw your car parked next to a bridgeI think it was yours, I don't know, I can't tellI saw your picture in a magazineI decided to talk to you, what...
- Wish You Were Here
Cotton candy and a rotten mouthYou know you're so ***ed upYou know I couldn't help but have it for youAnd everybody knows the way I walkAnd knows the way I talkAnd knows the way I feel about youIt's all a bunch of...
- She's Lost Total Control
So much for the days of gloryIt's not like your idols dies and are holy nowYou cross the street and count to tenAnd everyone that mattered went to bedOr maybe they diedWelcome homeMiss So UnknownThey want it all back,...
- Rock N Roll
Everybody's cool playing rock n rollEverybody's cool playing rock n rollI don't feel cool at allI don't feel cool at allSend all of my best out to the bandI don't think I'll make it out to the showThere's this girl I...
- This Is It
Let me sing a song for youThat's never been sung beforeAll the words were meant for youAnd never been said beforeShe kisses when she sleepsShe kisses when she's sleepingLet me sing a song for youA song that's worth...
- The Drugs Not Working
I was shooting int he back of the carWhen the windows smashed on the police carsI was swimming through the streets of New YorkWith my cocaine dagger and throats to cutAnd it was making her cry...But it was making me...
- Anybody Wanna Take Me Home
So, I am in the twilight of my youthNot that I'm going to rememberAnd have you seen the moon tonight,Is is full?Still burning its embersThe people dancing in the corner,they seem happyBut I am sadI am still dancing...
- Luminol
Nobody with no one to callAnd all this timeHot metal as her clothes dissolveEmergency lightsIt's genocideIt's suicideI'm spinning around the room in aweI'm spinning around the roomI'm floating through a room of...
- Do Miss America
So, tell me how you feel without your medicineHold your head feelin' paranoidSweet sixteen for a schizoidSo, tell me how you feelNow you're the only oneHeld your head in the setting sunSweet black smoke with the...
- Burning Photographs
I finally see the lightsDown on the east sideWasted like a memoryIf I had a car I'd driveStraight off the bridge into the river, it would empty mePretty pictures in a magazineEverybody is so make believe, it's trueI...
- Shallow
Girl, don't tell me how you want meTell me how to get throughGirl, don't tell me how you want meTell me how to get through'Cause I gotta knowI gotta knowI gotta knowI gotta knowI gotta knowI gotta know you inside...
- 1974
The sun is shining hard at my feetAnd the city is an animal ready to eatIt's raining like a nose bleed, cigarettes and sweetsAnd I feel it coming onBloody as the day I was bornIt's 1974Just like the day I was born...
- Boys
I'm as lonely as boysI'm as lonely as boysI'm as lonely as monkeys taught to destroyAnything they learn to enjoySo pardon me, angelSo pardon me, angelPardon me, my love, for you is a strangerThat you met some place...
- Enemy Fire
Enemy FireEnemy BlanksEnemy RosesRed Coloured TanksIt´s Too Late BabyBaby, ´t´s Too LateLearn How To Change AndMaybe I Could StayEnemy FireEnemy PlanesEnemy RosesAnd Red Coloured ChainsIt´s Too Late BabyBaby,...
- Wild Flowers
- The Rescue Blues
Everybody Wants You To Be SpecialAnd Everybody Wants You To Be HighThey Throw You Down A Rope When You´re In Trouble, BabyScreamin´, "Save Me"Then They Charge You With The Rescue BluesAnd Everybody Wants To See You...
- La Cienega Just Smiled
"Ah the night...here it comes again"It's on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirtHow'd I end up feeling so badFor such a little girlAnd I hold you close in the back of my mindFeels so good but damn it makes me...
- When The Stars Go Blue
Dancin' where the stars go blueDancin' where the evening fellDancin' in your wooden shoesIn a wedding gownDancin' out on 7th streetDancin' through the undergroundDancin' little marionetteAre you happy now?Where do you...
- Somehow, Someday
I want to tell you something That I shoud've, long ago I wish that you and I had those kids Maybe bought us that home I wish that we were still in your room In your bed and you were holding me 'Cause there ain't no...
- Answering Bell
Did I Slip? I Know I StumbledDid I Trip? ´Cause I know I FellAll´s I Know Is I´ll Wake UpHere In My Clothes TomorrowBut Oh, Girl I Wish I Knew You WellBut Oh, Girl I Wish I Knew You WellBut I´m Just Sayin´...
- New York, New York
Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of JulyI had a fire*** waiting to blowBreakin' like a rocket who was makin' its wayTo the cities of MexicoLived in an apartment out on Avenue AI had a tar-hut on the...
- Harder Now That It's Over
They slapped 'em on you Where that bracelet used to beYou know the one I bought in PhoenixWhere they sell old jewelryI was trying to make you angry but IDidn't feed you to the copsWhen I threw that drink in that guys...
- Fire***
Black Birds Slow And Softly Breaks A Glass Of WineBroken Bluesy Whisper Sing To Me TonightWell, Everybody Wants To Go ForeverI Just Wanna Burn Up Hard And BrightI Just Wanna Be Your Fire***And Maybe Be Your Baby...
- Sylvia Plath
I wish I had a Sylvia Plath Busted tooth and a smile And cigarette ashes in her drink The kind that goes out and then sleeps for a week The kind that goes out on her To give me a reason, for well, I dunno And maybe...
- Wonderwall
Today is gonna be the dayThat they're gonna give it back to youBy now you should've somehowRealized what you gotta doI don't believe that anybodyFeels the way I do about you nowBackbeat the word was on the streetThat...
- Love Is Hell
There's strange weather in the back of the roomAnd she's pretty, Jessy's spinning the tunesEyelashes and some white leather bootsGod what have I been drinking?I could be serious, but I am just kidding aroundI could be...
- Avalanche
I found your photographIn a cardboard box in a magazineI can't remember you, remember us or anythingI taught you how to feel, but you just feel numbThey taught you how you feel, but you just feel numbShe comes apart...
- Political Scientist
He is drinking water from the faucet from the riverFrom the tributary it comes through the rusted pipesOutside the window he sees the waterThats supposed to be clean by the chemicalsPolluted by the candy factory...
- This House Is Not For Sale
Tell them that the house is not for saleWe're still living hereHow come nobody can tell?They're taking all the furnitureMoving our thingsCome on little honey, put your head on my knee...Tell them that the house is not...
- The Shadowlands
God, please bring the rainYeah, and bring it soonLet it flood right through the housesInto Judy's roomWith a father on amphetaminesHer mother hides the pearlsReach out into the darknessAnd find my little girlBecause...
- Afraid Not Scared
Look at this ocean with everyone drowning, idiotsScreamin, and everyone sinking in slowlyWe're surroundedIn the yellow lights of the cityWasted as bodies, in bed with somebodyA touch away with nothing to doWe're...
- World War 24
Porcelain DollYour mother runs and antique shopShe takes some stuffI take a lotWe sleep all daySlow resonseI'm feeling like an after thoughtI guess I'm kinda lost in spaceAn London's okayShe don't even ask what time...
- Oh My Sweet Carolina
Well I went down to Houston and I stopped in San AntoneI passed up the station for the busWas trying to find me something but I wasn't sure just whatI ended up with pockets full of dust. So I went on to Cleveland and...
- Come Pick Me Up
When they call your namewill you walk right up?with a smile on your face?will you cower in fear?in your favourite sweater( )I wish you would (x2)come pick me uptake me out*** me upsteal my...
- Sweet Lil Gal
Fair haired galYou got a sister that?s meanHanging around cigarette machineWhen I?m lonelyShe makes me feel niceWhen I?m lonelyShe makes me feel niceSteals my shirtMakes me hurtIn the field where my plane went downIn...
- Blue Sky Blues
Blue sky when you gonna learn to rain?And let yourself go blue for onceAnd let go of the weight you've been carryingIn this house, no one goes to sleep for days,Its like were working on a mountainsideTrying not to...
- Strawberry Wine
Strawberry WineLast night in the street collapsed on itselfIn fact, it broke right in twoAnd I fell inThe strawberry vinesInto a pool of strawberry wineStrawberry wine and cloudsBurning in the desert, surrounded in...
- Carolina Rain
Carolina RainRose lived on the south side of townUntil her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar billsA notice of eviction on the other handNow she don't live there no more,And everyone thinks he drowned,I pulled...
- Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play That Part
Elizabeth, You Were Born to Play That PartFor you Id do anythingTear myself in twoJust to hear you breatheCalculate the changes that in timeTurn to nothing and then multiplyYourself by pain,And you're not even close...
- The Sadness
The SadnessThe stars they sinkIn the oceans of inkLong black ribbons of carsAnd in the taxiYou ask me how I'm doingBut you already knowBeyond, beyond is not throughIts only a reflection of youAnd something at the...
- Voices
VoicesYou come through the door like a bag of rocksWounded all the timeAnd I'm inside the tomb with the t.v. on muteElijah don't you comeOh god don't you comeI steal out the window like I'm using the doorWhispering...
- Nightbirds
NightbirdsOut under the starsDodging them night cars babyCause when you gotta move, you gotta moveWhatever that it wasYou were thinking of ladyYou're certainly not thinkingOf it now,And nightbirds sing youAnd empty...
- 29
29I was a poor little kid in the lungs of New YorkJust like a motherless son of a bitchLoaded on ephedrine looking for downers and cokeLike a sun that just wouldn't set out on the horizonSinging and dancing to them...
- Starlite Diner
Starlite DinerIt's midnight, at the Starlite DinerYou said meet me at a corner to twelveAnd I'm standing in the cornerWishing you were here in my arms,Fare thee well my old friendsFare thee wellIs it possible to love...
- Hotel Chelsea Nights
How long it's gonna be, babeBefore I get over you, doll?I bet it's gonna be awhile now, kidWhat with you living right up the hallAnd I'm tired of living here in this hotelSnow and the rain falling through the sheetsIn...
- Thank You Louise
- Desire
Two hearts fading, like a flower.And all this waiting, for the power.For some answer, to this fire.Sinking slowly. The wateras higher.DesireWith no secrets. No obsession.This time I'm speeding with no...
- In My Time Of Need
Will you comfort me in my time of needCan you take away the pain of a hurtful deedsCause when we need it most there's no rain at allAnd the dust just settles right there on the feedWill you say to me a little rains...
- Amy
I dont know why I let goI want to be your friendFlowers grow through my window and I love you againOh, I love you ohWhen you laid me down into your beautiful gardenFlowers in the love of my armsIts God shining...
- I See Monsters
I know you cannot hear me now'Cause you're fast asleep, but I love you knowColors inside your head go spinning aroundLike a ferris wheelExploding and falling to the groundOh, people are screaming, people are...
- English Girls Approximately
English girls are pretty when they play guitarCrazy like a day just breaking I ain't sure what forAin't got a mother or a father or a place to fallShe's got a brother in the blues, but he doesn't know the blues at...
- My Blue Manhattan
My blue ManhattanShe's angry like a child, but how sweetFire and rain on the streetIt's you against me most daysIt's me against you, fellAh, the snow's comin' downon the cars in midtownStone cold in sheets with you...
- Please Do Not Let Me Go
If the walls in the room could talkI wonder to myself, would they laugh?It's like some kind of jailBeams of lightFall through the curtains onto the bedI'm all alone now, I can do as I pleaseI don't feel like doing...
- City Rain, City Streets
Oh, the city rainIn floods the city streetsAnd in my city bedOut of my *** headIs it snowing in space?God, I wish I could talk to youIs it snowing in space?And all the city snowFreezes the Chelsea hotelIt stones...
- Nuclear
This is where the summer endsIn a flash of pure destruction,no-one winsGoin' nuclearNuclearViolets in my eyelids goin' redSentimental geekShut up and go to sleep, ohThe calm, the beach and the remainsOf the bathing...
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