Biography:
Matthew Ryan (born November 7, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter hailing from Newark, Delaware whose music can be roughly characterized as alternative country. Ryan also collaborated with Neilson Hubbard to form the band Strays Don't Sleep. Ryan's voice has been described as a "hushed rasp, with words catching like vows destined to be broken - one of modern music's most potent whispers."
Perhaps the most underrated singer/songwriter of the past 12 years, Matthew Ryan arrived on the music scene in 1997 with Mayday.
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Other songs:
- 3Rd Of October
- All I Wanted
- All Of That Means Nothing Now
- All The Wild Horses
- American Dirt
- An Anthem For The Broken
- And Its Such A Drag
- Battle Born
- Beautiful Fool
- Boxer
- Boxers
- Certainly Never
- Chrome
- Close Your Eyes
- Comfort
- Dam
- Dear Lover
- Devastation
- Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Gods Not Here Tonight
- Guilty
- Heartache Weather
- Heavens Hill
- Hey Kid
- Hold On Firefly
- I Cant Steal You
- I Hear A Symphony
- I Just Died Like An Aviator
- I Must Love Leaving
- Irrelevant
- It Could Of Been Worse
- Its A Delicate Waltz
- Jane I Still Feel The Same
- Lights Of The Commodore Barry
- Long Blvd
- Maybe Ill Disappear
- Me And My Lover
- Railroaded
- Return To Me
- Run Rabbit Run
- Sadly Love
- Spark
- Still Part Two
- Summer In The South
- Summer Never Ends
- Sunk
- T Decorum Est
- The Dead Girl
- The First Heartbreak
- Then She Threw Me Like A Hand Grenade
- There Was A Day
- They Were Wrong
- This Ones For You Frankie
- Trouble Doll
- Until Kingdom Come
- Watch You Step
- Your Museun
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This is 'Trouble Doll', the 3rd track from Matthew Ryan's “Regret Over The Wires” album
released in 2003.
Standard tuning with capo 1.
Intro: E, F#m, E, F#m
Verse 1:
E
Trouble doll, you look so pretty when you’re sad
F#m
And the laughs that we had have turned to madness
E
Lovers come to call and you’re voice gets soft
F#m
In the painted glass behind your lashes
A
Though angels pray for you
F#m
Only the blues could save you
Verse 2:
E
If only for a second in the shimmering light
F#m
When the night’s collapsed, but it don’t shatter or sting
E
It’s a porcelain song from marionette in a dangerous sway
F#m
As if under God’s own strings
A
Salvation watches over you
F#m
Redemption only borrows you
(B)
A little at a time in this world
Chorus:
F#m A E F#m
Real gone, real gone girl.
Verse 3:
E
Standin’ high above on that bridge in St. Charles
F#m
Tell the truth, love, whose death did you see?
E
All the art on the wall and the quiet down the hall
F#m
Send a sinking feeling to a different story
A
My lonesome prays for you
F#m
In hours when there’s only you
Verse 4:
E
Well the ghost of a drink on the counter by the sink
F#m
Is smeared, warm and full of empty promises
E
It’s a well-worn poem where the words stick together
But the meaning seems numb,
F#m
‘Til the morning washes
A
All down and over you
F#m
Heartache sure owes you
(B)
All the happiness in this world
Chorus:
F#m A E F#m E F#m
Real gone, real gone girl.
Outro:
E (Repeated with F#m)
Sha la la a little light
released in 2003.
Standard tuning with capo 1.
Intro: E, F#m, E, F#m
Verse 1:
E
Trouble doll, you look so pretty when you’re sad
F#m
And the laughs that we had have turned to madness
E
Lovers come to call and you’re voice gets soft
F#m
In the painted glass behind your lashes
A
Though angels pray for you
F#m
Only the blues could save you
Verse 2:
E
If only for a second in the shimmering light
F#m
When the night’s collapsed, but it don’t shatter or sting
E
It’s a porcelain song from marionette in a dangerous sway
F#m
As if under God’s own strings
A
Salvation watches over you
F#m
Redemption only borrows you
(B)
A little at a time in this world
Chorus:
F#m A E F#m
Real gone, real gone girl.
Verse 3:
E
Standin’ high above on that bridge in St. Charles
F#m
Tell the truth, love, whose death did you see?
E
All the art on the wall and the quiet down the hall
F#m
Send a sinking feeling to a different story
A
My lonesome prays for you
F#m
In hours when there’s only you
Verse 4:
E
Well the ghost of a drink on the counter by the sink
F#m
Is smeared, warm and full of empty promises
E
It’s a well-worn poem where the words stick together
But the meaning seems numb,
F#m
‘Til the morning washes
A
All down and over you
F#m
Heartache sure owes you
(B)
All the happiness in this world
Chorus:
F#m A E F#m E F#m
Real gone, real gone girl.
Outro:
E (Repeated with F#m)
Sha la la a little light
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