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 'Watch You Step', a song from Matthew Ryan's 1998 album: "May Day".
Standard tuning with capo 1.
Intro: Em, G, D, C (x2)
Verse 1:
Em
Well you sent me running
G
For cover, deep in those dark and
D
lonely hallways of my heart
and there were problems
C
You said there was something wrong with me
Em
And they were deep-seated, they were deep-rooted
G
I must've pushed 'em away, I pushed 'em away
D
So you left with the impression that
If I could just clear my head
C
You'd be back with me one day
Verse 2:
Em G
But now you walk the roads with a rose in your teeth
D
Walking arm in arm with him, it's hard to believe
C
that I'm the furthest thing from your mind
G D
Well if those dark clouds haven't come rolling in yet
Em C
Come on baby you know better than that
G D Em
In life there's a lot of high grass and deep wet sand
C
You just trudge through the best that you can
Link to Chorus - Riff (x3)
Chorus:
G D Em C
To watch your step
G D Em C
Watch your step
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em
Cause you'll throw it away
C
Just like you threw me away
G
Just like you threw me away
D
Just like you threw me away
Interlude: Em, G, D, C (x2)
Verse 3:
G D
Well if those dark clouds haven't come rolling in yet
Em C
Come on baby you know better than that
G D Em
In life there's a lot of high grass and deep wet sand
C
You just trudge through the best that you can
Link to Chorus - Riff (x3)
Chorus:
G D Em C
To watch your step
G D Em C
Watch your step
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em
Cause you'll throw it away
C
Just like you threw me away
G
Just like you threw me away
D
Just like you threw me away
End on Em.
Riff: (Cadd9) (C) (CMaj7)
e|-----0-----0-----0-----0------0------0------------------------|
B|-----3-----3-----3-----3------1------0------------------------|
G|-----0-----0-----0-----0------0------0------------------------|
D|-----2-----2-----2-----2------2------2------------------------|
A|-----3-----3-----3-----3------3------3------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
Standard tuning with capo 1.
Intro: Em, G, D, C (x2)
Verse 1:
Em
Well you sent me running
G
For cover, deep in those dark and
D
lonely hallways of my heart
and there were problems
C
You said there was something wrong with me
Em
And they were deep-seated, they were deep-rooted
G
I must've pushed 'em away, I pushed 'em away
D
So you left with the impression that
If I could just clear my head
C
You'd be back with me one day
Verse 2:
Em G
But now you walk the roads with a rose in your teeth
D
Walking arm in arm with him, it's hard to believe
C
that I'm the furthest thing from your mind
G D
Well if those dark clouds haven't come rolling in yet
Em C
Come on baby you know better than that
G D Em
In life there's a lot of high grass and deep wet sand
C
You just trudge through the best that you can
Link to Chorus - Riff (x3)
Chorus:
G D Em C
To watch your step
G D Em C
Watch your step
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em
Cause you'll throw it away
C
Just like you threw me away
G
Just like you threw me away
D
Just like you threw me away
Interlude: Em, G, D, C (x2)
Verse 3:
G D
Well if those dark clouds haven't come rolling in yet
Em C
Come on baby you know better than that
G D Em
In life there's a lot of high grass and deep wet sand
C
You just trudge through the best that you can
Link to Chorus - Riff (x3)
Chorus:
G D Em C
To watch your step
G D Em C
Watch your step
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em C
Cause you'll throw it away, you'll throw it away
D G
You can take it on the run now babe
Em
Cause you'll throw it away
C
Just like you threw me away
G
Just like you threw me away
D
Just like you threw me away
End on Em.
Riff: (Cadd9) (C) (CMaj7)
e|-----0-----0-----0-----0------0------0------------------------|
B|-----3-----3-----3-----3------1------0------------------------|
G|-----0-----0-----0-----0------0------0------------------------|
D|-----2-----2-----2-----2------2------2------------------------|
A|-----3-----3-----3-----3------3------3------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
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