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In The Dusk Of Everything

by Matthew Ryan

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1.
Lonely Not Homesick (INSTRUMENTAL) Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan & David Ricketts
2.
And So It Goes i can't bear the thought of ever going back my head was full of nails my heart was broke and black i never understood that glimmering you chased i found it useless so i turned and walked away where were you when the sun went down where were you when that sense of loss left town i don't care if you're worried now it's too late the wind blew through the square last night like haunted souls flags were snapping hard and rattling their poles i drove down third street and it felt like i was gone the ghosts of things we said were smoking on the lawn where were you when the sun went down where were you when all that hope left town i don't care if you want me now it's too late it's too late and so it goes watch it go watch it go and you won't know until you know i hold no grudge no more though i did for a couple of years the hate you harbor only welcomes what you fear i wrote this song while the sun fell behind the hill the stars look cold but there's a warm light on the sill where were you when the sun went down where were you when that sense of loss left town i don't care if you want me now it's too late it's too late Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan
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I Hate Everyone it's hard to have half a mind in a stupid world can't we disappear from here girl? i hate everyone i hate everyone i hate everyone but you all their hearts are black and full of useless stuff they turn their backs when things get tough i hate everyone i hate everyone i hate everyone but you the great collapse is coming soon can't we just retire to your room? i hate everyone i hate everyone i hate everyone but you i hate everyone i hate everyone i hate everyone but you Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed By Matthew Ryan (Voice, Finger Drums, Organ) and David Ricketts (Percussion, Snare, Kick and Metal Swing Sound)
4.
And It's Such A Drag who loves you more than me? and who gave you  all that he had? all that he had and who can make you laugh and smile like that? and who could break your heart at the drop of a hat? who paid the rent before you were famous? who warned you that it steals? now you talk about the past like it was just some waiting room and you talk about me like i was just another one of your deals and who wanted you  before all this? and who held the girl when no one gave a shit? who can tell the truth now darlin' and who can tell a lie? who said they could never understand how people became monsters and if that ever happened to you you'd rather lay down and die? who loved you  more than me? and who couldn't care less now that i see now that i see? who can tell the truth now darlin' and who can tell a lie? who said they could never understand how people became monsters and if that ever happened to you you'd rather lay down and die? ah my valentine you're poisoned now seems the heart i knew is gone, a plow and you can walk away like it's such a drag that i should have something to say after all that we knew and had It don't even make you sad Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan (Voice, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar and Harmonica) and David Ricketts (Organ, Synth, Tremolo Guitar, Cello, Bass and Piano)
5.
The Events At Dusk a high and lonesome sound comes in to lay you down you crawl below within the pines are whispering behold the wilderness where men get lost and press their luck in hopelessness come on, get up get dressed   high atop some ferris wheel sat to watch the autumn peel yet again a gloaming sky if there's shadow there is light smokestacks along the coast drop dark like frozen ropes people got something in their throats you don't say, you'll never know blue silver is the sea there is salt inside of me i have felt the world begin over and over again over and over again rubbed a dime with my thumb pined and pried and wished you'd come the dime slipped and then i lunged thought to laugh but it wasn't fun fell floating overground swans dive through broken clouds did the quiet get so loud? i see you there, i see you now  put slow my hand in yours thought quick, not anymore nature always wins the war now what are wars for?   blue silver is the sea we alone made adam and eve i have felt the world begin over and over again over and over again over and over again over and over again Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan
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It Always Rains When You Miss Her it always rains when you miss her and all you want is to kiss her like you did before you slid off the rails it always goes like this it never fails avenues  how they sparkled when you knew she was by your side but the truth isn't something you can shake kid it's something that you did that put a sorrow in her eyes and what was soft is now as sharp as nails it always goes like this it never fails she'll say your name again but it will never sound the same some things we lose are lost but never go away they never go away she lit your smoke smiled and said those things will kill ya and when it started to snow she pulled you to her room and then you thought come on now let's get married well maybe it was crazy but she felt the same as you but what was soft is now as sharp as nails some storms are born within our own sails she'll say your name again but it will never sound the same some things we lose are lost but never go away they never go away Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan
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Amy, I'm Letting Go let's talk about it now amy you've always been hard to read but your love saved me where do you go when the cold wind blows?  i told you a hundred times it's no trouble i'll be fine just don't make me read you're mind there's freedom up ahead but it's a hard curve there's a reverb in our hearts that speaks louder than our words where do you go when the cold wind blows?  i told you a hundred times it's no trouble you'll be fine just don't make me read your mind real  love is letting go it's letting go real  love is letting go it's letting go i'm letting go are you letting go? Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan
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She's A Sparrow i'm leaving here different then when i came things can't be what they were once they've changed but lets go down to the mercy lets play all the songs we loved lets relive all that was beautiful as if beauty was enough i can still hear the laughter over late nights in the flood  of a roar that broke a bright and brilliant heart is it just too late or can't we even start.. again? we settled down time and disappointments took their toll until we both stopped trying and the summer turned to snow  now the sky is full of airplanes no you can't make a wish but you could throw your arms around me like you did before all this i'm sorry that i hurt you i was lost and turning cruel but i swear none of that darkness my love was meant for you she's a sparrow and i'm a street she's a sparrow and i'm a street she's a sparrow and i'm a street and i'll watch her float away from me Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan (Acoustic Guitar and Voice) and David Ricketts (Juno, Cello and Synth)
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Stupid World 04:42
Stupid World we wrote on the sidewalk when no one was watching this way to the ocean and she took her clothes off and waved at the traffic but nobody noticed it was a stupid world ha da da da da da ha da da da da da ha da da da da da our train leaves at midnight there's light in the hallway and bags on the curb now where kids dress like soldiers and bombs fill the windows we'll marry in winter in a stupid world ha da da da da da ha da da da da da ha da da da da da soon the trees will be green again and the sun will be out and the birds will return again from the south some suffer a blindness of wild disappointment despite good intentions i showed her my scars then she showed me her bruises you're someone's salvation in a stupid world ha da da da da da ha da da da da da ha da da da da da Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan (Electric Guitar, Synth and Voice) and David Ricketts (Piano, Bass, Tambourine, Kick, High Verby Steel and Percussion)
10.
Song In Reverse (INSTRUMENTAL) Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan & David Ricketts
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Let's Wave Goodbye let's wave goodbye  to who we were we'll never be that again let's wave goodbye  to who we were we'll never be that again and it's not without sadness and it's not without tears and it's not without thinking about all the years that we were that but not anymore let's wave goodbye to who we were and we'll never be again No we'll never be again We'll never be again Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed by Matthew Ryan (Acoustic, Voice, Backing Vocals, Snare and Hi Synth) and David Ricketts (Electric Guitar, Bass, String Arrangement, Piano and Organs)
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12 The Broken Side Of Time (Bonus Track - From the film Broken Side Of Time) i'm on the broken side of time 15 years out of my skin  out of my mind and there's no explaining why i went where i've been except that some of us are little more than burnt fuel on the wind my first kiss was stolen my first love was drunk i'm on my back on the ceiling where the first pain was sunk and when i say that  i don't mean that i was lifted or free i was more like a dead dolphin at the bottom of the sea i'm on the broken side of time out of my skin, out of my mind i sing hallelujah from the darkest of rooms until the cold light of nothing shivers and blooms now i don't long for forgiveness, for you to even understand in this there's no difference between a fist and a hand it had nothing to do with you and the truth is that it never did i've been inches from the surface since i was kid but i'm holding my breath and i'm quiet and loud been on the broken side of time afraid until now afraid until now Written by Matthew Ryan / Copyright Plastic Violin 2012 Performed, Produced and Recorded by Matthew Ryan *Written specifically for and inspired by the film, Broken Side Of Time which was Written and Directed by Gorman Bechard.

about

In The Dusk Of Everything is a collection of songs that is intended to be experienced as a piece, from beginning to end. It's not really a concept record, but an aural film where each song is a vignette circling a theme and mood. I wanted to make a modern folk record, but I ended up with a folky mood record that owes as much to the American Folk Tradition and punk's honest, vulnerable balladry; as it does to the minimalism of Brian Eno and Arvo Part. It's the earthiest collection of songs and music that I've offered in quite some time.

The majority of this music was recorded directly to 2 inch tape via one performance in the time it took to sing and play. This album was made over months. I started writing it in the early winter of 2011 after moving to a cool little river town just outside of Pittsburgh, PA. I'd lived in my adopted home of Nashville, TN for years, but it was time for a change. It feels good to be back in the state where I was born. In The Dusk Of Everything was recorded and mixed between April and July of 2012. I made this record with the help of the great talents and production wisdom of David Ricketts, the producer of my first album, May Day. The words are warm and loud, and thanks to the mastering of the talented Hans Dekline, the album sonically has a quiet depth and cinema.

This album was financed entirely by money I earned via previous albums and creativity. I believe the risk I take to be creative with my life and my work is clearly my own. But it does make it all the more important that if you love it (and assuming then that it has value to you) that you buy it. I only offer you music that I absolutely believe in. And by purchasing it you contribute directly to my ability to make more music for you, us. And I appreciate that relationship more than you may know.

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released October 30, 2012

Produced by David Ricketts and Matthew Ryan
Recorded at The Rendering Plant in Nashville, TN by Brian Harrison
Additional recording and mixing by Matthew Ryan and David Ricketts at Ryan's home outside of Pittsburgh, PA
Performed by Matthew Ryan and David Ricketts
Mastered by Hans Dekline at Sound Bites Dog
Cover design by J. Hulett Jones
All songs written by Matthew Ryan
Copyright Plastic Violin/BMI 2012
All rights reserved

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