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 'Irrelevant', the 3rd track from Matthew Ryan's 1997 album "May Day".
Standard tuning with capo on the 1st fret.
Chord Key:
E - 022100
E/A - x02100
E/F# - 202100
Intro: E, E/A, E/F# (x2)
Verse 1:
E
There’s only one light on in the house
E/A
And that’s the light up in the hall
E/F#
And it’s shining on the back of my head
E E/A
And I’m concentrating hard on the cigarette
E/F#
To the ashtray from the ashtray back to my lips
Chorus:
E
So I lean up from my easy chair
E/A
I rub my three-day beard
E/F#
And give that thousand yard stare
E E/A E/F#
As I recall all the time and money we spent
E
Before I became irrelevant
Interlude: E/A, E/F#, E, E/A, E/F#
Verse 2:
E
So the straw-dog threw rock-salt
E/A
And the precious girl took a bow and walked
E/F#
As I ran my finger over the screen door
E
Yeah every kiss has reeked of betrayal
E/A
Since my heroine jumped the guardrail
E/F#
And decided who she wanted to be once more
Chorus:
E
Now every night I’m paralyzed
E/A
By the fear of rope burns and morning light
E/F#
And the smell of wet cement
E
Since I became irrelevant
Interlude: E/A, E/F#, E, E/A, E/F#
Verse 3:
E
Now memory is just a flash flood
E/A
A thick and black sticky mud
E/F#
And heartache it’s like a breaking bone
Verse 4:
E
It was always twelve hours on a missionary line
E/A
I think I would've spared some time
E/F#
But I didn't I never went home
Chorus:
E
Now it occurs to me like blinds un-drawn
E/A
Or a bullet from a shotgun
E/F#
That she knew long ago what it meant
E E/A E/F#
To feel irrelevant
Last Verse:
E E/A
Now I’m always smiling crying
And hiding my intent
E
Since I became irrelevant
Outro: E, E/A, E/F# (x3) E
Standard tuning with capo on the 1st fret.
Chord Key:
E - 022100
E/A - x02100
E/F# - 202100
Intro: E, E/A, E/F# (x2)
Verse 1:
E
There’s only one light on in the house
E/A
And that’s the light up in the hall
E/F#
And it’s shining on the back of my head
E E/A
And I’m concentrating hard on the cigarette
E/F#
To the ashtray from the ashtray back to my lips
Chorus:
E
So I lean up from my easy chair
E/A
I rub my three-day beard
E/F#
And give that thousand yard stare
E E/A E/F#
As I recall all the time and money we spent
E
Before I became irrelevant
Interlude: E/A, E/F#, E, E/A, E/F#
Verse 2:
E
So the straw-dog threw rock-salt
E/A
And the precious girl took a bow and walked
E/F#
As I ran my finger over the screen door
E
Yeah every kiss has reeked of betrayal
E/A
Since my heroine jumped the guardrail
E/F#
And decided who she wanted to be once more
Chorus:
E
Now every night I’m paralyzed
E/A
By the fear of rope burns and morning light
E/F#
And the smell of wet cement
E
Since I became irrelevant
Interlude: E/A, E/F#, E, E/A, E/F#
Verse 3:
E
Now memory is just a flash flood
E/A
A thick and black sticky mud
E/F#
And heartache it’s like a breaking bone
Verse 4:
E
It was always twelve hours on a missionary line
E/A
I think I would've spared some time
E/F#
But I didn't I never went home
Chorus:
E
Now it occurs to me like blinds un-drawn
E/A
Or a bullet from a shotgun
E/F#
That she knew long ago what it meant
E E/A E/F#
To feel irrelevant
Last Verse:
E E/A
Now I’m always smiling crying
And hiding my intent
E
Since I became irrelevant
Outro: E, E/A, E/F# (x3) E
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