Uploaded by JuiceinaBox on Nov 22, 2007
Song from the 2005 album Cold Roses.
(Photo collage)
Lyrics:
As pretty as a song
A song could ever be
Like Christmas on a river
Without a boat or Christmas tree
This afternoon with you was something like a letter
The kind that someone writes but never sends
And when you look at me like that
I know that someday it's gonna end
And when you get old
I bet you miss your friends
As angry as a breeze
Tugging hard upon the sails
I've been moving through these streets forever
From Baltimore to Amsterdam
These things inside me, they repeat like broken records
Spinning pretty somethings behind my eyes
And when I can't look at you
I can paint your picture perfectly in my mind
And when I get old
I'm gonna miss you all the time
That wind up in the trees
Scattering bluebirds all over the place
Shuffling children and piles of leaves
I wish I was the wind, I'd touch your face
This afternoon with you was something like a letter
The kind that someone writes but never sends
And when your good to me
It makes me blue because someday it's gonna end
And when we pass on
I bet you miss your friends
Bet you miss your friends
I bet you miss your friends
Top Comments
All Comments (30)
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I can't decide which i like better, this or the acoustic version from the Sweedish/Stockholm sessions. They're both so amazing.
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The OC
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"Like Christmas on a river. Without a boat or Christmas tree." Such a spiritual thought.
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@wist0301 love that pic, my favorite RA pic of all time. he's so beautiful and vulnerable, like this song. heartbreaking.
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This is one of my favorite R.A songs he has written. The lyrics are beautiful.
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One of my favorite songs now
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"This afternoon with you was something like a letter The kind that someone writes but never sends"
What an amazing lyricist. Ryan touches my heart deeply.
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the best song Ryan has written hands down.
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"If I were the wind I would touch your face."
Someday in my life I hope to find someone to say that line to.
houndogray 3 years ago 7
the pic at 2:33 must've been from the coke and heroine days, very dramatic in nature. this has gotta be one of the best songs he's ever written, i could easily hear one of the greats singing this, like willie nelson or jonny cash back in his day.
wist0301 3 years ago 3