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Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll

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Album Review

Release date: 03 November 2003

Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll

Adams, Ryan : Rock 'N' Roll

Don't let the title fool you

Don't let the title fool you. Ryan Adams wants you to think that 'Rock 'N' Roll' is a joke LP constructed like a mirror turned with affection and awe on his record collection rather than the heavy duty emotional narcissism he's famous for. And on the face of it, that's just what 'Rock 'N' Roll' delivers - an uproarious set of rock...

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  • Nov 7, 2003

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Ryan Adams - This Is It Lyrics

Let me sing a song for you
That's never been sung before
All the words were meant for you
And never been said before

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I'm as lonely as boys
I'm as lonely as boys
I'm as lonely as monkeys taught to destroy
Anything they learn to enjoy

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So, tell me how you feel
Without your medicine
Hold you head feelin' paranoid
Sweet sixteen for a schizoid

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Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll Lyrics

Everybody's cool playing rock n roll
Everybody's cool playing rock n roll
I don't feel cool, feel cool at all
I don't feel cool, feel cool at all

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Ryan Adams - Not To Self: Don't Die Lyrics

I'm as blue

I'm as blue as the ocean is true, it's just refelctions of the sky

I'm as cold

I'm as cold as the stories you told but never sick enough to die

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Ryan Adams - She's Lost Total Control Lyrics

So much for the days of glory
It's not like your idols died
And are holy now

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Ryan Adams - Burning Photograhs Lyrics

I finally see the light

Down on the east side

Wasted like a memory

If I had a car I'd drive

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Ryan Adams - Luminol Lyrics

Nobody with no one to call, and all this time
Hot metal as her clothes dissolve, emergency lights
It's genocide
It's suicide

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Ryan Adams - So Alive Lyrics

Today I watched the boats
Moving through the harbor
Walking on water, in your arms I'd stay
Forever if I could, forever if I may

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Ryan Adams - Wish You Were Here Lyrics

Cotton candy and a rotten mouth
You know you're so fucked up
You know I couldn't help but have it for you

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The sun is shining hard at my feet
The city is an animal ready to eat
And it's raining like a nose bleed
Cigarettes and sweets

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Girl, don't tell me how you want me
Tell me how to get through
Girl, don't tell me how you want me
Tell me how to get through

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Ryan Adams - The Drugs Not Working Lyrics

I was shooting in the back of the car
When the windows smashed on the police cars
I was swimming through the streets of New York
With my cocaine dagger and throats to cut

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