Constance

The Least That I Can Do

Written by Ryan Hutchens.  Vocals and Acoustic Guitar performed by Ryan Hutchens.  Electric Guitar performed by Alex McCollum.  Bass Guitar performed by Cameron Powell.  Drums performed by Michael Crawford.

Lyrics:
oh my brother I've sinned there's blood on my hands again I'll take what I can and I'll make a new plan but some things that break won't mend tell my mom I'm okay tell my friends that it’s better this way tell my dad that I worked everyday but not all who work will win and I've been here before and I know what it takes a home built on trust takes a lifetime to make and a second to break oh my lover I've slipped I lost my nerve again I said it’s too late but in truth I'm afraid because all things that start must end in the years since we've met I've done some things that I've come to regret but one thing remains your love keeps me sane and your picture stays next to my bed and I've been here before and I know what you've got back home in the drawer in a place you forgot in the back of the frame

Collection

The Frame

Written by Ryan Hutchens.  Vocals, Keyboard, and Harmonica performed by Ryan Hutchens.  Electric Guitar and Percussion performed by Alex McCollum.  Bass Guitar performed by Cameron Powell.  Drums performed by Michael Crawford.

Lyrics:
do what you have to we'll sell what we have to the kids they're distracted my boys they'll be happy here do what you have to we'll sell what we have to the kids they're distracted my boys they'll be happy here there's food on the table there's weight in the clouds as long as we are able as far as time allows it’s getting loud it’s getting loud

Mt. Pleasant

Written by Ryan Hutchens.  Vocals and Acoustic Guitar performed by Ryan Hutchens.  Electric Guitar performed by Alex McCollum.  Bass Guitar performed by Cameron Powell.  Drums performed by Michael Crawford.

Lyrics:
lay your head on me close your eyes get some sleep and when you wake you will find when you wait you'll be fine it’s like the wind through the trees on a summer night on Lake Jocassee that's when I had a plan that's when I had a plan someone will die today and we'll all keep going anyway and if God were in our head then we could all just forget him and if we did we'd be the same yeah if we did we'd be the same because we all learn that we have names but we all come from the same place that's how I know we'll be the same that's how I know we'll be the same but someone has died today and we'll all keep going anyway

Lake Jocassee

Written by Ryan Hutchens.  Vocals and Acoustic Guitar performed by Ryan Hutchens.  Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, and Drums performed by Alex McCollum.

Lyrics:
slow down you're feeling tiny I know it’s new what we're trying to do here but you'll be fine it’s all in the timing and when we're through you'll still feel like new just a little more you just a little more used just a little more you calm down you're only lonely at night sometimes the feeling gets phony but it's alright we're not in the movies it's life in time we'll feel out our worries we'll tell our own stories we'll tell our own stories we'll tell our own stories been here before I've seen how it goes down you're feeling pretty sure you're feeling it out loud I'm standing by the door I'm counting my mistakes I'm feeling pretty sure it'll never be too late it'll never be too late it'll never be too late it'll never be too late

Storyteller

POOR OLD MAN
Credits: 
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar,  Vocals, Banjo, and Bass Guitar by Ryan Hutchens

Lyrics:
People call, "Shouldn't let it go this long, how are things? Are you holding up?  It's good to hear your voice and know that you're alright, we think about you all the time and keep meaning to get up there.  We're so tied down."

He gets along well enough to feel alright in the morning if not at night.  He gets along with almost everyone he meets until he lets go and gets caught showing off his feelings.  Poor old man.

He takes a walk two hours before dark.  Never seems to get far enough.  He thinks a lot about everything he does and if it's anything at all or just an accident of motion.  Poor old man.  Poor old man.  Poor old man.  Poor old man.

The Last Ten Years

Poor Old Man

THE LANDING
Credits: 
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, and Vocals by Ryan Hutchens
Electric Bass Guitar and Percussion by Kenny McWilliams
Pedal Steel Guitar by Travis Wright

Lyrics:
I’m a walking compromise between what’s real and what feels alright.  I read the letters you wrote, kept that lump in my throat and ache in my chest.  I was playing by your rules another happy fool hoping for the best.  I don’t want to be a statue.  I just want to get my way.  Don’t care to be remembered.  A picture and a date.  Do it all for the moment.  Do it all to fill the day.  I move in tiny circles.  I never lose my place.  

I was a couple years too late.  I think we could of been something, could of done something great.  And I know it’s not wise dealing in “what ifs”.  

I watched a bird get hit and dance between the asphalt and the grass.  I wondered how something that grew so slow could change so fast.  If I’ve learned anything, it’s that nothing in the world could come of that, but all I’ve learned I’ve soon learned how to forget.  Cause I’ve stood on top of castles.  Yeah I’ve slept on top of graves.  Nothing lasts forever.  The worms will have their way.  And I move in tiny circles.  Yeah I never lose my place.  Do it all for the moment.  Do it all to fill the day.

There’s a box beneath my bed that I probably shouldn’t keep.  It’s got pictures I don’t look at.  It’s got letters I don’t read.  I could put it in the ground.  Make a holy place to pray.  I could throw it in the fire.  Pretend to walk away.  We are sentimental losers.  We are comfortable in doubt.  When we come in for the landing.  Everytime we’re coming down.  There’s a box beneath my bed that I probably shouldn’t keep.  It’s got pictures I don’t look at.  It’s got letters I don’t read.

The Landing

FAKE FLOWERS AND THE WEATHER
Credits: 
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar and vocals by Ryan Hutchens
Piano and Synthesized Piano by Kenny McWilliams

Lyrics:
I don’t want to know where you go when you’re not at home.  Don’t hang up the telephone this isn’t over.  Just believe me when I say your love alone will find its way and some days will make you feel young.  Some make you feel older or alone.

I don’t take that road.  The flowers there are getting old.  You left us with a load and the weather.  Remember when we prayed.  Your eyes were just an inch away and you said, “I don’t think it’s real but it makes me feel better and at home.”

I know a place we can go.  Drop your knives.  Drop your guns.  There is a place to call home in the mountains of Georgia.

Fake Flowers And The Weather

FORTUNATE PEACE
Credits: 
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar,  Vocals, Bass Guitar by Ryan Hutchens
Electric Guitar, Percussion by Kenny McWilliams
Cello by Idris Chandler 


Lyrics: 
What's so important about the morning or the moment when you leave?  If your telling me it's worth it, then I can't wait to see the good things we grow and the love that we make out last us.  In seasons grow old to remember our names.  And I want you to know my girl I won't find more than you provide.  It's a fortunate peace you found without me.

So tell me more about your writing and the way your family's strange.  Tell me anything you like girl, in the end I can't stay.  So I want you to know that hardly a day goes passing without thinking of home and simpler life, and I want you to know my girl I won't find more than you provide.  It's a fortunate peace you found without me.

Fortunate Peace

NEW REMEDY
Credits: 
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar, Vocals by Ryan Hutchens
Pedal Steel Guitar by Travis Wright
Electric Bass Guitar by Kenny McWilliams

Lyrics:
Man I can sit on my steps with the world in my hands spending all of my time coming up with new plans to make a living and get some rest.  I wish a warning had come with this ache in my chest, but walking alone beats working to death for a person.  It’d be a shame to carry you with me like a ball and chain while a new remedy lies soft in the shade of a curtain.
Man I can sit on my steps with the world in my hands counting all of the ways my best laid plans come up short.  I’m afraid to walk down the road until I get to the end and I finally learn why the walking began and it’s worthless.  It’d be a shame to carry on playing the same old charade while a new remedy lies soft in the shade of curtain.

New Remedy

EDUCATION
Credits:
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Electric Guitar by Ryan Hutchens
Synthesized piano by Kenny McWilliams

Lyrics:
I won’t be your education much less leave this life for waiting on a love that’s best in memory.  I can’t be the man you thought of or even finish what I started cause you know how I’m bad with memory.  Let me sleep.  Let me sleep.  See I wanted what you wanted now I wake up every morning and I’m free.  Let me sleep.  Let me sleep.  Let me sleep.

Education

THE LAST TEN YEARS
Credits: 
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals by Ryan Hutchens
Cello by Idris Chandler
Piano by Kenny McWilliams

Lyrics:
If you’re trying to find a place to hide, someone that you might recognize.  Remember when we were kids and you kept your love with mine.  If you’re looking for an open door to a room where you could spend the night.  Well all I have is always yours if you keep your love with mine.  If you're struggling with a troubled mind you should know I’ve been there before.  Spent the better part of the last ten years just knocking on your door.  

If the home you’ve built ever locks you out.  If the one you trust ever feeds you doubt.  If that Boston cold makes you feel alone you can keep your love with mine.  Cause I know your mistakes.  You know mine.  Sometimes I don’t speak.  More often I’m blind.  It’s nothing girl that we can’t bear if you keep your love with mine.  If your struggling with a troubled mind you should know I know what you mean.  Spent the better part of the last ten years just grasping at a dream.  If your struggling with a broken heart you should know I’ve been there before.  Spent the better part of the last ten years just knocking on your door.  Spent the better part of the last ten years just knocking on your door.

GREEN MY EYES
Credits: 
Written and Composed by Ryan Hutchens.  Recorded and Produced by Kenny McWilliams at Archer Avenue Studio in Columbia South Carolina.  Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte North Carolina.

Acoustic Guitar,  Banjo, Vocals, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, and Percussion by Ryan Hutchens
Synthesized Piano and Cymbals by Kenny McWilliams

Lyrics:
Ok, I know you showed up first.  I’m always slow to learn.  There’s nothing left to build here with.  There’s nothing left to burn.  The love I gave was killed in you decisions never made.  So pretty mouth and green my eyes there’s nothing left to say.

You said that life has been a mess.  It’s been a crazy year.  You’d like to get things off your chest.  I probably wouldn’t care to hear about the times you cried or where you spent your nights.  Pretty mouth and green my eyes there’s nothing left to try.

You call again to tell me how we’ve been apart so long that jealousy has left your head and found another home.  That all I ever finished were songs and cigarettes.  Pretty mouth and green my eyes I hope you can forget.

Green My Eyes

Ryan Hutchens is a recording musician and touring singer-songwriter based in Denver, Colorado.

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