Hey guys, here's my cover of Hoist That Rag by Tom Waits. This audio was taken from my video on Youtube. 

If you'd like to watch the video you can go here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNV8CiKoS0Y


Hoist That Rag - Tom Waits Cover w/ Youtube Link

This is my cover of the blues standard "Summertime" from the English language opera Porgy and Bess. If you'd like to see the YouTube video of this song you can go here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rem4kPmwNwQ

Summertime - George Gershwin Cover w/ YouTube Link

If you'd to watch the full video you can go here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-jocxwJRrc

Eleanor Rigby - Beatles Cover w/ YouTube Link

This is my rendition of John Legend's "Who Did That To You" featured in the movie Django Unchained. If you'd like to watch the full YouTube video for this song you can go here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfdfUtd08SE

Who Did That To You - John Legend w/ YouTube link

Music and lyrics by Ryan Wayland
Produced by Ryan Wayland and Dan Hetzel

I'm throwing stones in a house of mirrors
My sky is raining with the angel's tears
I cleaned the house, I fooled them twice
Then slipped through the glass floor of paradise

Paid off the bellhop at heavens gate 
Cut the fingers off the hands of fate
I hauled my load like a loaded di
The earth is crooked and so am I

Ooh Temptation 
I feel the heat creeping through the floor
Ooh Temptation 
The devil's knocking at my door 
The devil's knocking at my door

My time is up the future's moving in 
Can't hide the sun from a blind man's skin
Drop me at Hades I can walk from here
My prayers have fallen on cold dead ears

Ooh Temptation 
I feel the heat creeping through the floor
Ooh Temptation 
The devil's knocking at my door 
The devil's knocking at my door

My soul is crying 
I'm in as far as I can bare 
And for my crimes 
I might just die a millionaire
Let the gods look down and see 
The canvas of the world is painted red because of me

Stitch my sins up into the seams 
With broken promises and sleepless dreams
Tell the preacher not to preach a thing 
I'm just a tune that the devil sings

Ooh Temptation 
I feel the heat creeping through the floor
Ooh Temptation 
The devil's knocking at my door 
The devil's knocking at my door

Temptation

Music and lyrics by Ryan Wayland
Produced by Emmett Walker 

She dreams in Black and White 
She's got a photo booth smile 
And a Coney Island ring she wears 
to bring up better days

It's a feverish night 
There's no end in sight 
Say goodbye to the present 
The past can stay

She's a smoke ring in the sky 
A mist above the wave 
Not close enough to kiss 
but always close enough to crave

Salt water in my mind 
Heal the wound of time
All those hours spent 
Someone's got to pay

I'll pull my collar high 
Amidst this rainy sky
And say goodbye to the present 
The past can stay

She's a flicker in the moonlight 
A shadow in the sand
Swimming with the coral reef 
and throwing out her hand

She dreams in Black and White 
She's got a photo booth smile 
And a Coney Island ring she wears 
to bring up better days

It's a feverish night 
There's no end in sight 
Say goodbye to the present 
The past can stay

She Dreams in Black and White

Stranger Passing Through Instrumental

I hear the thunder coming
It's a long way from the rain
Been carousing with the thieves of time
aboard an endless train
You're out there like a holograph 
traced into the clouds
And every time I look at them 
It's like looking through a shroud

It's all a slipshod moment 
We're guilty by design
Just throw on your favorite suit
and walk the burning line
'Cause the clouds keep falling 
till my shoes have lost their shine 
And every time I look at them I know
I'm just a stranger passing through

Close the curtain, 
pull the roses from your sleeve
the show is over 
but no one wants to leave
and the old man in the front row
is curled into his seat
as the night just drifts away 
onto another smokey street

Paint the town Victorian, 
I'll wear an Ulster cape
And come out like a photo 
of the wine before the grape 
but like carving in the wet clay
in time it loses shape
And every time I think of this I know
I'm just a stranger passing through

Your voice in the distance 
abandoned from my ear
A crippling face 
That moves like a mirror
That tells me I will find love
But All I found was you

I'm breathing heavy, 
The ghost of yesterday
Find me one more urban dream 
before I slip away
As the sun sinks like a fugitive
into its ancient bay
And every time I look around I know
I'm just a stranger passing through

Stranger Passing Through

Your voice turns to a whisper when the shadows meet 
As you're stranded in a moment you don't want to repeat 
Take your favorite memories and throw 'em on ice
'Cause leaving her Always comes with a price 

Feed the endless fire burn what you must 
You're running out of options and you kill the one's you trust 
No one questions what you did They never looked twice 
But leaving her always comes with a price 

The fathers, in their temples,
 have made their final speech 
Just another second in your life 
that's barely out of reach

On the road to El Dorado with the thieves of Bogota 
And all of us would pry the gold straight from the devils claw 
Not that there is any shame in rolling the dice 
But leaving her always comes with a price 

Something's lost within the ether 
Something's slipped between the seams 
There's a signal in the distance 
but you don't know what it means 

One more dose of solitude before you're on the streets 
And you're left out in the cold without a single bite to eat 
Because what you love is all you've ever learned to sacrifice 
Leaving her always comes with a price

Leaving Her Always Comes With a Price

Something strange in the weather
They're quoting Shakespeare in the streets
I'm piecing the bones back together
Of what they took our and buried in the wheat
And what's left of the Chicanos 
Is rotting in the ground
Got a long list of angry amigos 
Wanna burn this whole city down

You better run home boy, Tell your mother what you saw 
Yeah you better run home boy, You’re a long, long way from the law

My eyes are fixed on the needle
pressure's on the rise
Gotta be something in the weather
I can taste the venom in the sky
blew all his money in Reno
on a stripper named of Caramel
On his way back to San Bernardino
With the Sinaloa cartel

You better run home boy, Tell your mother what you saw 
Yeah you better run home boy, You’re a long, long way from the law
                                         
Well El Chapo, murdered the witness
drunk on the blood of the saints
Price of a kilo in a shantytown
like spilling a can of red paint
Hawking their diamonds and rubies
Feeding hemlock to the snakes
Snuff out your life in an instant  
Can't run from the earth when it quakes 

You better run home boy, Tell your mother what you saw 
Yeah you better run home boy, You’re a long, long way from the law

Long Way From The Law

I've got bad habits
they're burning up a hole in my chest
My judge and my jury are out on recess 
I'm in the final throes
I walked that Roman mile
Still paying alimony
on my inner child
got to get me just a little more of that stuff
diamonds always look better in the rough
I'm shooting at the sky 
and I'm shooting to kill
I'm the King of the last great thrill
I've got bad habits

I got a feeling 
my holy bed is being made
Trying not to look back
I ain't ever been afraid
But all that's left in my pockets 
are pennies and nickels
My holy ghost is outside 
playing croquet with his sickle
Got to get me just a little more of that stuff
Diamonds always look better in the rough
I'm shooting at the sky 
and I'm shooting to kill
I'm the king of the last great thrill
I've got bad habits

Get me out of the pan
Get me into the flame
I'm addicted to sin
and I'm allergic to shame
I'm in love with the squeeze
I can do what I please
I'm just a one-way ticket 
on a bullet train 
Don't know my face
But you sure know my name

It's a black squall creeping
I knew I had it coming to me
The world is chasing me off
Like a bad case of fleas
Got no time to react
Got no time to decline
Scratching at the ground 
while my foot’s in the vine
Got to get me just a little more of that stuff
Diamonds always look better in the rough
I'm shooting at the sky 
and I'm shooting to kill
I'm the king of the last great thrill
Oh I got bad habits

Bad Habits



   Ryan is originally from Los Angeles, California, a former student of Hollywood’s Musicians Institute in the field of music production, recording  and songwriting. His lyrical style has been influenced by many of the urban street poets and iconoclasts of the early beatnik generation and on up to the 60's and 70's. Summoning up traces of Bukowski, Burroughs, and Waits, Ryan often personifies in his songs characters corrupt, depraved or misunderstood as heard in "The 20th Floor", "Temptation" and even the more satirical "Clean As A Child".  His music has been described as dark, sultry, animated and gritty. Integrating elements of blues, rock, folk, jazz and even surf music, Ryan is always pushing to make sure his listeners are hearing something they haven't heard before.

Credits:

   Among Ryan’s credits are nominations in 7 categories and the title of “Most Creative” writer of the year for 2006 by the Songwriters Showcases of America. He was a featured headliner at the Deland Original Music Festival (the largest original music festival in the Southeastern United States) for 2006 and 2007. 

   Ryan was voted by HotGuitarist.com “Best New Artist of the Year” for 2012. 

   He has composed, produced and engineered music for the Off-Broadway plays, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dorothy in Oz and Method, all of which were featured in New York City's Roy Arias Theatre. 

   For the month of December, 2013 Ryan was featured on NBT Music Radio, which is an online streaming radio station for independent artists. NBT Music ranked Ryan’s debut album The City Loves You, number 38 in the top 102 best albums of 2013. 

   Ryan was also a featured artist in Music Connection Magazine’s “Best New Artist critique” section April 2014. 

Ryan Wayland

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