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Ryan Adams — Let it Ride
Album: Cold Roses
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Released: 2005
Length: 3:19
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Movin' like the fog on the Cumberland River
I was leaving on the Delta Queen
I wasn't ready to go
I'm never ready to go
Twenty-seven years of nothin' but failures and promises that I couldn't keep
Oh Lord, I wasn't ready to go
I'm never ready to go

Let it ride
Let it ride easy down the road
Let it ride
Let it take away all of the darkness
Let it ride
Let it rock me in the arms of strangers, angels until it brings me home
Let it ride
Let it roll
Let it go

Loaded like a sailor stumbling off the ferry boat
I was at the bar 'til 3:00
Oh Lord, and I wasn't ready to go
I'm never ready to go
Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina where they're gonna bury me
And I ain't ready to go
I'm never ready to go

Let it ride
Let it ride easy down the road
Let it ride
Let it take away all of this darkness
Let it ride
Let it rock me in the arms of strangers, angels until it brings me home
Let it ride
Let it roll
Let it go

I wanna see you tonight
Dancing in the endless moonlight
In the parking lot, in the headlights of cars
Someplace over the moon
Where they moved the drive-in theater
Where I left the car that I can't find that I still got the keys to

Let it ride
Let it ride easy down the road
Let it ride
Let it take away all of this darkness
Let it ride
Let it rock me in the arms of strangers, angels until it brings me home
Let it ride
Let it roll
Let it go
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He's out of the penalty box?
Posted 1 year ago by roadie    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}
Posted 7 years ago by CCinSB    [ Reply ]
One of my absolute Fave's of Ryan!

Many thx for playin' this!!
Posted 7 years ago by Elvis78    [ Reply ]
Not really down with the latest evolutionary step in the RA songbook, but he does remain one of the most creative singer/songwriters of the recent past.    Cold Roses has a great range and is an album I find myself going back to every now and again.  Not quite sure what the whole Taylor Swift fascination was all about...
Posted 8 years ago by fandango57    [ Reply ]
 bam23 wrote:

I was in Chicago in October 2014. Ryan Adams played at the Chicago Theater one night and, it's true, Bryan Adams was at the same venue either the next night, or 2 days later. Room for confusion I suppose.

 
At some point he embraced this whole thing and did a cover of "Summer of 69", I think at a venue at which he had previously yelled at a concert-goer for requesting it. Something like that.
Posted 8 years ago by nutrod42    [ Reply ]
 bam23 wrote:

I was in Chicago in October 2014. Ryan Adams played at the Chicago Theater one night and, it's true, Bryan Adams was at the same venue either the next night, or 2 days later. Room for confusion I suppose.

 
What confusion? One of them is a fine photographer.
Posted 8 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 dc_zee wrote:

Don't let Ryan see this!  He apparently goes ballistic when people confuse him with (unmentionable name here). 

 
I was in Chicago in October 2014. Ryan Adams played at the Chicago Theater one night and, it's true, Bryan Adams was at the same venue either the next night, or 2 days later. Room for confusion I suppose.
Posted 8 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
 Clever :)
gusthemonkey wrote:
Sitter  just 'told us something good'   ;P 
 

 


Posted 8 years ago by papersitter    [ Reply ]
Sitter  just 'told us something good'   ;P 
 
Posted 9 years ago by gusthemonkey    [ Reply ]
I was seriously just thinking about logging off to play this!
Posted 9 years ago by papersitter    [ Reply ]
When I heard Bill presenting the song I understood "Bryan Adams" and it just did not make sense to me when the music started, then I understood what a huge difference a single letter can make (this is much better btw!)
Posted 9 years ago by hugogdt    [ Reply ]
 govna wrote:
badass song.

 
Close...just Bad!
Posted 10 years ago by Rockit999    [ Reply ]
 peterhgrimm wrote:
Wow, I thought you said Bryan Adams... I was like, hey this guy sounds great, better than ever! He's had some kind of mid life catharsis.

Still, a decent song...

 
Don't let Ryan see this!  He apparently goes ballistic when people confuse him with (unmentionable name here). 
Posted 10 years ago by dc_zee    [ Reply ]
Wow, I thought you said Bryan Adams... I was like, hey this guy sounds great, better than ever! He's had some kind of mid life catharsis.

Still, a decent song...
Posted 10 years ago by peterhgrimm    [ Reply ]
 jbwiv wrote:
Not all his stuff clicks with me, but this is one of my favorites. Great tune.
 
Agreed - some of his stuff is a little drab, I just can't get in to it for whatever reason.  Some of his stuff is great, as good as anything in the business.  I'd put this song up there near the top, he nailed it.

Posted 13 years ago by BKardon    [ Reply ]
 jnhashmi wrote:
I have a different, better version of this song...?
 
Well, send it on!  There are instructions for submitting songs - don't be shy.  Always room for new music, even if a song's already listed. A new version adds to the mix! {#Yes}
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Good stuff, sometimes I forget how great he can be. More Ryan Adams please Bill. :-)
Posted 13 years ago by JavaJones    [ Reply ]
Don't like Ryan Adams... at all.
Posted 13 years ago by cirruss    [ Reply ]
You're right. Cold roses is a great song.
Posted 14 years ago by rutski    [ Reply ]
 horstman wrote:
This album cover would make a really good doormat!
 

Actually, it's a lovely cover - it's blind-embossed. Looks like a old ceiling tile.
Posted 14 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
Two-disc set—uh, not exactly "new," Bill—all of which is pretty durn good. Yeehah!
Posted 15 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
 govna wrote:
badass song.
  Love this and "Cold Roses" {#Dancingbanana_2}


Posted 15 years ago by WayUpNorth    [ Reply ]
Not all his stuff clicks with me, but this is one of my favorites. Great tune.
Posted 15 years ago by jbwiv    [ Reply ]
I was doing other stuff, working, here in the house, talking to the family, this was on in the background.  Maybe it was in the background, but some part of my overtaxed brain picked up on this and I had to come over and see who and what this was.  Very nice.  I really rather like this.  An 8 on the first listen and looking forward to hearing again.  Cheers!
Posted 15 years ago by dolfan    [ Reply ]
I have a different, better version of this song...?
Posted 15 years ago by jnhashmi    [ Reply ]
 govna wrote:
badass song.
 
{#Clap}

Posted 15 years ago by von_Hayek    [ Reply ]

TEN!!

We're seeing Ryan and Oasis in London, Ontario in December, the show that was postponed after Noel Gallagher was attacked in Toronto.


Posted 15 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
badass song.
Posted 15 years ago by govna    [ Reply ]
This album cover would make a really good doormat!
Posted 16 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
Some very nice guitar work here.
Posted 16 years ago by nigelr    [ Reply ]
I thought Bill just said BRYAN Adams...phew! lucky escape!
Posted 16 years ago by drews    [ Reply ]
Photo-John wrote:
Ryan Adams is too good for his own good. I hope he survives his own genius.
Perfect
Posted 16 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
billbangert wrote:
really really average, it's been done many many times before by a variety of artists. Nothing original here.
Enlighten us. Who are these artists? Why isn't this original? Yours truly Somebody who doesn't take sweeping generalizations lying down.
Posted 16 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
really really average, it's been done many many times before by a variety of artists. Nothing original here.
Posted 16 years ago by billbangert    [ Reply ]
Saw him do it in Knoxville...he mustve been snorting bad cocaine cuz he wuz total stand offish but the whole concert reached a peak when "Let It Ride" wuz performed...great song
Posted 17 years ago by musicfreak607    [ Reply ]
Ryan Adams is too good for his own good. I hope he survives his own genius. God, I love his music.
Posted 17 years ago by Photo-John    [ Reply ]
Love it lots and lots
Posted 18 years ago by smadanayr    [ Reply ]
Nice to hear this again..
Posted 18 years ago by tony620d    [ Reply ]
I hear a little "Panama Red" thing goin' on here ... He'll steal your woman then he'll rob your head.
Posted 18 years ago by kazuma    [ Reply ]
Wow....love the Ryan!!!
Posted 18 years ago by Alexandra    [ Reply ]
Great tune - and right after a string of great tunes (Steely Dan, etc) Bill, you are on an absolute roll. . . it's friday afternoon and time to go home and I don't want to leave!
Posted 18 years ago by bindi    [ Reply ]
10, 10 this song is actually 10 times more than 10 :)
Posted 18 years ago by Kerly    [ Reply ]
I loooove Ryan.... great performer...really honest in his music...not bad this "cold roses" but I think at "love is hell 1&2" like one of my favourites records ever!!!...so deep his voice, so deep his music...just can't stop listening it when I need emotions
Posted 18 years ago by exciter76    [ Reply ]
Mangoman wrote:
Wow-- He sure dropped off the radar, didn't he? I wonder why?
Dropped off the radar? He put out 3 cd's in 2006- and cold roses was a double cd!
Posted 18 years ago by ploba    [ Reply ]
MORE WHISKEYTOWN!!
Posted 18 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
freeone1 wrote:
"Summer of '69" was BRYAN Adams, he is not quite the same as RYAN, not nearly...I hear this confusion practically EVERY time I mention his music. Ryan is wayyyy better, (in my humble opinion of course!)
That zinging sound is the original post going over your head in a blur of sarcasm. Or did I just miss your sarcasm about the first sarcasm? Let me know....
Posted 19 years ago by Jerry_Scott    [ Reply ]
"Cold Roses" is in my opinion the best after "Gold" as it suprises, not like the other albums. Thumbs up for Ryan! Not Bryan :P
Posted 19 years ago by Kerly    [ Reply ]
Mangoman wrote:
Wow-- He sure dropped off the radar, didn't he? I wonder why?
His downfall seems to be that he has begun to write an enormous amount of material in a short period of time but has forgotten how to separate the wheat from the chaff. Some of his career decisions also seem more driven by spiting the record company than by good music - almost the entirety of Rock N Roll, for one egregious example. But I do enjoy an awful lot of what's on the new album even if it's all just a bit to much to digest.
Posted 19 years ago by ladybinnath    [ Reply ]
because he was upstaged by his own ego ! i am always dissapointed by how much i like his songs - cause i think he's such a prick - there are usualy 4 or 5 gems on each of his records though
Posted 19 years ago by dannytdot    [ Reply ]
Wow-- He sure dropped off the radar, didn't he? I wonder why?
Posted 19 years ago by Mangoman    [ Reply ]
Roverfish wrote:
Wow, he's come so far since that "Summer of '69" tune. I'm sure he's never heard that one. Likeable tune from a guy who continues to surprise.
"Summer of '69" was BRYAN Adams, he is not quite the same as RYAN, not nearly...I hear this confusion practically EVERY time I mention his music. Ryan is wayyyy better, (in my humble opinion of course!)
Posted 19 years ago by freeone1    [ Reply ]
wow, i clicked on this just now and was rather surprised to see i'd rated a ryan adams song 10, started wondering what i'd been all hopped up on that day but thought i'd better listen again for a minute. i think it's the way his vocals ride along the music very pleasent with the the electric guitar accompniament, good song i think i'll leave the rating for now.
Posted 19 years ago by th3boon    [ Reply ]
Not a big fan of Ryan Adams, but for some reason I just dig this song! :nodhead:
Posted 19 years ago by CBJr    [ Reply ]
Wow, he's come so far since that "Summer of '69" tune. I'm sure he's never heard that one. Likeable tune from a guy who continues to surprise.
Posted 19 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
Good song. I only have the album Gold but might consider this one as well. Right after a whole bunch of others....
Posted 19 years ago by babygirl614    [ Reply ]
Nice Ryan Adams song... sometimes I think he gets a bit whiny but not in this tune :)
Posted 19 years ago by emleamy    [ Reply ]
g-rod wrote:
Without having read the lyrics, they struck me as clever. "I'm never ready to go." I like.
Is it lame to post twice in a thread for a song you uploaded? Oh well...since i was brought up: LET IT RIDE Moving like the fog on the Cumberland River I was leaving on the Delta Queen And I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go 27 years of nothing but failures and promises that I couldn't keep Oh lord, I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Let it ride, Let it ride easy down the road Let it ride, Let it take away all of the darkness Let it ride, Let it rock me in the arms of stranger's angels until it brings me home Let it ride, Let it roll, Let it go Loaded like a sailor Tumbling off a ferry boat I was at the bar till three Oh Lord, and I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina where they're gonna bury me And I ain't ready to go I'm never ready to go Let it ride .... I wanna see you tonight Dancing in the endless moonlight In the parking lot in the headlights of cars Someplace on the moon Where they moved the drive-in theater Where I left the car that I can't find but I still got the keys to Let it ride...
Posted 19 years ago by TJOpootertoot    [ Reply ]
g-rod wrote:
Without having read the lyrics, they struck me as clever. "I'm never ready to go." I like.
This is the only Ryan Adams album I have, but I found his lyrics, on the whole, to be well considered.
Posted 19 years ago by 999_99_999    [ Reply ]
a step in the right direction for ryan. fingers crossed for the next two albums!
Posted 19 years ago by noralee    [ Reply ]
wbmarco2 wrote:
Fantanstic double disc album!!
Yay - my one and only succesful upload to date. "Wonderwall" is all fine and good but there's so much great original stuff it's nice to hear it. I have "Easy Plateau" in the pipe on the LRC and someone else has "Cold Roses" so here's hoping we'll get some more. TJ
Posted 19 years ago by TJOpootertoot    [ Reply ]
Fantanstic double disc album!!
Posted 19 years ago by wbmarco2    [ Reply ]
Without having read the lyrics, they struck me as clever. "I'm never ready to go." I like.
Posted 19 years ago by g-rod    [ Reply ]
This song is VERY catchy. It's not a bad thing, but something is forcing me to play it over and over again, and I'm probably starting to annoy those around me.
Posted 19 years ago by Four-Five    [ Reply ]
ahhh. it's lovely to hear him going back to the country sound. good stuff.
Posted 19 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]