Get all 9 Ryan Sheeler releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Road Home, Letters From North of Town (2021 Remaster), Roads We've Taken, A Star Above The Highway, Skies and Shadows, Polk County Line, Light In The Rain, Letters from North of Town, and 1 more.
1. |
Route 65
02:20
|
|||
2. |
Roads We've Taken
04:47
|
|||
|
Road’s We’ve Taken - words and music by Ryan Sheeler
Verse 1
We were all a little younger than, younger than our dreams
We thought our lives would last forever ‘least that’s the way it seemed
Little kids in shoes and snow boots…barely knew each other’s names
Every day we walked to school, and smiled on all our days
Chorus
(We were) reading a story and writing one ourselves
Scenes would come alive in the book on those shelves
This is our playground, and these are the times of our lives
After all the roads we’ve taken…now we see…the love of friends survives
Verse 2
These are the soccer fields and ball games where we used to play
Part of me remembers, and part of me wants to stay
I hold all the old pictures that my mind’s eye sees
I won’t forget the memories of when we were young and free (Chorus)
Bridge (*for our teachers!)
You may not realize just what you gave to us
You held our hands and shaped our lives – we gave you all our trust
(Solo-Chorus-End)
c.2020 Highway 30 Music ASCAP
|
||||
3. |
Set The Rain On Fire
04:25
|
|||
|
Set The Rain On Fire - words and music by Ryan Sheeler
Verse 1
What kind of water is in the well?
If it’s empty can you tell?
Drive down the road a ways…
To find the home the lost or can you stay?
Chorus
Set the Rain on Fire – and don’t chase the wind
Don’t let the fear consume you – before you even begin
If you could do it all again
Say something nice – find a new friend
Verse 2
Why does the map say “you are here” 😊
When your head isn’t really clear.
Maybe we just don’t want the right things
What we want is not what we really need? (Chorus)
Bridge
Sometimes we hoped for something else…
Back then what would you tell yourself?
c.2020 Highway 30 Music ASCAP
|
||||
4. |
||||
|
These Streets Have Changed - words and music by Ryan Sheeler
Verse 1
I spend a lot of time looking backwards
Down across the sidewalks that lead to memory lane
Friends have come and gone, (we) lost some old houses
New roads springing up as I look out my windowpane
Chorus
These streets have changed from now and then
We used to be neighbors, now we’re not even friends
We wonder all our lives, if what our parents said was true
Now we know…it’s passed on to me and you
Verse 2
Every day we used to walk to school
Across the street and down the block – we’d be on our way
Now we watch every corner, and look twice at every car
And we wonder how we’ve lost our way (Chorus)
Verse 3
Every night before I go to bed
I stand out on my front step and I look out at the sky
Maybe I’m just sentimental
But I’ll always pray to Heaven as I watch the cars drive by (Chorus-End)
c.2020 Highway 30 Music ASCAP
|
||||
5. |
Westbound
04:23
|
|||
|
Westbound (instrumental)
|
||||
6. |
||||
|
I Never Got To Say Goodbye - words and music by Ryan Sheeler
Verse 1
It seems like yesterday when you had to raise us alone
It was you against the world with my brother and I along
Just an ordinary family....we got along ok
you and Dad didn't have a lot, but you loved us anyway
Chorus
These tears of mine keep falling; I can't keep them all inside
all the years keep flooding back, before I dry my eyes
You held my little hand to make tears into a smile
let me hug you one last time...I never got to say goodbye
Verse 2
When we sat in church that Sunday, after dad passed away
I know your heart was heavy; you held my hand anyway
Those years you worked so hard to give us everything
they didn't go unnoticed; your love became our wings (Chorus)
Verse 3
I got the call last Wednesday; My brother said you were gone
So many things just slipped away, on the other end of the phone
Today it hurts so much to see that empty chair
Mom, I'll always love you, I know you'll be waiting there. (Chorus – End)
c. 2020 Highway 30 Music ASCAP
|
||||
7. |
Walking In The Rain
04:24
|
|||
|
Walking in the Rain - words and music by Ryan Sheeler
She found herself out in it…walking to who knows where
looking for a flower's bloom…hoping to see it there
For so many years it rained inside of her own mind
love pushed away, and locked…without a key to find
The rain of all the hidden hurt fell like a thousand tiny drops
A step in each puddle sounded as if her heart would stop
Each and every drop will fall into a living well
The vessel is empty now, but someday the rain will dwell
c.2020 Highway 30 Music ASCAP
|
||||
8. |
Unrelenting
04:26
|
|||
|
Unrelenting (Psalm 61:2)
Verse 1
Each day I wake and see – I’ve made it through the night before
A world of fear surrounds me, but your Son shines on my door
I’ve wandered off the road, that you’ve meant for me
But I’ll press ever onward, and bow down at Your feet
Pre-Chorus
Every time that I will fall
You pick my up again – yes You pick me up again
Chorus
Unrelenting – in Your love and Your power
Unrelenting – in the grace that You shower over me…over me
Verse 2
When my heart is breaking and I'm feeling overwhelmed
Remind me of Your love and turn me to Yourself (Pre-Chorus – Chorus)
Bridge
I’ll remember these days…and know You are here
When my spirit fades…I know you’ll be near
Please fill my heart again…yes please fill my life again (Chorus – End)
c.2020 Highway 30 Music ASCAP
|
||||
9. |
I Wish You Knew
06:25
|
|||
|
I Wish You Knew - words and music by Ryan Sheeler
Verse 1
Café window, street corner sign
People seeing something or they walk right by
Missing people disappear
(in a) city full of strangers where no one hears
Pre-Chorus
The sound of one heart crying…
Do you see them sitting over there?
Chorus
How many times have you said -- I wish you knew, I wish you knew
Is it your last chance to tell someone -- I wish you knew, I wish you knew
He’s the One who loves you - He’s sitting right beside you
I need to hear this too…oh how I wish you knew
Verse 2
Last-minute errands, cell phone rings
A moment rushes by and you’ve lost something
Conversations over coffee and tea
Tables separate the lives that no one sees (Pre-Chorus – Chorus)
Bridge
Tell me friend, what’s on your mind
I’ll listen in the quiet, give you all of my time (Chorus – End)
c.2020 Highway 30 Music ASCAP
|
||||
Ryan Sheeler Ames, Iowa
Guitarist and songwriter from Central Iowa
If you like Ryan Sheeler, you may also like:
featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 25, 2018
go to album
i burnt all my letters (deluxe)
by themme fatale
Recorded over the space of a year, the vivid pop songs on the latest from themme fatale match sugary hooks with diaristic lyrics.
go to album
Love and Hate in a Different Time
by Gabriels
featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 13, 2020
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio May 19, 2020
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 8, 2019
go to album
The new album on Z Tapes is the perfect blend of wry, witty lyrics and warm bedroom pop.
go to album
Touched by the Stuff
by Motorists
Toronto rivals San Francisco as the North American capital of jangle pop as evidenced by this new record of sunny jams from the Motorists.
go to album
