All We Have Is Now

by Mike Ryan

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1.	We Never Talk About the Bad Things 03:18	lyrics	buy track
I’ve woken up I’ve found a spark I’d given up On Shooting Stars Why are we Only meeting now? I think I need To put you down Where we will go I do not know We never talk about the bad things We never talk about the low We never talk about the bad things We only make each other glow I’m staying up A secret night I’m looking up Into your sky Another dream Out in the dark An extra beat In my heart Where we will go I do not know We never talk about the bad things We never talk about the low We never talk about the bad things We only make each other glow
2.	Dublin 03:06	lyrics	buy track
Dublin Sitting in the sun Here today Gone tomorrow We’re away From all the pain and sorrow Dublin Sitting in the bar We could eat If you’re hungry All I need’s To know that you still love me I feel sad But at least I’m dancing To Here Comes Your Man The future’s bright But terrifying I want to hold your hand Dublin Sitting in the park Plastic cup Full of warm beer I don’t mind As long as we’re both here I feel sad But at least I’m dancing To Here Comes Your Man The future’s bright But terrifying I want to hold your hand I’ll never have enough of you I feel sad But at least I’m dancing To Here Comes Your Man The future’s bright But terrifying I want to hold your hand
3.	Being Perfect 04:00	lyrics	buy track
I long for warmer weather I long for lazy days Friends and conversations Nothing in our way I’ll be still and patient Listen to the sea Feel my bones stop aching As you wash over me Now that we’ve stopped being perfect We can just be good I might do the laundry And the taxes too Never feeling lonely Never tired of you Now that we’ve stopped being perfect We can just be good I’m forever open I want to feel the new Now that we’ve stopped being perfect We can just be good
4.	Sleepwalking 04:20	lyrics	buy track
Sleepwalking through the afterlife I will hold it down Sleepwalking through another night I won’t make another sound Sleepwalking through the emptiness I will pass the time Sleepwalking as the loneliness swells I find your hand in mine Fall asleep against my heart I will hold you in my arms I will keep you till the dark as gone again And your ghost can leave Sleepwalking through the afterlife I will hold it back Sleepwalking as the memories fade And I go back to black Fall asleep against my heart I will hold you in my arms I will keep you till the dark as gone again And your ghost can leave All this time out of reach I could only let you go All the secrets we keep You can never know Fall asleep against my heart I will hold you in my arms I will keep you till the dark as gone again And your ghost can leave
5.	Marmalade 02:38	lyrics	buy track
You take this egg And I’ll take your stone Back to our nest Back to our home You keep them warm And I’ll bring us food Back to the shore Back to our brood Our colours true Marmalade, I love you You take this flag And I’ll take your wing No longer sad Dance as I sing You take my heart And I’ll take you love Never apart More than enough Our colours true Marmalade, I love you
6.	1988 03:55	lyrics	buy track
Clause 28 I feel the need to hide away They turn love to hate Two steps ahead of one mistake Always on guard I can’t be proud It’s clear to me Not much has changed It’s 1988 Land of the free? A change of state I won’t feel ashamed Clause 28 I feel the need to play it straight Watch what you say We’re not here to educate Always on guard I can’t be proud It’s clear to me Not much has changed It’s 1988 Land of the free? A change of state I won’t feel ashamed
7.	All About It 03:40	lyrics	buy track
Driving home Somewhere dark that I don’t know Empty roads Mazzy Star on the radio Moonlit sky The passing sun set long ago I drink and dial Bathing in my phone screen’s glow I don’t know what the fuck this is But I’m all about it All about it I’m at the door Something drew me into you Been here before Can’t stop thinking about you I should sleep But I’ll wait for one more kiss I can’t keep From going on like this I don’t know what the fuck this is But I’m all about it All about it
8.	Every Candle 02:56	lyrics	buy track
Window’s open Curtain’s blowing Leaving I don’t need them A decade The life you have made Reason Another season All the trauma Makes you warmer Days are shorter Treading water When they blow out We’ll relight every candle Leave the sorrow Until tomorrow Mourning The church yard’s yawning Glowing Haunted houses Falling in love with you again All the trauma Makes you warmer Days are shorter Treading water When they blow out We’ll relight every candle
9.	Changing Colour 04:10	lyrics	buy track
I’ve sailed round this island too many times Can never leave the past behind I can’t leave you I’m waiting for the sun to shine For the sky to change its mind Waiting on you I need to hear your key in the front door I need to hear your footsteps in the hall My leaves are changing colour Will I see another summer? My leaves are changing colour But yours are too
10.	I'll Leave My Heart 04:20	lyrics	buy track
Always leaving something else behind Always feeling something else inside Where we go I don’t know This is real and it’s happening to us You say you’ll stay Then walk away I’ll walk you home Then leave alone I’ll stay awake Whisper your name I’ll leave my heart in your hands I’ll leave my heart in your Always dreaming of another life Always grieving for another time Where we go I don’t know This is real and it’s happening to us You say you’ll stay Then walk away I’ll walk you home Then leave alone I’ll stay awake Whisper your name I’ll leave my heart in your hands I’ll leave my heart in your
11.	Palace of the Peacock 03:33	lyrics	buy track
Island in the sea Where my people are free The shores that I call my home Island in the sea Where the good Lord finds me I’m making my way back home Oh, let me be seen Know that I was here Will my story ever be told? Will I find peace? Will you see me? I land in the sea Let the waves carry me My name you will never know I land in the sea May God carry me To the shores that I call my home Oh, let me be seen Know that I was here Will my story ever be told? Will I find peace? Will you see me? Oh, let me go home Please, honour my soul When my story is finally told I will be free I will be seen Island in the sea Where my people are free The shores that I call my home Island in the sea Where my soul wanders free I’ve made my way back home

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All We Have Is Now is the fourth album by Mike Ryan. It includes the singles Dublin, Palace of the Peacock and Sleepwalking.

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released August 11, 2023

All songs written, performed and produced by Michael Lee Ryan.
Recorded at Night Studios, March 2022 – July 2023.
Mastered by Russell Cottier.
Palace of the Peacock recorded at Crosstown Studios. April 2023. Produced by Jon Lawton.

Sleeve design by Michael Lee Ryan. Photograph by Joanna Ryan.

For Jo, James, River and Pixie.

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Mike Ryan Liverpool, UK

Mike Ryan is a singer/songwriter from Wirral, UK.
He writes and records at home using equipment that has no right to still be working. His new album, All We Have Is Now, was released in August 2023. Mike recently won the Audience Favourite Award for his song Palace of the Peacock at the annual Liverpool Acoustic Song Writing Challenge Final. ... more

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