Great Songs Series: For Blue Skies
Posted By Claire on January 21, 2010
This is one of my favorite songs possibly of all time, by Nashville alt-country band Strays Don’t Sleep, made up of Matthew Ryan and Neilson Hubbard, which formed in 2006, had great success, and disbanded the same year, for reasons I’m unclear about. I first heard this song featured on One Tree Hill, but it wasn’t until after listening to and loving it for a while that I found out that it was written by Matthew Ryan about his brother, who was sentenced to prison for 30 years.
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It’s been a long year
Since we last spoke
How’s your halo?..
I never believed you
I only wanted to
Before all of this
What did I miss?
Do you ever get homesick?
I can’t get used to it
I can’t get used to it
I’ll never get used to it
I’ll never get used to it
..You alone with those pills
What you couldn’t do I will
I forgive you
I’ll forgive you
For blue, blue skies
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