Hands on the Wheel - Erika Ryann



Original by Willie Nelson

It feels good to get this one off my chest.

I finally set up my equipment in the new house in Golden (Colorado) and this is the very first recording I’ve completed in the new “studio.” I don’t care to go into detail but this song in particular speaks to me these days. It hums in my heart in an aching way on a fairly regular basis and yet I don’t believe I’ll ever be able to listen to its album without stirring a memory that I’d rather just bury at this point…



I can’t say I would take anything back - I gave and loved and burned bridges. I starved and drank and pretended to be asleep while another heart beat kept me restlessly awake. Wrapped in a blanket I stood barefoot looking out over the plains with a lust for the vast and wild nothing to be found upon them. I intend to keep these things close to me…



“Goodnight sweetheart”

-E.