Letters Lyrics

He kept a good luck charm pinned to the inside of his jacket

It was her picture: white shorts & a tank top, standing in the driveway

She hated that photograph, begged him to take any other

He said, 'There'll be more pictures, babe when I'm no longer away'

She wrote him letters each week, he read them over and over

About the kids at school, the weather, the goings on around town

How it snowed every day, the worst winter on record

She'd had to call up the neighbors to come break the drive with their plow

She wonders why he doesn't write home

An email here, the occasional call, a distant voice on the line

She asked him, 'babe, tell me how are things there?'

He said 'You don't want to know, but I promise you love I'm all right'

Billy lost his first tooth, he tucked it under his pillow

And his sister got the leading role starring in the school play

She recorded the whole thing, so they could watch it together

But halfway through the first act she ran out of tape

She wonders why he doesn't write home

An email here, the occasional call, a distant voice on the line

She asked him, 'babe, tell me how are things there?'

He said 'You don't want to know, but I promise you love I'm all right'

She wonders why he doesn't write home

An email here, the occasional call, a distant voice on the line

She asked him, 'babe, tell me how are things there?'

He said 'You don't want to know, but I promise you love I'm all right'