Please Write Me A Letter - v3 - Remake - Voices

Lyrics

0:00–0:40 Long atmospheric introduction 0:40–1:25 Fragile first verse 1:25–1:55 Slow pressure-building pre-chorus 1:55–2:38 Huge melodic chorus 2:38–3:02 Collapse into near silence 3:02–3:48 More fractured second verse 3:48–4:16 Desperate second build 4:16–5:00 Wider second chorus 5:00–5:52 Weightless ethereal interlude 5:52–6:32 Catastrophic slow breakdown 6:32–7:25 Final devastating chorus 7:25–8:00 Unresolved dissolving outro [Verse 1: Emotionally Crushed and hurting] I came out silent, lungs full of rain They shook me awake and I cried again Fourteen months later, my heart just stopped They brought me back to a house that was already lost My mother's eyes were going dim From the women's names he kept on his skin I was seven when the split came down They asked which house I wanted to live in now [Chorus : absolutely desperate and filled with hate and anger and hurting] So write me a letter......... ........ send it back in time Tell that kid on the wall he was never fine Tell him don't stay, tell him run, tell him fight But I stayed, and I stayed, and I stayed that night Write me a letter, send it back in time I'm the mess that he'll become, and I can't make it right [Verse 2 : Emotionally crippling and devastating] I picked the house that I grew up in He filled the cupboards and he left again Weeks went by, I learned to cook for one Eight years old, watching other people's Christmas morning sun No tree, no dinner, no gift to hold Just snow on the wall and a kid gone cold And the hate grew roots in that garden bed Where the families walked past and I wished I was dead [Chorus : unbearably heartbroken and Desperate] So write me a letter.......... ......... send it back in time Tell that kid on the wall he was never fine Tell him don't stay, tell him run, tell him fight But I stayed, and I stayed, and I stayed that night Write me a letter, send it back in time I'm the mess that he'll become, and I can't make it right [Verse 3 : absolutely desperate, broken inside] At fourteen she was my second skin Every day, every breath, she was in At sixteen our daughter came too soon Seven hours old, and I held her in that room She died in my arms, and something cracked And me and her never made it back We loved so hard, but the love wasn't enough To carry the weight of that kind of loss [Bridge : completely heartbroken, falling apart, emotionally crippled] Cousin, I'm sorry, I burned what you gave I broke one of the hands that was pulling me safe To my Wife, I love you, seventeen years and I adore you You keep holding a man who keeps drowning in tears And I can't look in the mirror no more I don't know the face that's been keeping score Every day I miss the ones I lost And I hate who I am for the lines I crossed [Chorus : absolutely exhausted, full of desperation and pain, broken] So write me a letter............ ........... send it back in time Tell that kid on the wall he was never fine Tell him don't stay, tell him run, tell him fight But I stayed, and I stayed, and I stayed that night Write me a letter, send it back in time I'm the mess that he'll become, and I can't make it right [Outro : begging for help, disappointed in myself, hurting so much] Can you see the hurt behind my eyes Can you hear me apologize For one day back, I'd give everything To say I love you to the ones I can't bring Could I Write me a letter Please Write me a letter I'm so sorry I'm very sorry So could I write me a letter And send it back in time, To stop my soul from feeling bitter, Then maybe I can feel my life is mine.