Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Letter Home, artist - Elvis Costello. Date of issue: 02.03.2009
Song language: English
The Letter Home |
| c/0 St. Ignatus House, Willoughby Drive, Parrametta, |
| New South Wales |
| This fifth day of July, in the year of Our Lord nineteen |
| hundred and thirty five |
| Why must I apologize every time that I sit down to write |
| Through my own fault I may find |
| You’re no longer living at this address |
| Please excuse the lack of news |
| The feeling of strange privilege |
| for the hour of trial, in these times of distress |
| Mean more than years imprisoned by etiquette. |
| I can remember when we were children |
| Though I could never imagine this day |
| Your brother told me we’d live forever |
| «I'll go one better,"I heard myself say |
| And it seems so strange, now that he’s gone to recall all these |
| games |
| While the years have divided us Friendships have strained and broken |
| Oh, by the way, how’s that girl that you wed |
| I hated you then, but I’m over the worst of it |
| I can’t come home, I might as well say, life is short |
| I shall not write again |