[Intro] Rain on the window. Pen on the page. Another night. Another letter with no reply. [Verse 1] Dear whoever reads this if it ever leaves my desk I played that first tape till the plastic split and bled I know your kids’ names, I know the streets you used to roam I talk to you at 2 a.m. like you already know They laugh and say I’m crazy, say I take it way too far But you wrote my whole life back when I didn’t have a heart [Verse 2] I sent the photos, sent the mix, sent the note inside the sleeve I waited by the mailbox till the frost bit through my sleeves You said “thanks for listening” once in some interview I rewound that sentence till it almost sounded true My girl’s already packed, she says I disappeared for good I told her you would write me if she only understood [Chorus 1] I hear you knocking through the static in the rain Every page you send me lands like a bruise I can’t explain You built a chapel out of tracks I barely meant Now you sleep in the dark where my chorus never ends I never asked to be the shrine inside your room I never signed the vow you carved beneath the moon You keep on calling like the silence is a crime I’m running out of gentle ways to give you time Hey you… this letter’s all I got tonight [Verse 3] It’s been six months of nothing, not a whisper, not a sign I drove past the studio just to sit and waste the night I carved your lyrics in the dashboard like a prayer that wouldn’t stick I told the rearview mirror you were coming back for this If you don’t want a fan then say it with your chest Don’t leave a hungry dog to guess what “loyal” even meant [Verse 4] Last letter, I swear it, even if my hands don’t shake I packed the trunk with everything I couldn’t stand to take If this one disappears like all the others in the rain Then maybe you were never listening anyway I used to think the songs were written just to pull me through Now I think they only taught me how to disappear for you [Chorus 2] The ink is shaking but the hunger doesn’t fade You turned a stranger’s voice into the only god you prayed I never promised I would answer every scar you wear I never promised I would meet you anywhere You keep rewriting endings I don’t have the right to close You keep on bleeding meaning into every line I chose The rain keeps writing letters I don’t know how to send I’m sorry that the silence felt like I became your friend Hello… I read you. That has to be the end. [Bridge] If the morning finds this envelope still sealed Don’t call it crazy. Call it how the hunger feels. Some people need a god. Some people need a name. I only needed one voice. You never said the same. [Final Chorus] So, fold this page and put it with the ones you never read I won’t keep knocking on a door that stays unsaid You can keep the myth. I’ll keep the wreck I made A chapel built from choruses that never learned my name I walked into your music looking for a place to stand I walked out with a story that I never meant to plan The rain can have the letters. Let the river take the ink This is the last time I will ask you what you think Hey you… I’m putting down the pen tonight Hey you… I’m putting down the pen tonight [Outro]
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