[INTRO] [Paper rustling, mailbox door opening] [VERSE 1] There were letters in the mailbox But nobody sent them out No addresses, no stamps Just pages full of doubt Some were written in December Some were written in the spring Some were only one sentence Some said everything [CHORUS] Blue mailbox Holding words nobody knew Every letter said “I love you” Every letter said “I do” Every letter carried pieces Of a life that never came And every one was signed With the same forgotten name [VERSE 2] One was dated seventeen years ago At exactly 11:17 It said, “I took the train tonight If you’re reading this, I’m gone” Another simply said: “I should’ve told you when I had the chance” And underneath the final sentence Was a faded photograph [PRE-CHORUS] The woman in the yellow coat Was standing in the frame The red umbrella beside her And someone missing from the name [CHORUS] Blue mailbox Why did you keep these words? How many lives were changed By things nobody ever heard? I held the final letter But I couldn’t make it through Because the handwriting on the page Looked exactly like my own [BRIDGE] Maybe the things we leave behind Don’t disappear at all They wait inside the places Where we’re afraid to call [FINAL CHORUS] Blue mailbox Now I understand Every letter was a doorway Every silence was a hand And somewhere in the distance I heard a train roll by Eleven seventeen Underneath a midnight sky [OUTRO] [Mailbox closes] [Whisper] “Don’t forget.”
