07. Natto Letters from the West — Lexmilian de Mello

[BEGIN SUNO LYRICS] [Intro - acoustic guitar] Time slipped through my fingers, Like sand beside the sea. I wrote before I measured What the silence meant to me. [Verse 1] How are you beneath the morning? Are you shining where you are? I have been chasing applications, Counting hopes like distant stars. Not for gold to crown my pillow, Though I know its velvet song, But to give when I am able, To make right what has been wrong. [Pre-Chorus] There is a lawsuit in the distance, There is work I hope to find, There is charity in the future, There are questions in my mind. [Chorus] Natto letters from the west, A little strange, but sent with care. Across the blue, I wish you best, Maybe friendship meets me there. Natto letters, honest lines, Hiking roads and candle signs. If you answer, let it be A free hello across the sea. [Verse 2] Fridays are my sanctuary, Reserves and trees and open ground. When the last trail gives its silence, Squash may bring the echoes round. Chicken after holy walking, Pizza for a birthday night, Health and weakness, rules and cheat days, Human colours in the light. [END SUNO LYRICS] [BEGIN SUNO LYRICS] [Extension 1 - warmer] [Verse 3] Far from town, a medieval faire, Knights and peasants in the air. Kings and jesters, bells and dust, Old costumes teaching modern trust. Japan has lived inside my wonder Since I was a little child; Now I open boxes of natto, Brave, confused, and reconciled. [Chorus] Natto letters from the west, A little strange, but sent with care. Across the blue, I wish you best, Maybe friendship meets me there. Natto letters, honest lines, Hiking roads and candle signs. If you answer, let it be A free hello across the sea. [Bridge] What are your dreams? What colours stay? What food makes fire Inside your day? What do you study? Where do you turn? What kind of future Do you hope to earn? [Verse 4] I will not knock on every door, I tried that life in years before. Kindred souls may live nearby, Still some are found beneath a foreign sky. [END SUNO LYRICS] [BEGIN SUNO LYRICS] [Extension 2 - final letter] [Verse 5] I will keep this letter gentle, Not a weight upon your hand. Friendship is a quiet harbour, Not a flag stuck in the sand. If you write, I will be grateful, If you don't, I wish you peace. May your dancing, work, and dreaming Find their proper, bright increase. [Final Chorus] Natto letters from the west, A little strange, but sent with care. Across the blue, I wish you best, Maybe friendship meets me there. Natto letters, honest lines, Hiking roads and candle signs. If you answer, let it be A free hello across the sea. [Outro] Time slipped through my fingers, But kindness still can stay. A question mailed with open hands Can bless and drift away. Natto letters from the west, A free hello across the sea. [END SUNO LYRICS]