Blue Airmail

Blue Airmail

1. Blue Airmail

Blue Airmail

(verse 1)

a blue airmail showed up

the postman brought me the envelope

I got distracted by the stamps

as the cold rain fell on the brick steps

the sender is someone I know so well

my lovely has something to tell

he's never coming back to our home

so I sat at the kitchen table and cried alone

(chorus)

how can words that flew on an airplane

cut so deep and leave such a loud pain?

if you was here in person I'd tell you that

I disapprove of our love life

but our upstairs bedroom will just sleep one

I'll send you your laundered clothes and be done

our time together was so casually given up on

(end chorus)

(verse 2)

winter will hurry here soon

to replace you and the autumn afternoon

the rain will freeze and the tears will turn to snow

but you will still be all that I know

I'm sorry, the city will still bustle

the distant train will still whistle

but your voice will be a ghost

and your warmth not being here will be the worst

(chorus)

and that manilla envelope

will still sit on the counter by my cup of hope

my silly ideas and dreams you'll return

the sender will reject and burn

I threw out your red toothbrush

I left your trinkets at the curb in a rush

it was all I could not to crush

your photographs

but our upstairs bedroom will just sleep one

I'll send you your laundered clothes and be done

our time together was so casually given up on

(end chorus)