Love Letter

My heart melted at this and I had to rebuilt it out of salty air and dusty floors and tenderness. It's very fragile now, and it still quivers every time I listen to the beauty of it - which I've done about fiftysix times now. I don't really know what to say. The words cling together like droplets of water cling to hair. It's all just so spectacularly, carefully, softly beautiful. And so, so sad.

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I'd like a flat white, a day of pale skies
and a real kiss
inside an old house by the seaside
you can take off my blouse
but take it from me, I'm a disorderly
and you'd be off better
writing someone else your love letter
'cause I'm always on the road

and of course I wanna know you better
but you know the way it goes
a telegram is no substitute
when it comes to living proof
oh, go ahead and write somebody else
somebody else, oh, anybody
your love letter

and I need a flight home, there's no day to argue
no, I need my pillow
oh, inside an old house by the seaside
you can take off my blouse
but take it from me, I'm a disorderly
and you'd be off better
writing someone else your love letter
'cause I'm always on the road

and of course I wanna know you better
but you know the way it goes
a telegram is no substitute
when it comes to living proof
go on and write somebody else, somebody else
somebody else a love letter

oh, living in that chest there's a big, big heart
one I've known from the very start
oh, living in that chest there's a big, big heart
one I've known from the very start
oh, living in that chest there's a big, big heart
one I've known from the very start
oh, living in that chest there's a big, big heart
one I've known from the very start

go on and write somebody else a love letter
'cause I'm always on the road
and of course, of course I wanna know you better
but you know the way it goes