Burn All the Letters

I am sorry that I set my sights on the things I read

Something meant for your husband maybe you left them under the bed

Once upon a love those words blew free and secret the pages lay around

Drifted to the hands of the publisher and all the greedy generations on down

Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)

Government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)

Burn all the letters (now breathe life into your story)

Send them on to safer homes (burn them to secrecy)

Burn all the letters

Brand them in you before you go

Soldiers are coming to plunder

But there are some things they will never know

We made our love out of dignity dug our nails in the dirt

Hung our towel soaked souls out on the line we loved so hard that it hurt

To ease the pain I took a pen and paper and incarnate came the bleeding

Send them back before the public eye perverts it in the reading

Yeah yeah

Burn all the letters (someone is alway watching)

Government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)

Burn all the letters (now breathe life into your story)

Send them on to safer homes (burn it to secrecy)

Burn all the letters

Brand them in you before you go

Soldiers are coming to plunder

But there are some things they will never know

Hey ya hey ya hey ya hey ya hey...

Burn all the letters

Government's on the phone (on the phone)

Burn all the letters

Send them all to safer homes

Burn all the letters

To you and you to me

They're gonna take what they can

But they cannot read