[00:07.60]Dark Southern Folk & Blues | Letters They Never Read - GHOST OF THE SOUTH
[00:19.31]I wrote to you both in the still of the night
[00:25.87]Words I could never say outright
[00:31.37]Man grows quiet as his kids grow loud
[00:37.14]The world sways strange and I'm not proud
[00:43.69]One more letter folded tight
[00:51.59]Letters they never read
[00:54.80]Words I couldn't thread
[00:57.22]My hands rough, my heart bled
[01:00.26]But they're just letters
[01:02.97]Letters you never read
[01:07.92]Saw you both running toward a skyline of glass
[01:23.49]Shadows of me in the footsteps you'd pass
[01:27.88]I watched like a stranger
[01:31.58]A man misplaced
[01:33.96]Time wore grooves on this lined up face
[01:37.37]One more page to the past
[01:42.45]Did I teach you wrong?
[01:45.76]Did I speak too plain?
[01:48.40]I just wanted you strong
[01:53.81]To hold through the strain
[01:58.71]Letters they never read
[02:01.77]Words I couldn't thread
[02:04.16]My hands rough, my heart bled
[02:07.18]But they're just letters
[02:09.85]Letters you never read
[02:17.15]I said what I could
[02:20.32]And I left out the rest
[02:23.60]A father's pride is a stubborn guest
[02:29.11]Regrets it's heavy like smoke in the air
[02:35.25]You reach for tomorrow
[02:41.60]I wasn't there