Letters
Epistolary Echoes: A Melodic Tale of Love and Legacy
Lyrics
When I was young, my grandma lived two hours away
Expressing a memory from childhood when the speaker's grandmother lived two hours away.
When I first learned to write, I had a lot to say
Reflecting on the time when the speaker first learned to write and had a lot to express.
I wrote her a letter every week
Describing the regular practice of writing weekly letters to the grandmother.
She couldn't wait to get them, she couldn't wait to see
Highlighting the grandmother's anticipation and excitement to receive and read the letters.
What I was doing and all about my friends
Detailing the content of the letters, including the speaker's activities and details about friends.
What I was dreaming, places I had been
Expanding on the content, mentioning dreams and places the speaker had visited.
What I was hoping that I could be some day
Expressing the speaker's aspirations for the future.
I wrote it in my letters and I mailed them all away
Stating the act of writing these thoughts in letters and sending them away.
She always wrote me back, every single week
Recalling the consistent response from the grandmother, who wrote back every week.
And how I loved to get her letters from the time I could read
Expressing the speaker's love for receiving letters, starting from the time they could read.
Years later I was going through her things
Narrating a later moment when the speaker discovered all the saved letters while going through the grandmother's belongings.
And I found all the letters, she had saved for me
Highlighting the sentimental value of the letters that the grandmother had preserved.
When she went to Heaven, I cried so many tears
Expressing grief at the grandmother's passing and the tears shed.
But she's here in these letters, after all these years
Finding solace in the fact that the grandmother lives on through the preserved letters.
What she was doing and all about her friends
Shifting perspective to the content of the grandmother's letters, detailing her activities and friends.
What she was dreaming, places she had been
Continuing to describe the dreams and places the grandmother experienced.
What she had hoped for and things she?d like to see
Expressing the grandmother's hopes and the things she would like to see in the future.
She wrote it in her letters and she mailed them off to me
Reiterating the act of writing these thoughts in letters and sending them to the speaker.
She wrote it in her letters and she mailed them off to me
Repeating the idea of the grandmother sending letters to the speaker.
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