In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
She walked to the mailbox
On that bright summer's day
Found a letter from her son
In a war far away
He spoke of the weather
And good friends that he'd made
Said I've been thinkin' bout dad
And the life that he had
That's why I'm here today
And the at the end he said
You are what I'm fighting for
It was the first of his
Letters from war
She started writing you're good
And you're brave
What a father that
You'll be someday
Make it home
Make it safe
She wrote every night as she prayed
Late in December
A day she'll not forget
Oh her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read
It said,I was up on a hill
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding
And that's when I saw him
He came back for me
And though he was captured
A man set me free
And that man was your son
He asked me to write to you
I told him I would
Oh I swore
It was the last of the letters from war
And she prayed he was living
She kept on believing
And wrote every night just so say
You are good
And you're brave
What a father that you'll be someday
Make it home
Make it safe
Still she kept writing each day
And then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground
And out stepped a Captain
Where her boy used to stand
He said mom I'm following orders
From all of your letters
And I've come home again
He ran into hold her
He dropped all his bags
On the floor
Holding all of her letters from war
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
Holding all of her letters from war
On that bright summer's day
Found a letter from her son
In a war far away
He spoke of the weather
And good friends that he'd made
Said I've been thinkin' bout dad
And the life that he had
That's why I'm here today
And the at the end he said
You are what I'm fighting for
It was the first of his
Letters from war
She started writing you're good
And you're brave
What a father that
You'll be someday
Make it home
Make it safe
She wrote every night as she prayed
Late in December
A day she'll not forget
Oh her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read
It said,I was up on a hill
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding
And that's when I saw him
He came back for me
And though he was captured
A man set me free
And that man was your son
He asked me to write to you
I told him I would
Oh I swore
It was the last of the letters from war
And she prayed he was living
She kept on believing
And wrote every night just so say
You are good
And you're brave
What a father that you'll be someday
Make it home
Make it safe
Still she kept writing each day
And then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground
And out stepped a Captain
Where her boy used to stand
He said mom I'm following orders
From all of your letters
And I've come home again
He ran into hold her
He dropped all his bags
On the floor
Holding all of her letters from war
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
Holding all of her letters from war
Lyrics submitted by armylove1106
Letters from War Lyrics as written by Cindy Lavonne Morgan Cindy Morgan
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