Dear John Lyrics

Lyric discussion by user1951 

Cover art for Dear John lyrics by Aimee Mann

A song recalling the beginning of a relationship uses a title which predicts its ending. - "Dear John" letters were the most frequent fore-runners of suicide for men in combat in fiction. They must be devastating IRL too.

"Numbers come up" suggests he is dead and the Kuala Lumpur reference refers to the uncertainty.