Ballad Of The Unsent Letter-The Moffatts

[ti:Ballad Of The Unsent Letter] [ar:The Moffatts] [al:How To Get To Heaven From Scotland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ballad Of The Unsent Letter - The Moffatts [00:11.03]He said 'We've never been so far apart [00:15.48] [00:16.37]As we have right now [00:18.95] [00:19.97]But then again doll [00:22.27]We've never been closer ' [00:25.46] [00:27.07]She said 'No distance [00:29.71]Place or time could ever make me love you less [00:35.59] [00:36.14]My smile's a song and you are my composer ' [00:41.55] [00:44.75]She was in Namibia sleeping underneath the stars [00:51.43] [00:52.47]With the lion's roar and guinea fowls a-hooting [00:57.61] [01:01.24]He was in the USA and running out of cash [01:08.35]He'd been robbed and he'd overheard a shooting [01:14.21] [01:16.88]One night he wrote a letter to explain his inside out [01:24.03]His heart was heavy and somehow he had to vent it [01:30.53] [01:33.12]So he filled some motel stationery [01:37.23]With words he couldn't say [01:40.24] [01:40.76]Kissed the envelope but never even sent it [01:46.70] [01:49.47]He'd claim that he was scared [01:52.28]That it would get lost in the post [01:56.75] [01:57.26]In truth he lacked assertiveness and courage [02:03.06] [02:06.21]Maybe he'd made promises he wasn't sure he'd keep [02:13.16]And he was terrified of fatherhood and marriage [02:19.43] [02:21.95]But he kept the letter tucked inside a book he never read [02:29.04]And back in Glasgow he unpacked and soon he found it [02:35.48] [02:37.95]So he delivered it right [02:40.37]There into the hands where it belonged [02:45.20]And said 'I'm yours [02:47.74]And now I know there's no way round it [02:51.86] [02:54.50]I've fallen out of bars in all the Western World [03:01.71] [03:02.56]Gazed drunkenly at stars as my wanderlust unfurled [03:09.78] [03:10.77]I've lain in countless cots [03:14.47]But I've slept in very few [03:17.92] [03:18.89]My mind and back's in knots [03:22.90]But every night I dreamt of you [03:28.42] [03:30.20]And now I'm home