Y the Letter (Electric Version)
A rollicking waltz blending Irish and maritime rhythms with 90s rock. The lyricist describes trying to decipher the reasons for a breakup from a (maybe metaphorical) letter his lover left behind. Clever wordplay uses the letter "Y" to stand in for the word "why". The perfect bar band drinking song.
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PLEASE WAIT - LOADING
Lyrics
Sitting alone with this letter of Y
The writing is hard to decipher
The spelling's just wrong
I twist and I turn just to see it her way
But nothings OK when she tries to explain
Why she's gone
Tell me something
I don't know
Just for show
The same old story
We all hear
It's your fear
I'll move on
When you're gone
I'm so tired of lies and another love dies
As I read between lines that hardly defines
What went wrong
You scream and you shout
just to get it all out
The words don't make sense so I won't take offence
Are you done
This letter of why leaves me hanging to dry
I drown in your mess but you'll never confess
what you've done
I don't easily crack but it's all coming back
I'd get up and run but you've already won
Since you're gone
Sitting alone with this letter of Y
The writing is hard to decipher
The spelling's just wrong
I twist and I turn just to see it her way
But nothings OK when she tries to explain
Why she's gone
Tell me something
I don't know
Just for show
The same old story
We all hear
It's your fear
I'll move on
When you're gone
I'm so tired of lies and another love dies
As I read between lines that hardly defines
What went wrong
You scream and you shout
just to get it all out
The words don't make sense so I won't take offence
Are you done
This letter of why leaves me hanging to dry
I drown in your mess but you'll never confess
what you've done
I don't easily crack but it's all coming back
I'd get up and run but you've already won
Since you're gone
