
It tells the story of a soldier writing heartfelt letters to a loved one during wartime — letters that remain unsent, hidden away as silent witnesses to love, longing, and sacrifice.
The music swells from intimate, fragile moments to powerful, full-band peaks, capturing the tension between private emotion and the chaos of war.
Lyrics:
Verse:
The candle flickers on the desk
Ink runs thin on paper’s edge
Your name — I write it just to see
How it feels beneath my hand
The barracks shake with distant fire
Yet here I sit, my one desire —
To tell you what I never could
When I still had the chance
Pre-Chorus:
And if this pen could hold my voice
And if my words could cross the miles
I’d pour the whole of who I am
Into these fragile lines
Chorus:
Letters never sent, but written all the same
Carried in my heart through smoke and through the flame
If you could read them now, you’d see the truth I hid —
That every word I never said was everything I did
Verse:
I tell you of the winter here
The snow that swallows sound and fear
The faces gone from mess hall seats
The songs we used to know
I fold each page with trembling hands
Tuck it where no one understands
For orders say we march at dawn —
And dawn will let me go
Pre-Chorus:
And if my ink should run with red
If time should tear this paper thin
I’ll hope the wind might carry them
To where your dreams begin
Chorus:
Letters never sent, but written all the same
Carried in my heart through smoke and through the flame
If you could read them now, you’d see the truth I hid —
That every word I never said was everything I did
Bridge:
One day they’ll find this uniform
Tattered like a flag long torn
And in the pocket, folded neat
A life you never knew I’d keep
Not medals, not the orders read —
But pages inked in black and red
Each one a map back home to you
Across the years, across the dead
Chorus:
Letters never sent, but written all the same
Carried in my heart through smoke and through the flame
If you could read them now, you’d see the truth I hid —
That every word I never said was everything…
Chorus:
Letters never sent, but burning in my chest
Every line a prayer I never could confess
If you could hold them now, you’d hear my heartbeat’s call —
That every word I never wrote was the greatest truth of all
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