Burn All The Letters

i am sorry that i set my sights
 on the things i read
 something meant for your husband
 maybe you left it under the bed
 once upon a love those words blew free and secret
 the pages lay around
 drifted to the hands of the publisher
 and the greedy generations on down
 burn all the letters
 (someone is always watching)
 the government's on the phone
 (whether openly or secretly)
 burn all the letters
 (now breathe life)
 send them on
 (into your story)
 to a safer home
 (i said burn it to secrecy)
 burn all the letters
 brand them in you before you go
 soldiers are coming to plunder
 but there are some things they will never know
 we made our love out of dignity
 dug our nails in the dirt
 (hung our towel soaked souls out on the line)
 hung our towel soaked souls out on the line
 we loved so hard that it hurt
 to ease my pain i took a pen and paper
 incarnate came the bleeding
 send it back before the public eye
 perverts it in the reading
 and burn all the letters
 (someone is always watching)
 ah the government's on the phone
 (whether openly or secretly)
 burn all the letters
 (now breathe life)
 send them on back
 (into your story)
 to a safer home
 (i said burn it to secrecy)
 burn all the letters
 brand them in you before you go
 the soldiers coming to plunder
 but there are some things they will never know
 burn all the letters
 ah the government's on the phone
 on the phone
 burn all the letters
 (all the letters)
 send them on to a safer home
 (send them on to a safer home)
 burn all the letters
 to you
 and you to
 to me
 coming to take what they can
 they cannot read
 what they cannot see
 mmm