Indigo Girls - Burn All The Letters lyrics

I am sorry that I set my sights on the things I read Something meant for your husband maybe you left under the bed Once upon a love those words blew free and secret but 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 (breathe life into your story) Send them on to a safer home (burn it to secrecy) Burn all the letters brand them in before you go Soldiers are coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know We made our love out of dignity, we dug our nails in the dirt Hung out 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 Burn all the letters (someone is always watching) The government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly) Burn all the letters (breathe life into your story) Send them on to a safer home (burn it into secrecy) Burn all the letters from you to me They're coming to take what they can but they cannot read What they cannot see