[Verse 1:]
She walked to the mailbox
On that bright summer's day
Found a letter from her son
In a war far away
He spoke of the weather
And good friends that he'd made
Said "I'd been thinking 'bout dad and the life that he had. That's why I'm here today"
(Pre-Chorus 1)
And at the end he said
You are what I'm fighting for
It was the first of the letters from war
(Hook 1)
She started writing
You're good and you're brave
What a father that you'll be someday
Make it home, make it safe
She wrote every night as she prayed
(Verse 2:)
Late in December
A day she'll not forget
Oh her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read
(Pre-Chorus 2)
It said "I was up on a hill, I was out there alone. When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding. And that's when I saw him, He came back for me. And though he was captured, a man set me free."
That man was your son, he asked me to write to you, I told him I would, oh I swore
It was the last of the letters from war
(Bridge)
And she prayed he was living
Kept on believing
And wrote every night just to say
(Hook 2)
You are good
And you're brave
What a father that you'll be someday
Make it home, make it safe
Still she kept writing each day
(Verse 3)
And then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground and out stepped a captain, were her boy used to stand, he said "Mom, I'm following orders from all of your letters and I've come home again"
(Ending:)
He ran into hold her and dropped all his bags on the floor, holding all of her letters from war.
