I was driving to Hastings yesterday morning and I played a new song that my wife had suggested I get. Every once and a while, a song will grab my heart and move me to tears. This song is one of them. Here are the lyrics. I highly recommend you get this song. You won’t be sorry. In fact, it is available on the iTunes Music Store, which is where I bought it. Check it out.<\/p>\n
Letters from War
\nby Mark Schultz<\/p>\n
She runs to the mailbox
\nOn that bright summer’s day
\nFound a letter from her son
\nIn a war far away<\/p>\n
He spoke of the weather
\nAnd good friends that he’d made
\nSaid I’d been thinking ’bout Dad
\nAnd the life that he had
\nThat’s why I’m here today
\nAnd then at the end he said
\n“You are what I’m fighting for .”
\nIt was the first of his letters from war<\/p>\n
She started writing
\nYou’re good and your brave
\nWhat a father that you’ll be someday
\nMake it home
\nMake it safe
\nShe wrote everynight as she prayed<\/p>\n
And late in December
\nA day she’ll not forget
\nOh her tears stained the paper
\nWith every word that she read<\/p>\n
It said I was up on a hill
\nI was out there alone
\nWhen the shots all rang out
\nAnd bombs were exploding
\nThat’s when I saw him
\nHe came back for me
\nAnd though he was captured
\nA man set me free
\nAnd that man was your son<\/p>\n
He asked me to write to you
\nI told him I would oh I swore
\nIt was the last of the letters from war<\/p>\n
And she prayed he was living
\nKept on believing
\nAnd wrote every night just to say
\nYou are good and you’re brave
\nWhat a father that you’ll be someday
\nMake it home
\nMake it safe
\nSo she kept writing each day<\/p>\n
Then two years later
\nAutumn leaves all around
\nA car pulled in the driveway
\nAnd she fell to the ground<\/p>\n
And out stepped a captain
\nWhere her boy used to stand
\nSaid mom I’m following orders
\nFrom all of your letters
\nAnd I’ve come home again
\nHe ran in to hold her
\nAnd dropped all his bags on the floor
\nHolding all of her letters from war<\/p>\n
Bring him home
\nBring him home
\nBring him home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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