[ti:I Thought I'd Write To Juliet]
[ar:Elvis Costello/Brodsky Quartet]
[al:The Juliet Letters]
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[00:00.00]I Thought I'd Write to Juliet - Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet
[00:00.67]I thought I'd write to Juliet's
[00:06.32]For she would understand
[00:11.69]And when someone is already dead
[00:16.37]They can no longer let you down
[00:21.64]Instead I find myself talking to you
[00:27.32]As my oldest friend
[00:32.33]Tell me how I can advise someone
[00:36.70]That I don't even know
[00:39.27]To welcome death
[00:42.12]For I received a letter that is worth reporting
[00:52.27]And though it may raise a cynical smile
[00:57.28]It leaves a sinking feeling
[01:02.49]Like when a soldier in a story
[01:07.31]Says to the sergeant
[01:09.57]Have you seen my pride and joy
[01:13.60]You know the rest
[01:16.00]And it's no joke
[01:18.23]Forgive me please as I quote
[01:30.94]This is a letter of thanks
[01:36.48]As I'm so bored here
[01:39.09]In I can't say where
[01:41.75]So I'm writing to people
[01:44.73]That I may never meet
[01:48.12]And I was thinking if something you said
[02:09.54]I'm a female soldier my name is Constance
[02:15.58]I enlisted in the military
[02:19.23]Needing funds for college
[02:22.06]I'm twenty-three years old
[02:24.79]And if I do get home alive
[02:31.91]I imagine I may think again
[02:38.31]I'm sleeping with my eyes open for fear of attack
[02:44.68]Your words are a comfort
[02:47.76]They're the best thing that I have
[02:50.80]Apart from family pictures and
[02:53.66]Of course my gas mask
[02:57.11]I don't know why I am writing to you