Tear Stained Letter (Album Version)

I'm gonna write a tear stained letter

I'm gonna mail it straight to you

I'm gonna bring back to your mind

What you said about always bein' true

Bout our secret hidin' places

Bein' daily satisfied

I can see you sittin' and readin' it

While you hang you head and cry

I just hope you're not so sad

You're gonna go down suicide

I'm gonna write a tear stained letter:

Put it special delivery

'Cause it's gonna be full of stuff

That's only known to you and me

'Bout how every time I get turned on

You turn me off and bring me down

It'll be about the darkest news

That ever did arrive in your hometown

It'll be about the saddest thing

Your mailman ever did bring around

I'm gonna write a tear stained letter

I'm gonna tell you one more time

That you still could reconsider

And come back to bein' mine

An' if you think about what I'm sayin'

It'd be hard to refuse

Just be sure you think a long time

On the answer that you choose

It will be a most important piece

Of personal private news

I'm gonna write a tear stained letter:

Mark it ＂Personal Private News ＂

An' I hope you'll keep it to yourself

An' don't go 'round cryin' the blues

Givin' off a bad impression

As to what went really wrong

When what it was was that suddenly

The music was all gone

And this man and this woman got cut off

In the middle of our song

I'm gonna write a tear stained letter:

I'm gonna put it to a tune

So I'll be sendin' with it

A sweet melody for you

And not some red-hot upbeat zinger

That'll set your body on fire

But a hunk of love included

Meant to take you a little higher

And to settle on your sweet sweet mind

At night when you retire

I'm gonna write a tear stained letter