A song about revealing a father revealing a long kept secret to the son. Remixed 2013
Stan loves music, is published (EMI/Capitol), and has experience performing on radio and TV when it was live in the good old days. These days he's just writing
Songwriter of pop, country, inspirational songs. I like to write. I travel a lot to Asia...so my music may have an Asian influence.
Lyrics
The Letter
Copyright Stan Loh May 5, 2004
VERSE 1
When we sang the songs Dad wrote,
Grown men cried openly,
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes,
We watched the wind, take him home to sea,
VERSE 2
Among his papers was a letter,
Sealed in mystery,
It called out, “please open me”,
Trembling fingers revealed the legacy.
Chorus
“I have to tell yah, there’s been trouble in my mind,
Have been acting so cool all this time,
For the past twenty years I’ve been battlin’ inside,
This is the truth I can no longer hide.
Don’t mean to cause you pain after I’m gone,
But the truth is, my son, you’re not my own,
Made a promise that soaked through my bones,
You were your Mother’s child before I came along.”
VERSE 3
The letter ended just like that,
For a while I didn’t stir where we sat,
In stark of night an empty silence,
I read the lines all over again.
Chorus
“I have to tell yah, there’s been trouble in my mind,
Have been acting so cool all this time,
For the past twenty years I’ve been battlin’ inside,
This is the truth I can no longer hide.
Don’t mean to cause you pain after I’m gone,
But the truth is, my son, you’re not my own,
Made a promise that soaked through my bones,
You were your Mother’s child before I came along.”
VERSE 4
The gates of my heart opened up,
My tears came like a flood,
Taken his love for granted,
Not knowin’ his love was much thicker than blood.
TAG
Yes his love was much thicker, much thicker than blood.
