Track 5 of the album Paper Moon Rent · 2011
Write It Down and Leave It on the Seat
“I wrote this one in pencil on a late bus, which is the only honest way to write a letter. The bus driver hummed along.”
jazz ballad · torch song · late-night · 3:49
Lyrics
I wrote a letter on the late bus home In pencil, on the back of a bill I never knew the name to put on top So I left it where the seat was still I wrote about the way you laughed At something no one said I wrote about the empty chair And the words I held instead Write it down and leave it on the seat Let a stranger read what's true Some things are meant to travel on When they can't get through to you Maybe someone found it by the dawn Maybe someone read it twice Maybe they were missing somebody too And it helped them think it nice Write it down and leave it on the seat Let a stranger read what's true Some things are meant to travel on When they can't get through to you I won't ever know who held it Or if it made them cry But a letter's never wasted If it's read beneath the sky Write it down and leave it on the seat Let a stranger read what's true Some things are meant to travel on When they can't get through to you Write it down And leave it on the seat