Neon CurrentRadio Listen
Cover of Postcards to the Wrong Address

Track 9 of the album Smooth Road, Long Shadow · 2019

Postcards to the Wrong Address

by The Lantern Hounds

“I found your old address folded in a glovebox map. I never mailed it, but the song got there.”

folk rock · wistful anthem · warm americana · 3:44

Lyrics

Found your old address in a glovebox map
Folded in the corner where we used to scrap
Five years of silence, not a single fight
Just two busy people losing the light

I wrote you a postcard from a gas station stand
Held it for a mile with a pen in my hand

So here's to the friend I let slip away
Postcards to the wrong address today
If you're out there singing, if you hear this song
Come on, come on, it's not too late, it's not too long
Here's to the friend I let slip away
Sing it like we used to, sing it like we're staying
Nobody left behind

You taught me three chords on a tailgate night
Borrowed my jacket, never gave it back, all right
I still wear the silence like a coat too thin
Wondering if you'd open the door and let me in

I wrote you a postcard from a diner in the rain
Wrote your name twice and I wrote it again

So here's to the friend I let slip away
Postcards to the wrong address today
If you're out there singing, if you hear this song
Come on, come on, it's not too late, it's not too long
Here's to the friend I let slip away
Sing it like we used to, sing it like we're staying
Nobody left behind

Maybe you moved, maybe you changed your name
Maybe you think of me, and it's just the same
I'll drop it in the box, let the mail truck run
Some roads take years, but they get us there, son

So here's to the friend I let slip away
Postcards to the wrong address today
If you're out there singing, if you hear this song
Come on, come on, it's not too late, it's not too long
Here's to the friend I let slip away
Sing it like we used to, sing it like we're staying
Nobody left behind

Nobody left behind
Nobody left behind