Sadie Rayes - Letters I Never Sent (Official Audio)

Sadie Rayes - Letters I Never Sent (Official Audio) Taken from the debut album 'Avenues'. Listen to the album here: https://ffm.to/avenues Also available on CD and vinyl: https://elasticstage.com/bigdiamond/r... Lyrics: There’s a shoebox underneath my bed Full of pages nobody’s read Coffee stains and crossed-out names Versions of me trying to explain One to my father at fourteen One to the girl I used to be One to you from late November When silence felt easier than honesty I keep writing words I’ll never say aloud Like somehow paper hurts less now Everybody says closure comes with time But mine arrives at 2AM in badly written lines Letters I never sent Still living in my apartment Folded into corners of nights I barely survived Every “I miss you” Every “you hurt me” Every goodbye that never left my hands Just stayed inside me instead Letters I never sent There’s one addressed to Los Angeles As if cities can apologize One to the friend who disappeared slowly Without ever saying why And one to you I almost mailed After too much wine last spring Three whole pages of brutal honesty Followed by “hope you’re doing well” at the end Funny how I can write the truth perfectly Right until somebody might actually read it Maybe growing up is learning Some feelings don’t need witnesses to be real Letters I never sent Still scattered through my bedroom Tiny paper ghosts Documenting every wound Every unfinished conversation Every version of forgiveness Every moment I mistook pain For something permanent Letters I never sent Tonight the windows shake with summer rain Streetlights flicker softly through the blinds And for the first time in a long time I don’t need replies Maybe these pages were never about you Maybe they were just proof That I survived becoming who I am Letters I never sent Now they barely sound desperate Just honest in the way Young hearts usually are And somewhere inside all these sentences There’s a girl learning How to stop romanticizing suffering And finally let herself heal Letters I never sent Stacked beside my bed Like old versions of myself I can finally forgive Music video by Sadie Rayes performing Letters I Never Sent. © 2022 Tresdo Factory