I am sorry that I set my sights on the things I read
  Something meant for your husband maybe you left them under the bed
  Once upon a love those words blew free and secret the pages lay around
  Drifted to the hands of the publisher and all the greedy generations on down
  
  Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)
  Government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)
  Burn all the letters (now breathe life into your story)
  Send them on to safer homes (burn them to secrecy)
  Burn all the letters
  Brand them in you before you go
  Soldiers are coming to plunder
  But there are some things they will never know
  
  We made our love out of dignity dug our nails in the dirt
  Hung our towel soaked souls out on the line we loved so hard that it hurt
  To ease the pain I took a pen and paper and incarnate came the bleeding
  Send them back before the public eye perverts it in the reading
  Yeah yeah
  
  Burn all the letters (someone is alway watching)
  Government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)
  Burn all the letters (now breathe life into your story)
  Send them on to safer homes (burn it to secrecy)
  Burn all the letters
  Brand them in you before you go
  Soldiers are coming to plunder
  But there are some things they will never know
  
  Hey ya hey ya hey ya hey ya hey...
  
  Burn all the letters
  Government's on the phone (on the phone)
  Burn all the letters
  Send them all to safer homes
  Burn all the letters
  To you and you to me
  They're gonna take what they can
  But they cannot read
  What they cannot see