Dear momma
I hope that you're alright
I can hear the thunder rollin'
Across the southern
sky tonight
Kids are asleep
And the TV's on
And I'm sittin' here alone
And I just thought
I'd write this letter home
I was the one you
were countin' on
The family's high school star
Jimmy and me
ran off that summer
Must've broke you
and daddy's heart
Yeah we didn't need
nobody's help
We were eighteen years
and grown
And I never sent
a single letter home
Letters home I wrote
them in my dreams
Askin' if I'd known
what I know now
Would it even have
changed a thing
The hardest part
of lookin' back
Is the mistakes
were all your own
It's harder to say that
in those letters home
Jimmy found somebody else
He told me that
on New Year's Day
Said he felt like a man with her
And I watched them drive away
Children and rent
There was no time for tears
Just time to carry on
I didn't know how to tell you
So there was no letter home
Letters home I wrote
them in my dreams
Askin' if I'd known
what I know now
Would it even have
changed a thing
The hardest part
of lookin' back
Is the mistakes
were all your own
You just can't hide them
in those letters home
Workin' a place
with some other girls
And we're all doin' alright
Raise our kids
And our jeans still fit
Sometimes we go out at night
I'm twenty-nine years
young today
And I've lived it to the most
And I just wanted
to send you this letter home
Letters home I wrote
them in my dreams
Askin' if I'd known
what I know now
Would it even have
changed a thing
The hardest part
of lookin' back
Is the mistakes
were all your own
It's harder to say that
in those letters home
Yeah it's so hard to say that
In those letters home