Letter I Never Sent – Country Song About a Father and an Apology | Harlan Road

Letter I Never Sent – an original country ballad written as a letter from a father to a child he lost contact with. Harlan Road. It's in the drawer with the other ten. I'll send it. I'll send it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LYRICS I have started this eleven times since March And I've thrown out every one of them and started them again So I'm going to write it plainly and I'm going to let it stand And if it comes out wrong then it comes out wrong I was not an easy person in the years you had to have me And I know I made a hard thing harder than it was And I have got a hundred reasons and I don't want to use one Because none of them are worth the thing they cost So I'm not asking you to answer And I'm not asking you to call I just wanted it in writing somewhere That I know what I did And I'd undo it if I could And I can't You've got a life now and I hear that it is good And somebody told me you have got a daughter of your own And I hope she's got your stubbornness, I hope she's got your hands And I hope she never has to write a letter like this one So I'm not asking you to answer And I'm not asking you to call I just wanted it in writing somewhere That I know what I did And I'd undo it if I could And I can't It's in the drawer With the other ten I'll send it I'll send it And if you're ever driving through and if the light is on You don't have to knock and you don't have to stay But the coffee's always going and the door has not been locked Since the Tuesday that you left, and that's your father, and that's all That's all ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THIS SONG A very slow country ballad in the dusty road americana tradition — fingerpicked guitar, pedal steel and upright bass, with the drums holding off until the last verse. Written as a letter rather than a story, from a father to a child he has not spoken to in years. If you love sad country songs, emotional country ballads, songs about regret, songs about estranged family, country storytelling, folk ballads or honest americana about real life, you'll feel at home here. Perfect for quiet nights, long drives alone, and anyone with a conversation they still owe somebody. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT HARLAN ROAD Harlan Road is a country and americana storytelling project. Songs about home, family, hard work and the long road back. New original song every week. Harlan Road is an AI music project. The music is created with AI. The lyrics, the direction and the world behind every song are mine. Subscribe for new country storytelling and acoustic americana every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE FROM HARLAN ROAD ▸ Sad Country Songs & Quiet Ballads    • Sad Country Songs & Quiet Ballads   ▸ Fathers, Sons & Daughters    • Fathers, Sons and Daughters   ▸ Harlan Road – All Songs    • Harlan Road – All Songs   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #countrymusic #americana #sadcountrysongs #fathersanddaughters #storytelling