Letter In The Mail Lyrics - Never Die Young - James Taylor

If I could go down now 

While the whole town is sleeping 

See the sun creeping up on the hill 

I know the river and the railroad 

Would run through the valley still 

I guess it never was much to look at 

Just a one-horse town 

The kind of place young people want to leave today 

Store fronts pretty much boarded up 

Main street pretty much closed down 

The church bell still rings on sunday 

Old folks still go 

The young ones listen on the radio 

Saturday night nothing but a stray dog running wild 

Like nobody's child 

And little by little, light after light 

That's how it died 

They say you never go home again 

That's no lie 

Its like a letter in the mail 

To a brother in jail 

It's a matter of time 

Until you can do a little bit better time 

It used to be part of the heartland 

Awful proud and strong 

But deep, deep down peaceful and serene 

When people used to talk about the country 

That's what they used to mean 

I might go down come the weekend 

Go on my own 

Drop off annie and the baby 

Maybe drive alone 

Pay my last respects to a time 

That has all but gone 

We said, mama come look at the mountain 

Fire in the sky 

It's lit up like the fourth of july 

The mill burning down 

The jobs leaving town 

The trains rolling by 

And little by little, light after light 

That's how it died 

They say you never go home again 

That's no lie 

It's just a letter in the mail 

To a brother in jail 

It's a matter of time 

Until you can do a little bit better time