A sad, waltzy, cautionary tale about young lovers waiting for each other. Vocals by Alice Goodlaxson and Telea Dodge. Guitar by Telea Dodge.

Lyrics:

Dear Dahlia, I write you from South California
and you are still in Juarez
I waited for you on the Mexican Border for eighteen consecutive days
your mother is sick and she's been crying for you as if you're no longer alive
But I know that's not true for I can feel you every time I close my eyes

Dear Margot I write you and I'm trembling softly, your voice is a whisper to me
I tried to get past the men at the border but they caught me and won't let me free
I'm sleeping on concrete and clawing the window but my efforts they will be in vain
I swear you can hear me from South California as I keep calling your name

And we are both lonesome and we are both waiting to see each other one day
our letters go unsent and we are impatient to find the right words to say
and I will wait for you til South California comes crumbling into the sea
and I know if you don't wait I'll pray for the Gulf to flood and drown me

Dear Liza I wrote you this message in a bottle I hope you found it in the sand
I wrote it five years ago to the day the last time that you held my hand
and since you've been absent I've been waiting for you in the last place that we both did lie
and if you never come back my heart will stop beating and here is where I will die

Dear Samuel, I'm sorry, I write you in sickness
I'm slowly losing my head
my hands they are shaking my legs are not moving I cannot rise from this bed
I want you to find me so that you can hold me before I disappear
but I know you better and you're waiting for me somewhere so far from here

and we are both lonesome and we are both praying to see each other one day
our letters are useless and so full of wishes but still here in our beds we stay
and I will wait for you until I am brittle and my body can no longer roam
and I will keep trying and failing to stand up I'm so sorry I'm not coming home

so star-crossed like Shakespeare these lovers kept waiting for something that just couldn't be
time it kept passing even after their last hopes were swept away out to sea
and this is a warning to all the young darlings waiting for love with baited breath
for every romance that ends with a kiss there are hundreds that end in death

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