Paper Love (4:06)

The song recalls and celebrates a small moment from an afternoon I spent in Minnesota during the summer of 98. I was working at a Young Life property called Castaway for a month. One afternoon, while sitting in my second story room, at a window looking over the property, I noticed a girl sitting on a bench just below the window, opening her mail. I simply wrote what I saw, with a dose of imagination. .. A song about the power of words, written or otherwise, to be a blessing.

Thanks for Becky Alexander, that girl, who was one of the work crew heroes working at Castaway that summer.

When’s the last time you wrote a letter to surprise someone you love?

From my window i can watch her, She is sitting just below

i see her very clearly, Though she clearly does not know

She opens up a letter And in very little time

it’s clear there’s something special That is written in those lines

She reads it very slowly And when she gets down to the end

She turns it right back over And she reads it all again

But i fear from here the writer must have known her very well

He chose the perfect paragraphs to catch her in his spell

Someone got a letter, someone got a piece of paper love

Could be something quite romantic or a bit of news from home

Maybe just a small reminder she’s missed while she is gone

But her day has turned a corner and it’s better than before

And she will not leave until she reads the whole thing through once more

Cause These are sweet words, these are wonderful words,

These are words of love from some familiar place

These are good words, these are magical words,

Out of nothing brought a smile there to her face

Someone got a letter, someone got a piece of paper love

(with thanks to Becky Alexander)


1. Change For The Better (3:33)
2. Most Of My Heroes (4:13)
3. Paper Love (4:06)
4. The Verdict's In (and the Thumbs are Down) (4:42)
5. Oliviatown (3:53)
6. Mary in a Martha's World (4:53)
7. Another Man's Shoes (4:13)
8. Part-time Center of his World (3:50)
9. Barefeet in the Snow (4:16)
10. Same Way Now (4:07)
11. The Things that make the Story Mine (6:36)

 

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