Dear McCracken

Official Lyric Video is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWGolv2iqM0 When you absolutely can't resist reading the screen of the commuter sitting next to you... and you end up engrossed in their story. Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4rFCtVSxMGoWHl0qhXlmBy iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dear-mccracken-single/id1263973024 Apple Music: https://itun.es/us/GkRvlb?i=1263973028 Original Song and Lyrics by Bug Hunter. I just stepped on a plane, my bags on the shelf I find my seat in the middle and plan to keep to myself The pilot comes on, says: "there's been a delay" and I sigh, buckle up, and prepare for the wait There's a middle aged woman on my right by the window no ring on her finger, maybe divorced or widow? She's drafting an email and from where I am seated I can side-eye that shit, so of course I'm gon' read it. it said: Dear McCracken... this is already great dude's got a pen pal and a killer last name she opens with an inside joke and she's hoping to set a casual tone, her words carefully chosen she refers to the previous week spent in Philly How she's so glad to have had you to show her the city the trip was for business, she's used to the travel but this time she's not ready to head back to Seattle Dear McCracken, I'd rather be off this plane I can't admit the half of it that I want to say Do I pretend, do I push you away? I'm jet-laggin' McCracken and I'll give you, I'll give you your space I can tell by the abuse of the backspace key there's a heart balanced on how her words are perceived she's retyped that fourth paragraph four times swinging the tone back and forth until she's so satisfied that he knows that even though their paths have diverged there's an air of regret but not enough to reverse and I am stunned, there I sit, completely convinced that once you grow old you stop dealing with this the uncertain, the hurtin', the feelin' like dirt when things don't work out by the fall of the curtain she hits send, powers off, and we're ready to go and I am sad for the passion that McCracken, he might never know Dear McCracken, I'd rather be off this plane I can't admit the half of it that I want to say Do I pretend, do I push you away? I'm jet-laggin McCracken and I'll give you, I'll give you your space Dear McCracken, I'm keepin' this on my chest I've said a lot of things but none of them what I meant Do I pretend, do I try to forget? I'm jet-laggin McCracken and I wish you, I wish you the best and I thought, I thought by that age this kind of shit would be played out and I thought that kind of heartache was meant for the young but we're never too old to hurt and I thought, I thought by that age this kind of shit would be played out and I thought that kind of heartache was meant for the young but we're never too old to hurt I just stepped off a plane, I've got one regret I know I'll never get closure or ever see how it ends I won't know his answer, what happens between them why she kept her cards so close even she couldn't see them what gave her such pause when she so clearly wanted to tell you all the emotions she tried so hard to bottle and I'll never know why she kept the honest truth from you but Oh Dear McCracken... in the rough draft... in the rough draft... In the Rough Draft She Loved You.