[Intro – Soft acoustic guitar and gentle piano, sparse and intimate, like a late-night confession]
Fourth tour… back in the sand again…
I wrote you love letters, poems from the deepest part of me…
Words poured across the miles, every hope and every plea…
Promised you forever while the world was fallin’ apart…
You never wrote me shit… not one single reply from the heart…
Just silence on the line… until that phone call tore it all down…
“I’m splitting from you…”
While I was still overseas, still fightin’ to make it home…
You were already in Clearwater… leavin’ me all alone…
[Verse 1 – Gentle acoustic strumming, building softly with light piano]
Four deployments deep, while your running around at night
Risked my life for the family, for the future that felt right
Sweat in the desert heat, blood on these weary hands
Built a life worth comin’ home to in these unforgiving lands
I wrote you love letters, poems in the quiet of the dark
Gave you my soul on the page, every beat of my heart
Sacrificed my youth, every dream I held so tight
Only to learn you were already slippin’ out of sight
[Pre-Chorus – Building tension with added strings]
You never wrote me back… not a word to ease the pain…
Just a cold phone call from home that washed it all away…
[Chorus – Full emotional lift with acoustic, piano, and light drums, soaring vocals]
While I was overseas on my fourth goddamn tour
You were in Clearwater, screwin’ with him, destroyin’ everything I fought for
Ruined all I built with my sweat, my blood, my scars
Treated me like nothin’, left me bleedin’ under foreign stars
I did nothin’ to you — stayed true through the war and the rain
Wrote you those letters, those poems through the pain
You punished me anyway, tore my whole world apart
Shattered my life, crushed my heart, broke my start
While I was overseas… you killed us alone
[Break 1 – Instrumental break]
(Soft acoustic guitar picking with piano melody and swelling strings — emotional, reflective, building quiet intensity for 16 bars)
[Verse 2 – Slightly more driving acoustic rhythm, vulnerable delivery]
Came home to silence, your eyes colder than the grave
The life I bled for reduced to nothin’ but waves
Everything I worked for, every risk I embraced
You burned it all down while I was still in that place
Treated me like shit, like I was the one who betrayed
After all I sacrificed, all the promises we made
Punished a loyal soldier who never once let you down
For your Clearwater nights while I was still overseas bound
[Break 2 – Powerful emotional climax / break]
(Music builds to a raw, heartfelt peak — full band with driving acoustic, piano swells, and passionate vocals. No screams, just pure emotion.)
I DID NOTHIN’ WRONG!
WHY’D YOU TEAR MY WORLD APART?!
I WROTE YOU THE LETTERS —
YOU WERE OUT THERE BREAKIN’ MY HEART!
DESTROYED THE DREAMS! THE LIFE! THE MAN I WAS!
TREATED ME LIKE TRASH BECAUSE YOU JUST DIDN’T GIVE A FUCK!
CLEARWATER BETRAYAL! WHILE I WAS SUFFERIN' IN THE SAND!
YOU PUNISHED ME… FOR NOTHIN’!
Duncanstein
