Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Dear Dianna
I still fold your name
In the corner of every page
Like a small
Soft shield
Sand in my teeth
But your laugh in my head
You were right about the nightmares
They’re louder when I’m awake
Jess
I saw a boy today
Same crooked grin as yours
He was selling little bracelets
Like he’d never heard of war
Connie
I swear I tried
To be bigger than my fear
Every time the ground was shaking
I pretended you were here
[Pre-Chorus]
Emily
You’re too young to know
Why your dad had to go
But if they ever tell this story wrong
Read these words and make them right (hey)
[Chorus]
If this is my last letter home
Don’t let my memory make you stone
Laugh at the dumb things I said
Not the way that I bled
Hold each other when you’re breaking
Use my jacket when you’re shaking
If my body never makes it back
Let my love be what you have
[Verse 2]
Dianna
Remember the kitchen floor?
Boxes
Bills
And broken plans
We were rich in every argument
Poor in every second chance
Tell Jess he can hate my choice
Slam doors
Punch walls
Shout
Better he burns up all that fire
Than let it rot inside him out
Connie
You got my temper
But you got your mother’s grace
You can cuss me in your prayers
I can take it from this place
Emily
Draw me as a hero
If you need to feel me strong
But also draw the crooked crown
So you know I got it wrong (yeah)
[Pre-Chorus]
I’m not brave
I’m just a name
Caught inside a bigger game
All I ever really wanted
Was you four
A simple day
[Chorus]
If this is my last letter home
Don’t let my picture haunt your phone
Say my jokes at holidays
Not my rank
Not my grave
Hold each other when you’re breaking
Use my jacket when you’re shaking
If my body never makes it back
Let my love be what you have
[Bridge]
If they fold a flag
Place it in your hands
Let it wipe your tears
Then put it on a shelf
You don’t owe this country
Your whole heart
Your whole health
You only owe each other
And a little grace for yourself (oh)
Tell them I did my best
Tell them I was afraid
Tell them courage isn’t clean
It shakes
It doubts
It prays
[Chorus]
If this is my last letter home
Read it out loud when you’re alone
Fill the silence with your voices
Not the sound of what I’m missing
Hold each other when you’re breaking
Use my jacket when you’re shaking
If my body never makes it back
Let my love be what you have
[Outro]
Dear Dianna
Tell Jess
Tell Connie
Tell Em
Every road I ever walked
Started
Ended
Back at them
Style
cinematic hip-hop ballad with heavyclose-miked piano and swelling strings; verses in tightbreathy male vocals with intimate confessional tonehook opens into melodic rap-singing and soaring orchestral layerslow percussion building from muted pulses to thunderous hits by final chorusleaving space at the end for a strippedfragile vocal and lingering piano decayballadorchestralrawheartfelt
Prompt
Cinematic NF/Eminem ballad. A soldier’s last letter from Iraq, 2003. To Dianna, Jess, Connie, and Emily. Deeply personal, raw, protective. Heavy piano, orchestral build. Heartfelt goodbye. Raw vocals.
Credits
Prompt by
Burnzy
BurnzyGeneratedFeb 2, 2026
ModelAria v5
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