Dear Anne Songtext
von Ryan Adams

Thanks for having me back
It′s good to be here
I just wrote two songs at soundcheck
I wanna play them for you, is that ok?
So this song is called "Dear Anne"

I read a book on you
You were doing fine
One lazy afternoon
You wrote in your diary
Your sister Margot, she don't talk
Peter, he′s sad and rude
My thoughts, they are with you

Who turned you in?
Who let you down?
Who sold you out?
The green police or the Dutch N.S.B.?
No, honey why?
You was a beautiful child


Yeah, and she was just 15
Yeah, and barely a girl
She watched the leaves go green
Through the cracks in an old window sill
What the hell did those people do?
Yeah, and how could they sleep
Once they laid their eyes on you?

Who turned you in?
Who let you down?
Who sold you out?
The green police or the Dutch N.S.B.?
No, honey why?
You was a beautiful child
Beautiful child
Beautiful child

Yeah, it broke your daddy's heart
Yeah, but you made him smile
Miep, she kept your book
With the cloth and red checkerboard tie
I want to thank you for your thoughts
No, they weren't mine to read
P.S. keep an eye on me


Who turned you in?
Who let you down?
Who sold you out?
The green police or the Dutch N.S.B.?
Oh, honey why?
′Cause you was a beautiful child
A beautiful child
A beautiful child

Thank you, thank you
So I went and bought the, uh, you know "The idiot book"?
For learning Swedish, it′s got English in and then Swedish
I'm gonna be a tyrant so bad, but I haven′t, I've only learnt some stuff

But I′m gonna try to learn how to like, you know, talk about cars or something
In Swedish first, something important, or irrelevant
That way if I'm not making any sense I′m not offending anybody, if I'm...
Probably saying something like, "You car is very fuck off", you know, I dunno
I screw up everything and I can't even barely speak English let alone fucking Swedish
Christ sakes, alright, so I just wrote this one about an hour ago, we′ll see if I can actually do it
If I fuck it up, just, it′s okay, I'll keep it rollin′ right along or something, uh yeah, leg off!

Yeah, no, no, no... don't encourage me, or don′t feed the bears
I'll be knocking on your door at four goin′, "Leg off! Come on, you know"
Alright, this is a little bit harder so let me see if I can do this
Then I'll get to the stuff that some of us know, I don't even know if I know it