Dear John (feat. Jeremy Jordan, Santino Fontana & Erika Henningsen)
Will Reynolds & Eric Price
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"Letter to John Pace Seavering from Denis McCleary Dated 12 June 1936" Dear John Yes, I'm writing After all this time How's the publishing game these days? I know you probably don't want to hear From an old has-been like me But there's some news to share about Rosamund's How should I say? Hard-to-treat conditions She's been under the care Of Highland Psychiatric It's the third time she's there A psychiatric hat trick A mental hospital Nevertheless, the doctors have been encouraged By her progress And think that a few days back home In what they call a "family atmosphere" Might hasten her recovery even more Oh, you're writing Just a letter Want a brandy? I've already had four And it's going alright We are speaking softly I'll pour one for me But she's grown so thin Her eyes look within And they don't always recognize me I'll say one wrong word And the horse is spurred And, well, stitches have been sewn This business of my being on the wagon Doesn't help much either I've strictly limited my intake to white wine with lunch Red wine with dinner And cognac before bed But it's not helping me hack out any stories Because all I seem able to do is remember Do you know what I keep thinking of, John? The first day of April 1919 The first day of April 1919 You've probably forgotten all about it You had just moved in To that office suite Where the manuscripts filled up the floor You had worlds to win There'd be no retreat And that's when I burst through your door You could change men's lives And mine needed change And I begged you to give me the nod A man's fate arrives If it's at close range And he reaches out for it from God And at first you said "No" But then you said "Yes" I got married and moneyed The book went to press That novel made both our careers After all these years The Violet Hour The Violet Hour Rose? "Editor's note: Here there's a gap in the page And when the letter resumes The handwriting becomes jagged And indecipherable in places" Hours later I am back to say That Rosamund's Returned to Highland There were screams And a knife She had tried to It was bloody Thank God In this house The kitchen's near the study No, I can't keep reading this John, please, this is what I need to ask you As I'm writing The new novel We need money We lost it all in the Crash And I'm wondering if You might consider A modest loan No, a better thing A re-publishing In some kind of new edition Of the early stuff It would be enough To keep her in good care The Violet Hour might be able to draw attention As a period piece, you know And I really believe that if people were reminded Of how good I used to be They'd receive me better now Denny Denny I wonder how she's doing over there In the old days When she felt this madness coming on She'd secretly rent a room at the Plaza And hide away until she was fit to return to people Maybe if everything had happened differently back then It would be all right today Maybe the only thing separating us from contentment Is the price of a hotel room But then, her laugh I can't decipher it I gave my whole goddamn life for it I guess it's a code What she's lost, what she's owed How she hates me That laugh runs me through And there's nothing to do It denigrates me It devastates me Stop But on April First Nineteen-nineteen The world was as new as the dawn Now it's all reversed We can't wipe it clean I've gone too far and she's too far gone And though you told us "Yes" At first, you said "No" And I wish I could go back To ages ago John, I wish you had shown us the door And then Nevermore The Violet Hour Your old friend, Denny
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