I am a letter writer

 I am a letter writer

Been doing this way too long 

Day after day and year after year

Trying to right the wrong

I take to the computer

And tell you all a tale

Making it up as I go along

Writing it down as I sing my song

Listen while I wail

I am a letter writer

See evil all around

Sin after sin, losers who win

Danger just abounds

I hate bad politicians

Who lead us all astray

Making crap up as they go along

Turning right into very wrong

That is the game they play

I am a letter writer

Telling papers what I know

The New York Times my best friend

When they put me in the show

And when they print my writing

My head begins to swell

Looking for praise wherever I gaze

Aren't I great all congregate

To say I gave them Hell

 

I am a letter writer

With an audience of one

Keeping myself entertained

Is all that I have done

I cannot move the needle

Didn't even make it budge

Making a name, trying for fame

Burned out an extinguished flame

Trying to touch the sun

And so I write this letter

In apology to you

A little man with bigger plans

Too big for his own shoes

I hope you will forgive me

I mean to do no harm

Doing my best to pass the test

Trying to prove I really could

With just a touch of charm

(riffing off Billy Joel's The Entertainer)