"Every Letter" is a song featured in the 2021 film Cyrano. As Cyrano de Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) starts to write love letters to Roxanne (Haley Bennett) while posing as Christian de Neuvillette (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), the men sing about their love for her while she sings about her love for the person writing the letters.
Lyrics[]
Roxanne:
The ink on the paper makes me nervous
I nearly lose my vision
And then my breath, and my pulse, and my mind
Quicken
Head below my knees
I come alive with every stroke of
Every letter in every line you write
Keeps me awake
Thinking back oh...
My first sight of you
Was my first heart attack
Every letter makes me lose my reason
Every word is like your kindest touch
And if I told you how much I need you
Would you give me yourself or turn and run
You light up dеsire just by describing it
I read to mysеlf until I go blind
Your words fall around me all through the night
I can't resist and I don't want to fight
Cyrano:
Will you be held?
Will you be touched?
By my hand through this paper
Is this all too much?
Will we be ravaged?
Will we be true?
To somebody perfect
Somebody like you?
Christian:
I'm tired of yearning
I'm tired of learning
I need to drink you
My heart has been burning
Roxanne and Christian:
Ever since I saw you
Backwards through the glass
Of a thin window pain
Like a thin see-through mask
These words are the truth
Just let them sink in
Through your thin fingered gloves
To your hand, to your skin
Like ribbons on wrists
Let them hold you and twist
Let them touch you all over
Until you can't resist
All:
Every letter makes me lose my reason
Every word is like your kindest touch
And if I told you how much I need you
Would you give me yourself or turn and run
Would you give me yourself or turn and run
Roxanne:
You light up desire just by describing it
I read to myself until I go blind
Your words fall around me all through the night
Roxanne and Christian:
I can't resist and I don't want to fight
All:
Dim the lights
Give me everything I want
Just talk to me like you do in your songs
Roxanne:
Your letters are drawings on me from above
I know who you are and I know you are loved
