The Letter (Billy Elliot)

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON]
What's this?

[Spoken BILLY]
It's a letter

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON]
I can see it's a letter

[Spoken BILLY]
You can open it if you want

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON]
Thank God for that, the suspense was killing me

[Spoken BILLY]
It's from me mum

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON]
Your mum?

[Spoken BILLY]
She wrote it for us when I was eighteen, but since I couldn't wait

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON]
I see

[Spoken BILLY]
You can read it if you want
Read it out

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON]
Dear Billy
I must seem a distant memory

[Spoken BILLY]
Which is...

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON]
Which is probably a good thing
And it will have been a long-

[Spoken BILLY]
Long time

[BILLY]
And I will have missed you growing
And I'll have missed you crying
And I'll have missed you laugh

Missed your stomping and your shouting
I have missed telling you off
But please, Billy
Know that I was always there
I was with you through everything

And please, Billy...

[MRS. WILKINSON]
But please, Billy
Know that I will always be
Proud to have known you
Proud that you were mine
Proud in everything
And you must promise me this, Billy

[BILLY'S MUM]
In everything you do
Always be yourself, Billy
And you always will be true

And I will have missed you growing
And I'll have missed you crying
And I'll have missed you laugh

[MUM & MRS. WILKINSON]
Missed your stomping and your shouting
I have missed telling you off
But please, Billy
Know that I was always there
I was with you through everything
And please, Billy
Know that I will always be
Proud to have known you

[MUM]
Love you forever

[BILLY]
Love you forever

[MRS. WILKINSON]
Mam