female-vocalled postpunk band the au pairs have a song called 'dear john'--which i cannot present but wish i could, as it is not easily/apparently available for free on the internet--which at one point incorporates a repeated chant of "this is a letter [beat] to make you feel better."
the graham-nash incorporating pop band the hollies have a song called 'dear eloise' which at the 'turn' in the song[the transition 35ish seconds infrom the prefatory bit of plot-framing] opens with the lines "writing a letter [beat] to make you feel better/sorry to hear that he left you that way"
the au pairs' response to the hollies' song is apt because where the hollies song is a leisurely, anthemic 'let me [the vocal protagonist] be the Nice Guy[with all the loaded meaning that capitalization implies] whose arms you fall into, subject," the au pairs' is--as denoted by title--a rebuke of/rumination on an unfaithful lover, in the true icy, twitchy, alien[while still maintaining an organic, visceral tone by means of the funkybass/drivingrhythm] postpunk style. also the vocalist sounds a lil like exene cervenka of hit punk band X in this track/in general.
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