“Let Her Go” is a Cautionary TaleĪnd the way the song reads honestly is as if it is a cautionary tale. Or as he himself puts it, he has only now to come to realize that he loves her after letting her go. "You see her when you close your eyes." But its too late, cause he let her go without letting her know how much he loved her, and how much she really ment for him.And the feeling expressed throughout is one of remorse. That is now that he has actually lost this lady he regrets doing so. Or more to how such sentiment is relayed, he has only now come to realize her true value in his life in the aftermath of she no longer being a part of it.Īnd he uses different elaborate metaphors to illustrate this point, specifically how people have a tendency to underappreciate factors which are actually essential to their well being. That is they don’t perceive their importance until they’re devoid of them. Then they come to realize, as Passenger has in this case, how foolish such callousness was in the first place. Everyday he thinks of her, and she is constantly in his head. He feels guilty and blame himself for not apreciating every second he had with her. "Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast" Untill one day, his loved one dies, and he realises that not everything lasts forever, and can dissapear in only one blink. "Only miss the sun when it starts to snow." He even went so far that he only called when he needed something for himself, "You only need the light, when its burning low" He does not appreciate all the little things in life. The song is about a couple, where he does not have any worries. It is not untill he does not have her anymore he realises he really love her "Only know you love her, when you let her go"īut after I listned to the song for about a million times, I got a new interpretation. He does not appreciate what he has untill she one day cannot stand it anymore and she leaves him alone with nothing. My first interpretation of this song, was about a couple, where one takes the other for granted. People have a tendency to idealize the past. It's fresh because he has an attitude that paints the relationship as better than perhaps it really was. The song alludes to the fact the protagonist is still reeling from the breakup. Sometimes it's even more telling than the relationship itself. It seems you learn a lot about someone during the breakup period too. I thought he was singing "You only know your lover when you let her go" which also makes some sense. You don't truly know happiness until you've seen the pits of despair. He is taking responsibility for the relationship ending with lines like: Sometimes in relationships, people take significant things for granted until it's too late to go back. There is a lot of truth to this song, since a lot of people don't realize they were really in love until after it is over. He realizes he loved her, while he was maybe unsure or didn't realize it while they were still a couple. He is remembering her now that they are no longer together. And of course, by the time he realises this, it will have been too late to get her back - she will have moved on to someone who can reciprocate her love. But ultimately, this song is about the regret of only realising after breaking things off that he truly loved her. It may be that his ideals of love are actually unrealistic ("Hoping one day you'll make a dream last"), and he keeps choosing to let love go because he doesn't understand that love can be a messy and difficult thing worth fighting for. The line, "Maybe one day you'll understand why everything you touch, surely dies" speaks to this guy's chronic inability to return love and form a deep bond with someone else. So he lets her go, because he feels incapable of giving himself over to what has actually become real love. I like to think of the backstory like this - it's about a guy who breaks up with his lover because he doesn't have the ability to recognize that he has something special with her, and he doesn't have the courage to stay in the relationship when she starts asking for a commitment from him. I heard this song on the radio for the first time today. 'Cause you loved her too much and dive too deep 'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast Only hate the road when you're missing homeīut you only need the light when it's burning low Only know you've been high when you're feeling low Only know you love her when you let her go Well you only need the light when it's burning low
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