Let Her Go

Album: All The Little Lights (2012)
Charted: 2 5
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Michael David Rosenberg
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Iricom US Ltd, Roba Music Verlag GMBH, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TuneCore Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 6

  • Kjsgad from NigeriaThis is indeed a very touching song; I first heard this song from the movie entitled "The Blacklist" this song makes me sad whenever I play it.
  • Jennifer Malinowski from Cohoes My grandmother really love this song and she shared it with us all. And when she passed away in 2016 all we could play was this song and we played it for her before she passed. This song for me has a whole other meaning. It’s the most heart touching song ever. And everytime I hear of it I think of my grandma. Our whole family does.
  • Labet from NigeriaThis song vis really killing me inside,I have a girl here whom I loved so much we have been together for 4years now she has been misbehaving and becoming to difficult for me to handle,now I'm considering letting her go.. And this song ache my heart each time I listened to it,it has been on replay for weeks now the worlds and the lines are just too powerful
  • Olumide from NigeriaI've never seen a comment about a song this real.
  • Sandra from NigeriaWow, Mark, your comment is so beautiful. Making me see this song in another way round.
  • Mark Grant from Natchitoches, LaYeah, I read all the above comments about Mike Rosenberg writing Let Her Go after a break-up and that's great and all; I mean it's sad, and the song is great and now they are sort of friends again - that's great. But I think this song transcends a break-up; it's larger than that. In my case I have been married - happily married I add, to the same lady for over 30 years and I was career military with 3 combat tours of duty in the war against terrorism, but in the almost 25 years that I was in the Army I was gone a lot.... A LOT ! And once I retired from the Army I went right back to the war working for a command in in the Department of the Army. I've had a lot of time away from my wife, and for me this song describes the loneliness I feel when I am away from my wife. Once when was on a 2 week R&R I had put this song on my iPod and my middle son who is also on Bagram Airbase with me and I we were just hanging out one night and I was playing the new songs I had down loaded. Let Her Go was one of them. I played it and he wanted to hear it again and without him saying so, I could tell how much this song made him miss his own lovely lady. I could just see it in his eyes. So while this song was inspired by a break up it's much larger than that. It's an anthem for anyone who misses their significant other when they are separated for any reason.
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