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Let Go
Words by Amity Dry, David Musumeci & Anthony Egizii
This song was written after all the others were already recorded, as I wanted to co-write a song with my two producers. I had wanted to write a song about letting go, as I truly feel nothing good comes in life until you let go of it. You can't really experience love until you let your guards down, you can't experience success until you risk failure, and if you think about it, when you try to hold on to things and control them, you're setting yourself up for a fall, because we don't really control anything in life. I came up with the idea of following one girl's life, from infancy to adulthood, and all the times she, and those around her, have to let go. I heard someone say once that having a child is like taking your heart out and putting arms and legs on it, and I thought that was such a great way of putting it. I loved the idea of a mother watching her child learn to walk, wanting so badly to protect her from falling, but knowing that it was the only way she would learn. I then used my own experience of moving away from home at just seventeen, and realising now how hard that must have been for my parents. But as much as I'm sure they wanted to keep me home and safe with them, they knew I had to go into the world and learn from my own experiences. Then in the last verse, when the girl is proposed to, she has to let go of her fears it might not work, as many marriages don't, and take a leap of faith to risk it all for love. In everything in life, we learn from our mistakes, and if we never let go enough to make any we never experience what life is really about.
First steps taken
To arms there waiting
To break her fall
Momma stops breathing
Every stumble she's feeling
Can't break them all
And she holds her close while she can
But she knows she can't always hold her hand
So she lets go
Laying her heart on the line
She knows that we all fall down sometimes
And its getting up that matters
And in learning that we grow
Taxi's waiting
Her dreams are taking her
Far from home
Daddy stands waving
His heart is aching
She's on her own
And he can't hold on to yesterday
But he'd hold her forever to keep her safe
Chorus
Down on bended knee
He asks her to be
His always
And she took his hand
Yeah she took a chance on fate
Chorus
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