This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
There's nothing left
Nothing left to hold onto
There is no reason for me to fight anymore
I let it all go
It'll be easier I know
The weight on my shoulders tells me so
So now I stand here
To sing another song for you
About the pain I've felt before
When there was nothing I could do
Now I stand here
With nothing left to say to you
And if you all could sing along
It might help me make it through
I try to move on
Nothing left to hurt me now
I hope it's all in the past to stay
Just try to see through
All the fucked up shit we do
And hope that we all don't drift away
So now I stand here
To sing another song for you
About the pain I've felt before
When there was nothing I could do
So now I stand here
With nothing left to say to you
And if you all could sing along
It might help me make it through
So let it all out
Nothing left to hold onto
There is no reason for me to fight anymore
I let it all go
Feels so much better, now I know
The weight on my shoulders tells me so
So now I stand here
To sing another song for you
About the pain I've felt before
When there was nothing I could do
So now I stand here
With nothing left to say to you
And if you all could sing along
It might help me make it through
There's nothing left
None of it's worth holding onto
There is no reason for you to fight anymore
Nothing left to hold onto
There is no reason for me to fight anymore
I let it all go
It'll be easier I know
The weight on my shoulders tells me so
So now I stand here
To sing another song for you
About the pain I've felt before
When there was nothing I could do
Now I stand here
With nothing left to say to you
And if you all could sing along
It might help me make it through
I try to move on
Nothing left to hurt me now
I hope it's all in the past to stay
Just try to see through
All the fucked up shit we do
And hope that we all don't drift away
So now I stand here
To sing another song for you
About the pain I've felt before
When there was nothing I could do
So now I stand here
With nothing left to say to you
And if you all could sing along
It might help me make it through
So let it all out
Nothing left to hold onto
There is no reason for me to fight anymore
I let it all go
Feels so much better, now I know
The weight on my shoulders tells me so
So now I stand here
To sing another song for you
About the pain I've felt before
When there was nothing I could do
So now I stand here
With nothing left to say to you
And if you all could sing along
It might help me make it through
There's nothing left
None of it's worth holding onto
There is no reason for you to fight anymore
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28
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where can i get this song?
Mm. Lovely. A bonustrack on the 14 Shades Of Grey dvd. And actually I think, that this one song, which isn't on the album, is the most beautiful of all the "new" songs..
you werent joking, this song is absolutely beautiful, comparable to Epiphany even. i hope this song is on their next album just so more people will hear it.
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This song is with the Limited Edition Chapter V CD/DVD. Amazing song, one of the best new ones they have had with Aaron mostly acoustic. Right up there almost past Outside.
Where can I download this song. Ive been trying to look for it on LimeWire, but I cant find it on There.
I just bought the CD/DVD of Chapter V. This song is amazing. The melody and harmonics are just beautiful. This song was the main reason I bought the CD/DVD. I already have CD of Chapter V, but it was worth getting again just to have this song. AMAZING.
Let it Out is a true Master Piece. This song is percieve able in 2 very polar ways. The Literal message of the song is basically Aaron Lewis's life has turned so much and he doesn't need to hold on to his sorrow and past any more. He knows by letting it go he'll be better off. However he Knows that there are Fans who expect his music to be "Darker" and more consistent with lyrics of the past. But he knows that He doesn't have that Sorrow, that never dying conflict, so theres not as much left to speak about to his audience. He believes that if you join in this feeling you'll make it through as well.
however me personally the way i relate to this song is a feelin of hopelessness in light. Theres no point in holding on to an Existanec that isn't going any where. I've announced and spoken about my issues for so long that i cant say anything New. Theres nothing in the world left to comfort me and to "fight" over. and to me Let it out is basically a relation to being better off in Death than in life. BUT thats jyst MY percieving of it. remeber Aaron Lewis doesn't condone Suicide. cough waste cough
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