I Let it Go

I think this is about losing love and hating the idea of being in love, then realizing that you need love. Losing love makes you feel "lost" and "hurt," and like you're "swimming in circles of circles in the last place (you) wanted to be," or not being able to escape the lost and lonesome feelings. You thought love was keeping you up, but then came to believe that it was strangling you, relating it to death, as the opposite of live in "love or live".

"I walked in the dark..." is about being lost without love and feeling hatred. Then you realize that the hate was only hurting you, and you have to learn to let the hate go, realizing that you actually do need love, this time relating it to life.

I think its about how we hold on to things that we think are intrinsic to our identities but that really just do us harm, so finally we just have to learn to let them go. Like love and hate.

Great song. This seems to me to be about clinging to a love that is not returned, i.e. ex-girlfriend, and about finally getting to the point of letting it go. There are lines about finally seeing the destructive nature of hanging on or nursing certain emotions, realizing that it is drowning you, strangling you and hurting you. Perfect song to tell yourself, 'I don't need that bitch. She screwed me over anyway. Fuck her.'

This is just my interpretation of it. But, to me, it's about being in a stagnant relationship in which the speaker of the song is incredibly unhappy, but they've been staying in it in hopes that things will eventually get better. Finally, he looks his fear in the face and leaves his miserably life of comfort to find happiness again. Finding happiness within yourself before finding it with another person, then being with someone you can actively love.