In Let Go, FARRELLY tackles bitter feelings due to a heartbreak or loss, and he writes about the inner process of letting go using direct and straightforward language. In this song, he is confronting the problem of being a man trying to release his grip on a somebody or something from his past life but is unable to do so. The song is filled with a feeling of repetition and inner turmoil, and it reveals a battle with letting go entirely of feelings, memory, and attachment.

FARRELLY sets a sombre tone immediately, mentioning fear and sorrow in the world. Mentioning putting aside tears and having a beer is a desperate act of pushing pain into the background or else redirecting attention away from it. Employing language is a human’s characteristic act—to find a few habits or rituals so deeper emotions are avoided. Even there’s a touch of irony with which it’s being attempted. The pain is indeed present, and even the artist who’s being mentioned didn’t know who he is, reflecting just how unidimensional or generalized the emotional experience could become.

The repeated use of, “won’t you ever let go,” is the main theme of the song. FARRELLY repeats the line for a chorus, and redundancy serves an emotional pattern that an artist is stuck within. The desire for resolution is there, yet never achieved. Contrast within, “you try to let go, but you don’t let go” only serves to highlight inner tensions. Not because you’re not even trying—after all, it’s only that feelings are so intense or unresolved that simply fade away. The pattern is a circle, a thought that simply refuses to get out of a head, demonstrating for you just how hard it is for things truly to be over with someone.

FARRELLY sets a scene with the other individual during the song. The image of somebody emerging from the evening and resting her head against him is a picture of intimacy, yet since her “shame” has been disregarded, there is a sense of confusion or emotional distance, too. The artist is trying to find out when it all started going wrong, when and how. These are imprecise lyrics, with no concrete answer, and that sense of helplessness is what is being communicated. When there is just nothing left there any longer to blame, FARRELLY captures that gentle, heartbreaking epiphany.

Later, during the song, landscape gives way into a dry, vacant landscape. The line of expressing that there is emptiness in the space illustrates that loss has left a void inside and a space, a vacant, physical and emotional space. There is yearning, reminiscing, staring into that emptiness, yet there is no comfort. The choice of using “stare” and “heave” is a mix of desire and confusion, for what there used to be, yet is now no longer within his possession.

The final couplet sees out the sorrow. That “we could have been someone” now is “all undone” is a phrase that exudes regret and disillusion. FARRELLY is mourning loss, not only of a relationship, but loss of potential—a future unrealised. Plain language makes it all the more effective. Far from a grand finale, there is only a stark acknowledgment that things will never be the same again. Throughout all of it, FARRELLY remains frank and uncomplicated. Let Go‘s vocals represent all of us who have ever attempted and struggled with letting go of someone. It is a song that does not mince matters with regard to the hard truth that at times, letting go comes so slowly than even we wish.