Let Her Go

Staring at the bottom of your glass Hoping one day you'll make a dream last But dreams come slow and they go so fast You see her when you close your eyes Maybe one day you'll understand why Everything you touch surely dies Staring at the ceiling in the dark Same old empty feeling in your heart 'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast Well you see her when you fall asleep But never to touch and never to keep 'Cause you loved her too much and you dived too deep

But you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go Only know you've been high when you're feeling low Only hate the road when you're missing home Only know you love her when you let her go And you let her go...

TPCASTT

Title - "Let Her Go" first seems to be a command

Paraphrase - The subject of the poem has been drinking and thinking about a girl that he loved intensely and then lost.

Connotation - The reader can gather from the lyrics that the subject was drinking. The line "Everything you touch surely dies" can be interpreted that the subject has had a bad track record of relationships, not that he literally kills everything he touches.

Attitude - The lyrics are upsetting and written to make the reader think.

Shifts - The mood does not shift but the structure changes as the last stanza begins.

Title - After reading the poem, the title means that the subject has already let her go instead of being a command.

Theme - You don't know what you have until you lose it.