Let Me Go Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You're the lump in my throat
You're the reason I choke
On the words that I wish I had said
You're the feeling of home
Smell of smoke on my coat
Miss you over, and over again

[Pre-Chorus]
Everybody says I'll survive, I'll be fine
But they don't know what it's like

[Chorus]
If it doesn't wake you up
In a violent sweat and steal your breath
If it doesn't make a cut
That just won't close, it wasn't love
So let me go

[Verse 2]
Did you learn how to drive?
Are you somewhere tonight
With someone tryna paint over me?
Oh, it hurts but it should
It hurts but it's good
'Causе the best kinda love scars' deep
[Chorus]
If it doеsn't wake you up
In a violent sweat and steal your breath
If it doesn't make a cut
That just won't close, it wasn't love
So let me go

[Post-Chorus]
Oh, oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh
So let me go
Oh, oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh
So let me go

[Pre-Chorus]
I'll survive, I'll be fine
But they don't know what it's like

[Chorus]
If it doesn't wake you up
In a violent sweat and steal your breath
If it doesn't make a cut
That just won't close, it wasn't love
So let me go
[Post-Chorus]
Oh, oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh
So let me go
Oh, oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh
So let me go

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Genius Annotation

In a June 2022 interview on the Zach Sang Show, Benson Boone revealed making “Let Me Go” on his second day in Los Angeles during an writing session trip:

The next day, I wrote another one of my best songs, that I haven’t released it will becoming out in July it’s called, “Let Me Go.”

Boone first teased the song on TikTok in May 2021 with the original title lyric being: “Let Her Go.”

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