Let It Go (Commentary)

I've been trying so hard to be

A better version of me

I found that note I wrote

When I was twenty-one years old

I thought I'd figured it out

And I still don't know my fate

And maybe I'll never escape

I'm trying to let it go

Let it go

Let it go

Let it go

Let it go

Let it go

Let it go

I'm made of the

The ways of my mother

And the ideals of my father

And the spirit of my brother

And the strength of my lover

Well you can't control everything

There's no right way to do anything

And like a bird with a broken wing

I fall

And every time I think I've changed

It all comes back and I'm still the same

I'm trying to let it go...

Mama's got that tape of me

Dancing at twenty three

I still know the fear in those eyes

Waiting to be criticized

Not hearing the cheers

So every night I do my best

Turn the lights on, pass the test

Trying to let it go...

Why is it so hard to make a change?

Break all my patterns and rearrange

All I really want to be

Is all the people that I see

Who wait it out so patiently

So patiently

But I can barely breathe

I'm made of the stones of my hometown

Of all my friends who ain't around no more

And I every song that I sang

In every dive when it's raining out

Well you can't control everything

There's no right way to do anything

And so trying is the only thing

You can do

I'm trying to let it go

I'm trying to let it go

I'm trying to let it go

I'm trying to let it go