Let Her Go (Passenger)

You know there are songs that can be put on your media player track list just on their own – when you click the  ‘repeat’ button and can spend quite a while with that music playing there in your ears for many times on end. Normally it’s not the classics (oh, forgive me, my favourite genre!), as classical music requires your full concentration if you want to perceive it to the maximum (imho). Most often those are rather pop or light rock kind of songs, neither too intrusive not too frivolous.

photo by Murad Osmann

So today is one of those days when I’m good with one of those ‘endless’ songs on my playlist. And today it’s “Let Her Go” by Passenger, a folk-rock-indie-pop piece. I chose the acoustic version and it goes in perfectly. I did like Michael Rosenberg’s (Passenger) work for both its melodic line and ‘non-empty’ lyrics. So besides enjoying the soft flowing guitar music I love to think about the depth of the things he’s touching in the song itself. So often do we have to lose something/someone, which is very much regretted later but is never to be returned. From such simple examples as missing sun in winter or missing home when on the road, Michael goes to the main point: we learn to appreciate and know Love when we let her go.

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Only know you love her when you let her go

Good lyrics, amazing music, pleasant work. No wonder “Let Her Go” topped the charts of many countries in 2013 and was nominated for Brit Awards 2014 as British Single of the Year. Enjoy the song and take care of your loved ones!