Daniel Ahearn, 'I Will Let You Go'

Put your hands in the water

Watch them go under

Put your hands to the light

Watch the light come through

And I will let you go

And I will let you go

Put your time on the table

See who'll sit down with you

Give your love to the ones

Who offer you bruise

After bruise, after bruise

And I will let you go

And I will let you go

And I will let you go

How we play fight

As we dance slow

The smile you make

Saying yes meaning no

Is so grey, so faint

The words stray in your mouth

With an ache

I'm standing in water

With the light on my shoulder

The weight of the doubt

Turned me to glass

I'm through living in question

Dreaming the answers

No more paving the present

With pain from my past

~

What a beautiful song. I read somewhere in an article that he was playing the piano trying to figure out how to piece the lyrics to the melody and crying his heart out. I love this song because you can hear the pain echoing through his voice and the lyrics are vague and fleeting; giving you this sense that they really have this strange ability to capture any situation. It captures mine wholly and completely at the moment although I wish I had the courage to physically execute its message.