Song Description

Reconciled now that Chloe has gone, Lonnie longs to be released from the love that still holds him. It pains him and preoccupies him, but is also paradoxically still his main joy, bittersweet as it is. Walking through the woods one brisk April day, he comes to the old abandoned railroad tunnel where they used to play guitars, the cave-like interior lending an otherworldly reverberation to their voices and guitars. He walks part way in, remembering. Then he walks back out into the light, hopeful for some reason.

Lyrics

Nothing I say to you makes it untrue.
Let me go--I can't say how much I love you.

Taking it all away, I can't bear the day.
In the night I just see your face staring at me.
Let me go.

Seeing I don't know why, why you must try
to go far away now, climb mountains so high.

Every single day, I'm making my way.
I can't deal with you gone and I'm not okay.
Let me go.

I don't say you should not go--closing off the future before you can know.
I just can't get loose from your strings,
they're wrapped around my heart entangling all things.

I remember how we used to play, how we used to dance, how we used to run,
dissolving in the moonlight as if we were one.
And all those days, all those times, all those nights we held to each other,
held so tight as if we might lose the one thing we love.

And I think that I can't go on now,
without you I'm lost, I just don't know how.
Now the light has gone out of my life,
nothing ahead but torment and strife.
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