by So it HIT ME! When I clicked the schedule button to post The Challenge of Letting Go, I realized the PERFECT title track for that ramble is Let Go by BTS, one of the tracks on their Face Yourself album. The Let Go lyrics by BTS reflect learning to let go of things (people, work, thoughts, etc.) when warranted, just like in my post.
Now, it totally makes perfect sense why I would always cry during Let Go, why I’d always belt out the chorus with a trembling voice. It’s because I’ve always had a hard time letting go. Although the lyrics are in Japanese, the sentiment is the same and the resonance is overwhelming.
“I gotta let you know that I need to let you go
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Hard to say goodbye
But I won’t run away
I’m ready to let go”
The Let Go by BTS acknowledges how difficult it is to let go but there’s the determination to face it. The clear resolve in the lyrics would always make me tear up because I didn’t have that same resolve, but I desperately wanted it. I wanted to move past the pain of letting go and live with that decision comfortably, without regret.
If I had to make the decision to let go, my spirit would fight it. My mind play fear tactics; it would give me reasons why I should stay:
“Where and what are you doing now
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Who is on your mind while we’re far apart
Living without you is already unbelievable”
My body just understood the depression and anxiety I’d experience and would try to avoid it, almost like self-preservation.
As I eluded to in my previous post, letting go is way more complex than mere action. It’s the thought, emotion, planning, and uncertainty of the future. The person with the lyrics of Let Go by BTS is thinking of what to say, what to write, and of their emotions. It isn’t an easy hurdle to just condense to, “I let it go,” or “I walked away.” There’s a void- a separate path that you will always remember and have to come to terms with. If you think of the stages of grief, how tumultuous it is, that’s all the effort and energy one has to make towards letting go of something.
And the Let Go lyrics allude to the possibility that the main character’s mindset may never be the same, which is true! You are guided and transformed by your experiences and decisions made within those moments. You won’t be as innocent or naive as before, perhaps even jaded, and the prospect of losing that joy is scary. This thought is deceptive because there’s nothing to say the future won’t be good.
And the anxiety! I’m always in my head, dissecting things, analyzing what could be, can I just return to what was, and this person in the Let Go lyrics by BTS does THE SAME!
“But I’m unable to forget
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It’s burned into my mind like a tattoo
We can’t return to that time, huh”
And reminders of what was left behind are difficult to ignore, especially while grieving.
“The color of the sky that we both watched
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The scent of the path we both were on
Don’t forget them”
This song is stellar and also bittersweet because I immediately understood the emotions behind the melody. There’s not a single person alive that can’t relate to having to let go and the grief that comes with it. It’s such a hard fight. It’s impressive that BTS, yet again, created such a beautiful and relatable song. It’s almost comforting: the acknowledgment of these shared feelings. It shows we’re not alone.
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