Let Go

(Low drone, breath rhythm, spacious handpan notes)

You’ve been carrying fire in your hands so long

You forgot what it burns

I’ve been standing where the river runs

Watching it never return

Every word they said still echoes on

But it’s only my echo that returns

And I stand at the edge of something clean

Afraid of what it might learn

Every scar keeps calling my name

Like it’s something I owe

But the current keeps moving just out of reach

Where I don’t want to go

And the voice in my head keeps score at night

Every wrong, every shame

But the water just keeps moving on

It doesn’t know my name

Let it go… let it fall like rain

You don’t have to wear that pain

Let it go… set it down, release

There’s no healing without peace

Let it go… like a river wide

Pulling everything I hide

Let it go… let it finally flow

I’ve been standing here too long… I know

There’s a river I’ve been walking beside

But I never step in

Just tracing the edge of a life I could have

If I let the old one end

Every stone in my pocket’s a name

Every name pulls me down

But the water keeps calling me closer now

Says I don’t have to drown

What if I loosen my grip just enough

To feel it slip away?

What if the weight I’ve been carrying

Was mine to drop today?

Open hands…

Open hands…

I release what I can’t remake

I release what I can’t undo

I release every word that broke me

I release what I tied to you

Let it move…

Let it move…

Like water through broken stone

Like silence through bone

Like something I thought was mine

Finally finding its own

Let it go… let it wash me clean

I’ve been standing in between

Let it go… like a river strong

Carrying me all along

Let it go… I don’t need to stay

At the edge of yesterday

Let it go… let it pull me through

I was never meant to hold on to you

I step into the river now…

It remembers me…

It remembers me…

And I finally let it go…