(Low drone, breath rhythm, spacious handpan notes)
[Verse 1 (seed the image)]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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?
[Bridge (ritual / chant)]
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
[Final Chorus (return + completion of motif)]
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
[Outro (full-circle closure)]
I step into the river now…
It remembers me…
It remembers me…
And I finally let it go…