The Art of Letting Go - Mariah Carey

by Benjamin O'Loughlin 

Meaning: When you've already been around the block a few times, even letting go of your mistakes is hard... but if you don't, you'll never take your life to a better place...

Music Video: Still waiting...

My Take: In an interview, Mariah explained that Letting Go isn't about any one problem in particular. She wants each listener to plug in their own problems and struggles. My take? Letting go is never easy: every bad decision you make leaves its mark. And cleaning those marks off isn't always easy. Letting go - especially when you're not sure you even want to - is long and hard. But if you want to take your life to a better place, you can't leave them there. You can't let them keep being part of your life. Letting go of the bad - forever - is the only way to make a grab for the good.

Full interview here.

Ask Yourself: What are you still holding on to? Why haven't you been able to let go yet?

LYRICS:

I'm making a statement of my own opinion

Just a brief little reminder to help myself remember

I no longer live in your dominion (no, no, no, ooh)

You're just trifling, nothing more than a liability

Gotta lay all your possessions

Outside the kitchen window right now

Letting go, letting go ain't easy

Oh, it's just exceedingly hurtful

'Cause somebody you used to know

It's flinging your world around

And they watch, as you're falling down, down, down

Falling down, baby

Evidently your words were merely lies

Reverberating in my ears

And the echo won't subside

There's a deep deep loss of hope

And the anger burns in me

I hope you don't get no ideas 'bout re-uniting baby

'Cause that's the last thing I truly need

Your audacity is too much to be believed, so

Go to MiMi on your contacts, press delete

Letting go ain't easy

Oh, it's just exceedingly hurtful

'Cause somebody you used to know

Is flinging your world around

And they watch, as you're falling down, down

Down, down

Baby letting go, baby letting go

Ain't easy, easy

Baby letting go, baby letting go (woah)

Ain't easy,

Ain't easy

Baby letting go, it ain't easy

'Cause somebody you used to know

It's flinging your world around

And you know what?

They watch as you're falling, as you're falling

Down

Fall

It ain't easy baby