Let Her Go
| Let Her Go | |
|---|---|
| Passenger | |
| publication | February 24, 2012 |
| length | 4:13 minutes |
| Genre (s) | Folk , pop |
| Author (s) | Mike Rosenberg |
| text | Mike Rosenberg |
| Label | Embassy of Music , Sony Music |
| album | All the little lights |
Let Her Go is a song by the British singer-songwriter Passenger .
history
The song was released on the album All the Little Lights in February 2012 . Through concerts alone and without support from broadcasting on radio or television, the album reached ninth place in the charts in Australia in March 2012. Let Her Go , which was released as a single, reached the top of the charts in Australia. Six months later, the song spilled over to Europe when it was broadcast on Dutch radio, and from October 2012 it was able to stay on the charts in the Netherlands for 24 weeks and make it to the top. The song can be heard in the film Fack Ju Göhte .
content
The refrain is central : “And you let her go.” The lyrics , which are based around this central statement, describe the emotional state during the phase of a separation in a relationship with a woman. The author couldn't bond with her. He was not ready to indulge this love, and by letting it go, he realized that it had become a true love. In his depressed mood, his dejection, he realized with closed eyes that this love developed slowly and quickly passed, "'Cause love comes slow, and it goes so fast." The song describes the inner dialectic of closeness and distance, of love and separation or separation pain. "'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low; Only miss the sun when it starts to snow; Only know you love her when you let her go. ”As long as he lived the relationship, he could not see and enjoy its value. So that his summary : “Only know you love her when you let her go; And you let her go ”, describes how you only know your love when you let it go.
reception
Steffen Rüth from the Mainpost classifies the “small, friendly, melancholy folk-pop song” stylistically somewhere “between Ed Sheeran and James Blunt ”. The Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation covered the song for the special edition of their album Hydra .
Charts
Let Her Go reached in Germany the chart peak in the singles charts and placed five weeks at this very well as twelve weeks in the Top 10 and 60 weeks in the charts. In the German airplay charts , the single also reached the top position for two weeks and ultimately also made it to the top of the annual charts, making Let Her Go the most-played radio hit in 2013. The song reached the top position in the single charts in numerous other countries, including Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Sweden and the Czech Republic.
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
1 (60 weeks) | 60 |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
1 (38 weeks) | 38 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
1 (88 weeks) | 88 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
2 (84 weeks) | 84 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
5 (43 weeks) | 43 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ All the Little Lights - Passenger: Songs, Credits, Reviews, Awards: Allmusic. In: allmusic.com. Rovi Corp., accessed April 28, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Steffen Rüth: Passenger: From street musician to chart topper. In: mainpost.de. April 9, 2013, accessed April 28, 2013 .
- ↑ australian-charts.com - Passenger - All the Little Lights. In: australian-charts.com. Hung Medien, accessed April 28, 2013 .
- ↑ australian-charts.com - Passenger - Let Her Go. In: australian-charts.com. Hung Medien, accessed April 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Top 40: passenger - let her go. In: top40.nl. Retrieved April 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Hydra - Within Temptation ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Airplay Charts Germany: Week 12/2013. germancharts.de, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Annual charts Germany: Chart year 2013. radiocharts.com, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US AU BE (Vl) BE (Wa) DK ES
