Letting you go
Dark pop / classical crossover song. Deep female contralto / low alto voice, very steady and monotone, minimal melodic movement, full and rich. Lyrics fully sung, no spoken-word. Tempo moderate, grounded, flowing. Instrumentation: double bass as primary anchor with sustained drones, cello as harmonic/texture layer (not melodic, subtle shifts), subtle dark analog pad for atmosphere. Voice and instruments equally present, immersive and layered, serious, mythic, non-minimalistic, no piano, no percussion. Arrangement dynamic: instruments actively shape mood around the voice, creating weight, depth, and space.
Letting you go
Dark pop / classical crossover song. Deep female contralto / low alto voice, very steady and monotone, minimal melodic movement, full and rich. Lyrics fully sung, no spoken-word. Tempo moderate, grounded, flowing. Instrumentation: double bass as primary anchor with sustained drones, cello as harmonic/texture layer (not melodic, subtle shifts), subtle dark analog pad for atmosphere. Voice and instruments equally present, immersive and layered, serious, mythic, non-minimalistic, no piano, no percussion. Arrangement dynamic: instruments actively shape mood around the voice, creating weight, depth, and space.
Lyrics
Verse 1
After three and a half years
I am letting you go.
It’s actually been twenty years
Up and down
And I really can’t anymore.
I stood in the middle of the storm
Calling endurance love
Calling habit hope
But even stone wears down
When it carries too much weight
Pre-Chorus
I learned how to stay
Long after staying stopped being living
I learned how to smile
With my hands already empty
Chorus
You have to tie me loose
Because I really am letting go.
I already left long ago,
My spirit left even longer ago.
I need to move on.
I can’t keep the baggage of you with me.
Tie me loose.
Not in anger.
Not in blame.
Just enough
For truth to breathe.
Verse 2
I need a fresh start.
I need to breathe.
Not borrowed air
Not permission
Not survival measured in silence
Stop tying me to you
And keeping me in shackles.
Love should not sound like chains
Or echo like a locked room
Pre-Chorus 2
I am not breaking
I am untying
There is a difference
I am not running
I am standing
In my own name
Chorus
You have to tie me loose
Because I really am letting go.
I already left long ago,
My spirit left even longer ago.
I need to move on.
I can’t keep the baggage of you with me.
Tie me loose.
Let the knots remember
What my hands have forgotten.
Bridge
You can’t cage a bird
That needs to be free and fly
And who needs to sing
And be happy.
You can’t call the sky betrayal
Just because it won’t stay indoors.
Final Chorus / Outro
I need a fresh start.
I need to breathe.
Not away from you—
Toward myself.
Tie me loose.
I am letting go.
Not falling.
Not fading.
Just opening my wings
To the sound
Of my own voice again.