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  1. Tracks
  2. Pretenders
  3. Relentless
  4. Just Let It Go

TRACK

Pretenders

Just Let It Go

Release date: 15th September 2023

From Relentless
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About This Track

"Just Let It Go" is a track by Pretenders, from the album Relentless, released 15th September 2023. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Just Let It Go

How many years? A twenty or more

Dedicated was I, indebted, indentured

Repairing the roof, washing the floor

I dreamt of the world, but I never ventured

Chains round my ankles, locks on the door

The shackles that bound me don't anymore

In the end, I let it go

Maybe it's best just to let it go

Was I even good at this? I'm not even sure

I just did the job and kept my head down

I fooled myself thinking that my aims were purе

A full veil covered thе face of a clown

Hooked up to a plough, I tilled the earth

I buried a few and to some I gave birth

In the end, I let it go

Maybe it's best just to let it go

Our changes came fast, but the torments were slow

Let it go, let it go

A person, a gender, a human soul

What kind of career means a life in a cage?

One day I could hear a distant bell toll

Without emotion, no joy or rage

I took just enough to see me well gone

My tiny space vacant, I'd left before dawn

Oh, in the end, I let it go

Maybe it's best just to let it go

Our changes were fast, but the torments were slow

Let it go, let it go

I let it go, let it go

Let it go, let it go

Let it go, let it go

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Track details

From Relentless

2023
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Album
Relentless
Relentless
Pretenders
Release year
2023
  1. —The Promise of Love
  2. —Just Let It Go
  3. —Look Away
  4. —Merry Widow
  5. —Your House Is On Fire
  6. —Losing My Sense of Taste
  7. —The Copa
  8. —Vainglorious
  9. —I Think About You Daily
  10. —Domestic Silence

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