Artist: Gary Barlow

Songwriter: Gary Barlow

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A week before the pop group Take That was due to perform at the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony, Gary and his family announced the loss of his daughter Poppy, who was stillborn.  Let Me Go is written from her perspective.

Barlow revealed in a TV documentary that Let Me Go was written about the loss of his stillborn daughter Poppy and the traumatic period in his life which left him and wife Dawn devastated.  He said that the song keeps Poppy's "flame" alive and is a "celebration" of her.

A room full of sadness
A broken heart
And only me to blame
For every single part
No science or religion
Could make this whole
To be loved but never loved
To have but never hold

It's a life alone, and a desperate need
To be held, to be loved so
This is gonna take a bit of getting used to
But I know what's right for you

Fly high and let me go
That sky will save your soul
When you pass by then you'll know
That this gonna take a bit of getting used to
But I know what's right for you
Let me go

A head full of madness
And nowhere safe
When tears aren't big enough
And love turns into hate

It's a life alone, and a desperate need
To be held, to be loved so
This gonna take a bit of getting used to
But I know what's right for you

Fly high and let me go
That sky will save your soul
When you pass by then you'll know
That this gonna take a bit of getting used to
But I know what's right for you

So let me go life will get better
Find the love I never gave ya
I know you lie there waiting all night long
So find where you belong

Fly high and let me go (let me go)
That sky will save your soul (let it save your soul tonight)
Fly high and let me go (let me go, let me go)
That sky will save your soul
But this gonna take a bit of getting used to
But I know what's right for you
Let me go