Behind The Lyrics Of "Help Me Let You Go" Written By Klaude Walters
How Songs Often Come to Be Written
Songs often come to be written through an entirely spontaneous flow of inspiration that you can't really explain...at least, this is how it happens with my songs.
this song grabbed my heart from the minute it entered my head. I wrote it in my car as I was taking a drive to clear my mind. It was really a conversation I was having with my brother… somewhat meant as a prayer.
Verse 1
Help me to go on
Find the reason for this storm
How your feelings went away
And now there’s nothing left to say
Baby, help me let you go
How Grammar Rules Often Get Pushed Aside When Writing Songs
When you're writing songs, grammar is never at the forefront of your mind, feeling is. A songwriter will use slang or made up words sometimes to convey a certain feeling or imagery in the listener's mind. As a singer, you often have to use certain phrasings to convey that feeling that the songwriter wanted in that moment of the song. Songwriter isn't an exact science, it's more of an artistic work of art that comes in many forms and through many different channels. There is no "one true way" of writing songs. Every songwriter steps into it in a different way and from a different perspective but it all leads to beautiful music!
Verse 2
Help me understand
How life without you’s gonna be
When this emptiness inside me
Is all that I can feel
my brother passed away by suicide in 1996 and it shook me to the core. At the time I wrote this song, it was painful to live in a world without him. Emptiness was deep and it was, at times, completely overwhelming.
Pre-chorus
Help me make it through
To find a way out without you
To grow my wings again and fly
And soar way up in the sky
And leave all my tears behind
Chorus
I got no where left to hide
From all this pain I feel inside
And there’s no one I’d rather see
Then see you baby here beside me
And I feel such pain in my soul
To say this story has been told
Why can’t dreams ever come true
Why can’t I just stay with you
You gotta help me let you go
the song was meant as a plea to my brother to help me find a way to live without him and to survive his departure. The guilt and rawness I felt was overpowering on a daily basis so I wanted to find hope somewhere, a reason to go on and hope that I would survive losing him.
Verse 3
Help me to move on
To find my way back to my own
To bravely walk this road alone
And finally find my way back home
You gotta help me let you go
Verse 4
Help me understand
How life without you’s gonna be
When this emptiness inside me
Is all that I can feel
Pre-chorus
Help me find a way
To mend this broken heart again
To close my eyes and not to see
That baby you’re not here with me
You gotta help me let you go
Chorus
I got no where left to hide
From all this pain I feel inside
And there’s no one I’d rather see
Then see you baby here beside me
And I feel such pain in my soul
To say this story has been told
Why can’t dreams ever come true
Why can’t I just stay with you
You gotta help me let you go
Musical solo …through chorus until 3rd last line
Cause I can’t cry another tear
And I can’t wait another year
I guess I’ll have to let you go
after the song was written and recorded, I did feel a sense of relief that it no longer took space inside me…that it could live outside of my heart and heal other people who were going through some tough times. So many people asked me if they could use this song for videos of their lost ones and it made me happy that my song lived through all of these family memories. It made it purposeful.
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