Passenger-Let Her Go lyrics Meaning

[Intro-Chorus]
Well 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
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

Only know what you have when its gone. you don’t notice things when you have them.

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You never know what you have until you lose it. It would make you regret things later on when you take something for granted or never even give importance to it. Because once you lose something, it’ll never be yours again. And when you do, it won’t be the same way it was before when you still had it.

[Verse 1]
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you’ll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you’ll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies

But it’s to late to do anything because he let her go without telling her how much he loved her and how much she meant to him. We take things for granted most of the time and never realize how much pain we cause to the people that loves us and we love.

[Chorus]
But 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
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go

Passenger-Let her go lyrics meaning 

 

[Verse 2]
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
‘Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
‘Cause you loved her too much and you dive too deep

Staring at the ceiling when It’s dark you’ll only be sinking in darkness I. E more like wishing like you could see something you want/love but it’s nowhere to be found and loneliness thickens the more you think about it.

[Chorus]
Well 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
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go

You only appreciate things when they are gone. You only want stuff if you don’t have them.

[Bridge]
And you let her go
Oh oh oh oooh no
And you let her go
Oh oh oh oooh no
Well you let her go

[Chorus]
‘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
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go

It tries to describe what you need and when you need it most, like when you have the light on when it is burning high, you hardly need it, but you need it when it is burning low, because it is dark, but you hardly need it when it is light outside. ” Only need the light when it is burning low “, is what I am describing.
Another example is: only miss the sun when it starts to snow. This means miss the summer when it is winter because it is cold outside in winter, but hot outside in summer to defrost us. Same thing backwards, only miss the winter when it is summer because it is hot outside in summer, and it is cold outside it winter to cool us down. So think of summer when it is winter, and think of winter when it is summer.

[Outro-Chorus]
Because 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
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

You will only really understand how much you love someone until you have lost someone. and he let her go, so now he understands how much she means to him.