![]() ![]() What should you trust? Your brain? Your heart? One critique I have of this line is that it kind of suggests you can’t do both–but of course you can. It’s that ancient debate between logic and emotion, smarts vs. It suggests that favoring your mind above your heart will create a kind of weakness whereby “this world” can “leave you cold”. This seemingly simple line suggests more than it says. Line 2: “So this world can’t find a way to leave you cold” But the most wonderful and amazing messages in bottles came from the heart. The oldest messages in bottles were sent in the name of science. That is to say–the history of messages in bottles is: Intense emotion + science. ![]() So–right here, in this first line of the chorus, we have the entirety of the message in a bottle phenomenon captured. Observation (keeping your eyes open) is the basis, the bedrock of all science. But in the very same line, we are encouraged to keep our “eyes wide open,” which is really a scientific thing to say. The father’s “message in a bottle” begins by urging us–and his son, of course–to lead with the heart. That’s right–we’re going line by line on this bad boy! Line 1: “You keep your heart above your head and your eyes wide open”Ī lovely line, don’t you think? And, at the same time that it’s highly figurative, it’s also totally understandable. And you better strap in, friends, cause thangs are about to get reeeeal figurative up in here. Because it performs a simple function: It sets up the chorus in which we receive some mothaflippin’ wisdom from the main character’s father. So… Does the end of the first verse “make sense”? No. If you focus too hard on any one stroke–any individual line–you’re going to miss out on the greater image. Here’s the thing about this song: You have to think of it like a painting. It’s the final line of the first verse that is really surprising–it suggests that the bottle of whiskey being drunk by these two old friends was cast into the ocean years before by the main character’s father. They’re playing guitar and talking about the good old days and getting wonderfully plastered.īut suddenly, we realize that the character in this song is in the midst of discovering a “truth inside that bottle”. In the first verse, we are immediately transported into an intimate, drunken night between two old friends. “Spent the night with a friend of mine and a handle of good whiskeyĬast a-sea so long ago was a message from my father.” What is Zac Brown Band’s “Let it Go” About? ![]() Looking back now on my life I can’t say I regret itĪnd all the places that I ended up not the way Ma woulda had itīut you only get one chance at life to leave your mark upon itĪnd when a pony he comes riding by you better set your sweet ass on itĪnd like the fear that grabs ahold ya let it go Save your strength for things that you can change So this world can’t find a way to leave you coldĪnd know you’re not the only ship out on the ocean You keep your heart above your head and your eyes wide open We picked guitars and talked about how the glory days we missed ’emĪnd it didn’t take too long to find the truth inside that bottleĬast a-sea so long ago was a message from my father. ![]() Spent the night with a friend of mine and a handle of good whiskey Zac Brown Band Let it Go Lyrics and Meaning with Video This song is not cryptic in the way of Sting’s song, “Message in a Bottle.” This song delivers a more folksy, straight-to-the-point kind of message.įirst, let’s check out the song. It forms the chorus of the song, and it seeks to impart a lesson. In this song, the message in a bottle really is a “message”. Photo by Sgt.1st Class Chuck Burden, retrieved through Wikipedia. ![]()
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