Let Us Go

Kilbey/Koppes/Powles/Haug

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Some background info on the song, from Under the Radar, Mar 31, 2016 (by Aug Stone):

"'Let Us Go' is a pretty standard Church pop song," considers frontman Steve Kilbey. "I never really gave it a lot of thought but then a friend of mine asked 'can I do a video for a song off 'Further/Deeper'?' I was surprised when he chose that one and now the song's become a little something extra. This friend filmed us rehearsing one night in Melbourne and went away and doctored it up. He'd been to South America taking ayahuasca and wanted something of that feeling for the video, that's why it's kaleidoscopic and with all the amoebas."

"Tim (Powles, Church drummer & producer) had some words that he'd written for another song that hadn't fit in so we incorporated his words into what I was writing. Then he chopped up my words and made me sing them another way around for the verse. That's something else I don't do very often - sing somebody else's words in a song. But I really liked what he had written. And I really believe you can put anything anywhere in music if luck is with you. And as luck would have it, the lyrics I didn't think were very good for this other song were perfect for this song and gave a great other aspect to it. It was serendipitous."

Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Oct. 23, 2014]

See the baby walking through the sleet
A monster moves in the violent sea
Go, I let that go

The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaporate, dust in space
The music fades, no accolades
No, that's a snow

If you touch us we'll disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
If you listen, please just let us know
Please let us go

If you touch us we disappear
If you're waiting we're never here
Oh, let it grow

See a baby walking through the sleet
A monster moves in the violent sea
She's the one with the wild white feet
She's the one with the moon and star
No, I let that go

The tightrope breaks, the magic's gone
Nothing matters, we're falling stars
Evaluate, does this taste so good
No, please, let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go
Let us go (Please let us go) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go (Please) (No please don't let us go)
Let us go