Letting Go

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Sarah Green

"**Letting Go**" is the lead track for Lupe Fiasco's third studio album, *Lasers* (2011). It features guest vocals from Sarah Green and samples Public Enemy's "Public Enemy No. 1".

Fiasco informed *Chicago Tribune*, "It's my declaration of independence from the clutches of the record industry, the blogs, the fans, the press, the lifestyle. It's me hanging over the side of a building. Remember in the “Juice” movie, the scene where Tupac is being held over the side of a building? I envisioned that in this song. There is a part of me that has been lost because of all this. I lost a damaged piece of me. And I got the rest of me back. We were performing parts of the record that the label was saying were not a hit, yet on stage people were hearing these songs and would go crazy in reaction to them. It made me realize that somebody is not telling the truth, and that things were going to be OK."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]

Things are getting outta control

Feels like I'm running out of soul

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

You are getting heavy to hold

Think I'll be letting you go

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured

Self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit

A shelf full of awards

Worshiping the warships that set sail on my sea of life

When I see my old self I wonder if we still see alike

We was tight seeing lights, speaking right and breathing life

Now I see my demons and barely even sleep at night

I don't get high, life keep me at a decent height

As the old me I predicted all my recent plights

Exhausted, trying to fall asleep, lost inside my recent fights

Burdens on my shoulders now, burnin' all my motives down

Inspiration drying up, motivation slowing down

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]

Things are getting outta control

Feels like I'm running out of soul

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

You are getting heavy to hold

Think I'll be letting you go

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

I'm begging me don't let me go, we vow like the letter "O"

To never go our separate ways and spin-off into separate shows

Tired of all the wardrobe changin', playing all these extra roles

Filled with all these different spirits, livin' off these separate souls

Point in life is getting hollow, can't wait for the exit hole

Give me room the entry wound, let me in and let me go

So I can roam around this wilderness

See it for what it really is, unprepared and filterless

Magnify the youth in me, alibi the shootin' spree

Amplify the revolution, sanitize the lunacy

Strip away the justice, justify the scrutiny

I can see the lasers, shootin' out of you and me

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]

Things are getting outta control

Feels like I'm running out of soul

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

You are getting heavy to hold

Think I'll be letting you go

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

[Bridge: Lupe Fiasco]

Sometimes I feel like the world—

Sometimes I feel like the world

Is against me

And everything that I've done before

I swear we used to be so pure

But we can't be in love no more

'Cause I don't wanna fight this war

But when I put down my gun

I turn around and pick up one

This Uzi weighs a ton

But I think I'm done

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]

Things are getting outta control

Feels like I'm running out of soul

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

You are getting heavy to hold

Think I'll be letting you go

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

Oh-woah-oh-oh, oh-woah-oh-oh

[Outro: Sarah Green]

Think I'll be letting you go

Things are getting outta control

Said, it feels like I'm running out of soul

You're getting heavy to hold

I think I'll be letting you go

Letting you go

## References

1. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco discusses the making of 'L.A.S.E.R.S.': 'It was destroying me'". *Chicago Tribune*. March 1, 2011. Archive from the original on March 5, 2011.