You know how most 80's videos just didn't get it? Well, this one is one of those fantasy type 80's videos that actually works. While the song is dated, and feels 80's... I must once again point you back to the words which drive the song.
So few songs wrap themselves up in a bow at the end. This one is one of them. Shot in black and white, you feel the desperation and acceptance of a love never to be had again. I think that is what always hit home with me when I listened to this song as a boy.
With words like, "our souls are locked and frozen" hit hard. But no words hit quite as hard as:
Once we were years ahead but now those thoughts are dead let me go!
All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me let me go!
I walk alone and yet I never say goodbye let me go!
A change of heart a change of mind and heaven fell that night let me go!
On a musical plane, Let Me Go! was a standard setter like Human League's Don't You Want Me and Soft Cell's, Tainted Love, yet Let Me Go! never had the same impact stateside. No bother to me, most American's were too hung up on image and metal pop. If you didn't rock you were a disco fool. My peers were very dim when it came to accepting so much great music in every style it came.
It was the time in my life when God was driving me every thought. I was young and carnal, but I was tormented by my Christian ethics. For all that torment I must say, they were in fact the best years of our lives. We had the world in our hands. I had a girl whom I dated for years. She was my soul mate as my friends would often offer. One day we too came to a romantic close. This song kept my memory of her alive for years. Alas now I've turned the last card down.
Once there was a day
We were together all the way
An endless path unbroken
But now there is a time
A torture less sublime
Our souls are locked and frozen...
Once we were years ahead but now those thoughts are dead let me go!
All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me let me go!
I walk alone and yet I never say goodbye let me go!
A change of heart a change of mind and heaven fell that night let me go!
I tried but could not bring
The best of everything
Too breathless then to wonder
I died a thousand times
Found guilty of no crime
Now everything is thunder
Daytime all I want is Night time!
I dont need the Day time!
All I want is Night time!
I dont need the...
Daytime all I want is Night time!
I dont need the Day time!
All I want is Night time!
I dont need the... Got-to Got-to Got-to Got-to let me go!
Badoop bop boob bop boob badop bob...
The best years of our lives
The hope of it survives
The facts of life unspoken
The only game in town
Ill turn the last card down
And now the bank is broken
Found guilty of no crime
They were the best years of our lives
Ill turn the last card down...
