
Lars' Video Pick of the Day: Let Me Go - Heaven 17
by
Lars Hindsley
on Wed 05 Mar 2008 07:00 AM EST
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 ... more »