Music Video - Passenger, Let Her Go

Why are you sharing this song?

While more and more pop artists like Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber...etc, started to copy the way how meaningless pop songs success and produce more trash to their audience, it's getting harder for me to find one song that worth looking at its lyrics. Thank god! We still have "Passenger"! The vocal's voice is quite distinct and brings me the feeling of sadness, however it's an necessity to perform very emotional songs like this one. Most importantly, the song is very poetic written while using simple words, which makes it easily to understand and remember.

What is the meaning of the lyrics?

The meaning of the lyrics: The song is about the sense of regret a person will have when they decide to let their lovers go. The song is following a specific pattern, which is "You only need/miss/know/hate something when you're burning/feeling low". Apparently, the song uses a lot of  antonyms to emphasize the contradiction in the two choices. The loop keeps repeat and repeat, which ensures the chorus been deeply remembered by the audience and also representing the truth people keep decide and regret. However, it's natural that people tends to think of those they couldn't have is better than what they currently have, and people keep letting old ones go and pursuit for the new ones; However, what mostly happened is that people couldn't tell whether the new ones are actually better or not. In the verse he sings, "Staring at the bottom of your glass, hoping one day you'll make a dream last, but dreams come slow and they go so fast.", which is a realistic feeling a person will overcome while they started to question themselves about satisfying their current status or pursuit their great perhaps. Yet, after people make their decision, they started to regret. Therefore, he sings,"Staring at the ceiling in the dark, same old empty feeling in your heart, 'cause love comes slow and it goes so fast ." The empty feeling after we let the old ones go is strongly been written and sang,  I think the writer of the song wants to remind his or hers audience to cherish what they have now. While in his or hers experience, "We only miss the sun when it starts to snow, only know you love her when you let her go."