I have a ringing in my head
And no one to help me answer it
Even with you close enough to kiss

Every minute is arranged
Every moment lasts a day
But thinking about it can't help me let go, I know

Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk
Gotta love how it's somehow all on me
All the petty scenes
And all the pretty things
Say whatever you want
'Cause I can laugh it off
I can laugh it off

I must look like I'm running away
To you at your faster pace
I wonder what it is you could have seen, in me

I'm the evil one who said.
Gonna let everything just happen
Just like my chest, my ears are proud
The collision is such an ugly sound

I can hear you now
Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk
Gotta love how it's somehow all on me
All the petty scenes
And all the pretty things
Say whatever you want
'Cause I can laugh it off
Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk
Gotta love how it's somehow all on me
And all the placings
And all the pretty things
Say whatever you want
'Cause I can laugh it off
I can laugh it off

I can hear you now
Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk
Gotta love how it's somehow all on me
All the petty scenes
And all the pretty things
Say whatever you want
'Cause I can laugh it off

Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk
Gotta love how it's somehow all on me
All the petty scenes
And all the pretty things
Say whatever you want
'Cause I can laugh it off



Lyrics submitted by ellie117

Track duration: 03:26

"Let It Happen" as written by James Christopher/burch Adkins

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

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    General Comment:Although it probably doesn’t mean this, when I listen to this song certain aspects of the song remind me of my relationship with a guy…or the relationship that never quite happened.

    ‘I have a ringing in my head
    And no one to help me answer it
    Even with you close enough to kiss’
    Reminds me of all the little moments…so close to being something and him not really knowing if he should go through with it or not.

    ‘Gotta love how it's somehow all on me
    All the petty scenes
    And all the pretty things’
    I kind of blame him for all the flirty, charming, potential, intimate moments…although it’s not like I did nothing.

    ‘I must look like I'm running away’
    Whenever there was the possibility for something to happen he would suddenly leave.

    ‘Yeah, I'm the evil one who said:
    "Gonna let everything just happen"’
    He never said he had a girlfriend…he just kept leading me on and continued with the flirting…

    BASICALLY, a guy with a girlfriend who meets a girl he has an attraction to, but being a decent guy he would never cheat on his girlfriend…but he can’t let the other girl go/doesn’t want to lose her interest in him.
    Flag jentendencorelavoixon July 25, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:To me, this song is about trying to deny that you're in love, to both yourself and others.
    Flag cheezwhiz110on May 08, 2010   Link
  • +1
    Song Meaning:As someone with mild schizoid personality disorder, I feel like this song relates to that experience a lot.
    "I have a ringing in my head
    And no one to help me answer it
    Even with you close enough to kiss"
    The feeling of "loneliness in the midst of a crowd" is how I feel whenever I am around people. I do (deep deep down) want to connect with people and have close relationships, but I have no idea how to start a relationship or be emotionally intimate. Social interaction is like a foreign language to me.

    "Talk, talking a lot, but it's still talk
    Gotta love how it's somehow all on me
    ...Say whatever you want cause I can laugh it off"
    another symptom of SPD is 'Indifference to either praise or criticism.' For me, I simply never trust what people say to my face. I simply assume anything they say is for their own benefit somehow. and "thinking about it can't help me let go"- I try to tell myself I'm being paranoid, but the suspicion is like an involuntary bodily reflex I can't control.

    "All the petty scenes
    And all the pretty things"
    "I must look like I'm running away
    To you at your faster pace"
    'Indifference to social norms and conventions. Emotional coldness, detachment or reduced affection. Limited capacity to express either positive or negative emotions towards others.' I often feel like a visitor to an alien society that I know nothing about. I know other people think I'm cold or aloof or indifferent to other people, but I feel like this is just as much society's fault. I'm not mean or cruel, I just don't act the way people think I'm to, because I even though I try. I look like I'm a loner because I don't like other people, because I choose to be, but I really just don't have basic social skills.

    "Yeah, I'm the evil one who said:
    'Gonna let everything just happen'"
    This kind of goes with the above: passivity or fear of doing something wrong being perceived negatively.

    Anyway, that's how I relate to the song.
    Flag nuxion October 08, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this song, brings back better days, when i hear it all i can remember is the day that it first played. maaan, its songs like this that make you want a time machine just to see it all one more time.
    Flag [s]aint.on January 25, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's about constantly being the one whos blamed for everything. And how in the end it doesn't matter what they say cuz you can laugh it off and go on with life.
    Flag Unknownsageon October 12, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Wait, I thought it was "every moment lasts a day" not "every moment lasts a game".....
    Flag sarah.starduston July 10, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Wait, I thought it was "every moment lasts a day" not "every moment lasts a game".....
    Flag sarah.starduston July 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:mhm i dont know.
    it soudns like an ex type thing but when he says

    "I'm the evil one who said, gonna let everything jsut happen"

    reminda me of almost getting to the point of having a relationship but with someone you like but them expecting you to do all the work.Idont know thats how i saw it anyway
    Flag TeenAgeKickson March 29, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:the way i interpreted this was a way the pertains to my life. like it's being sung from the other woman/guy (in this case) cause like the one who was cheated on blames the other girl or guy so the singer is like "gotta love how it's somehow all on me". and then sometimes the other person doesn't even plan on it happening, "i'm the evil one who said 'gonna let everything just happen'"
    yea. thats how i saw it as
    Flag awkward_crayonx3on March 28, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think its "every miniute is arranged"

    "every moment lasts a game"

    as well as

    "All the petty scenes"
    "and all the pretty things"

    as well as

    "I must look like i'm running away"
    Flag Matthew15on February 07, 2008   Link

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