Everyone has said what needs to be said, but the lyric that sticks with me is the mournful way Isaac Slade sings 'don't let me go' all throughout the song. I can't help but feel my heart wrench a little bit when I hear that. He always seems to pack all that emotion right into his voice, I love it.

does anyone really knows what does this song really really means?
what is the actual story behind the song?
reply to this comment please? its appreciated.

This song means everything to me. For over two years every song I hear reminds me of this guy I love. After all this time, this may be the last one because I have to let him go. Essentially, we only dated for 4 months and it ended before it began. I was in the worse place in my life and he was going through his own issues. But I pushed him away by being too needy and demanding. Bottom line, he was all I had and I needed him. I have waited for him all this time and he treated my terribly. We have a weird addicted relationship to eachother. I couldnt leave him alone and told him to block me from his phone so he did last November. There is so much to it but I believe he always loved me too but didnt think he deserved me(especially after how he treated me) but I love him unconditionally. We both self sabotaged the relationship. He respects my opinion and knows I have his best interest at heart. I told him he was wasting his time with all of these girls and to find himself a nice girl like his ex before me. I said I can tell shes a nice girl just by looking at her picture. He got back with her the next week after not being with her for over 1 year and half.(Just giving you an example). Until a month ago, I still called his phone from other numbers incesintly and would leave like 25 messages a day. He is my best friend but wont talk to me. In the past(during these last two years) he would pick up periodically and we talked but he never has called me once. Even when we talked he never said he wanted to get back together and that I need to move on. I have wrote him several times and I speak to his phone as if were together and in a relationship. This is to much information but I do everything from masturbating for him, cry to him, laugh, tell him about my day and life. (He lives in California and I moved back to Michigan after he broke my heart and other reasons too)In the past couple months I begged him to block me from my parents phone and he will not(to close any possible form of communication between us). I beg him to let me go but he won't. He is beyond selfish. I fell into a deep depression for almost a year and had to get on antidepressants to get over him and because of the situation. Anyone who is reading this probably doesnt and will never understand all of the dynamics. I loved him from the moment I met him and even though our time together was brief, it was the happiest times of my life. We are soul mates and I'm crying as I type this. I still cry myself to sleep almost every night. For the first time in my life, I didnt feel alone when I was with him. Life is all about timing. His weird bizarre way of showing me he cares is to look at my blogs from my myspace. (Thats how I knew he loved me because for over year I would check my views and he looked at them over 700 times. After I confronted him about it, he denied it and the views stopped completely for a while(Hence how I knew it was him and not other people). Then I would call his phone and sometimes say please show me you care and look at my blog and he would log in and view them. This sounds crazy but true(hard to explain). I'm a writer and have published articles about him and our situation. My friends and everyone has never thought he cared about me and would say I'm delussional but I know in my heart hes loved me all along. He loves to play mind games and bah blah but lately and finally I have convinced myself that if he ever calls me and I know one day he will but it will be too late. I use to sing to him all the time and play the piano for him(He's a talented musican) The last message I leFt him I said I wish you could see me now. I'm finally on track and have everything going for me accept having you. I know he doesnt deserve me, I gave him everything but the heart feel what the heart feels. The last thing I said was that people settle for what they think they deserve(The ex he got back with is not right for him at all) He cant even be his true self around her and she doesnt know him like I do) Her and I have argued on the phone I may not know every fact about him but I know his heart. I wonder what people will think when they read this. Maybe you'll empathize or think I'm crazy but that is my story. Never say never but I finally am letting him go.........

This song means everything to me. For over two years every song I hear reminds me of this guy I love. After all this time, this may be the last one because I have to let him go. Essentially, we only dated for 4 months and it ended before it began. I was in the worse place in my life and he was going through his own issues. But I pushed him away by being too needy and demanding. Bottom line, he was all I had and I needed him. I have waited for him all this time and he treated my terribly. We have a weird addicted relationship to eachother. I couldnt leave him alone and told him to block me from his phone so he did last November. There is so much to it but I believe he always loved me too but didnt think he deserved me(especially after how he treated me) but I love him unconditionally. We both self sabotaged the relationship. He respects my opinion and knows I have his best interest at heart. I told him he was wasting his time with all of these girls and to find himself a nice girl like his ex before me. I said I can tell shes a nice girl just by looking at her picture. He got back with her the next week after not being with her for over 1 year and half.(Just giving you an example). Until a month ago, I still called his phone from other numbers incesintly and would leave like 25 messages a day. He is my best friend but wont talk to me. In the past(during these last two years) he would pick up periodically and we talked but he never has called me once. Even when we talked he never said he wanted to get back together and that I need to move on. I have wrote him several times and I speak to his phone as if were together and in a relationship. This is to much information but I do everything from masturbating for him, cry to him, laugh, tell him about my day and life. (He lives in California and I moved back to Michigan after he broke my heart and other reasons too)In the past couple months I begged him to block me from my parents phone and he will not(to close any possible form of communication between us). I beg him to let me go but he won't. He is beyond selfish. I fell into a deep depression for almost a year and had to get on antidepressants to get over him and because of the situation. Anyone who is reading this probably doesnt and will never understand all of the dynamics. I loved him from the moment I met him and even though our time together was brief, it was the happiest times of my life. We are soul mates and I'm crying as I type this. I still cry myself to sleep almost every night. For the first time in my life, I didnt feel alone when I was with him. Life is all about timing. His weird bizarre way of showing me he cares is to look at my blogs from my myspace. (Thats how I knew he loved me because for over year I would check my views and he looked at them over 700 times. After I confronted him about it, he denied it and the views stopped completely for a while(Hence how I knew it was him and not other people). Then I would call his phone and sometimes say please show me you care and look at my blog and he would log in and view them. This sounds crazy but true(hard to explain). I'm a writer and have published articles about him and our situation. My friends and everyone has never thought he cared about me and would say I'm delussional but I know in my heart hes loved me all along. He loves to play mind games and bah blah but lately and finally I have convinced myself that if he ever calls me and I know one day he will but it will be too late. I use to sing to him all the time and play the piano for him(He's a talented musican) The last message I leFt him I said I wish you could see me now. I'm finally on track and have everything going for me accept having you. I know he doesnt deserve me, I gave him everything but the heart feel what the heart feels. The last thing I said was that people settle for what they think they deserve(The ex he got back with is not right for him at all) He cant even be his true self around her and she doesnt know him like I do) Her and I have argued on the phone I may not know every fact about him but I know his heart. I wonder what people will think when they read this. Maybe you'll empathize or think I'm crazy but that is my story. Never say never but I finally am letting him go.........

To me, this is a song about 2 unhappily married people who are having an affair and in love - some things we don't talk about (affairs), rather do without (love and happiness) hold the smile (to the outside world) falling in and out of love (with the ones they are married to) both ashamed and proud of together all the while (ashamed to be cheating, proud of their marriage, together with their spouses) both are married to somebody else, but who have found eachother again (younger now than we were before) means they had a past with eachother, and have found eachother and fallen in love once again. They try and try to break the affair off, but just can't (we're pulling apart and coming together again and again) There is a force that is too strong that keeps bringing them together. They can't be together at this time because of family responsibilities, but want to so badly. He is telling her not to let him go. To keep him in her life. He wants to be her guardian and take care of her, saying he'll give her everything as far as the eye can see. He wants her to fight for him, and not just let him walk away and let him go because it's the right thing for them to do, he knows they are right for eachother -and he's saying that he'll be there for her. He is hoping that the future will indeed bring them together someday (never say never), and that there is hope that maybe someday they can indeed be together the way they want and should be.

The Fray is Gay!

yup i agree with the interpretations ppl made here. and i would say its fantastic how songs get to ppl with a very different situation.

but here i do feel like there's this non ending struggle between 2 people and these 2 people are like good friends or even soul mates that they can't let go of each other. Like time to time the guy is always there for her and seems to be forever will. but he just don't understand why the girl does not give in her full self . He seemed to be everything she needs but somehow she just does not tell the guy her true feelings but rather telling him things that would hurt him.. let say things about another guy that she fancy.. but for some reason.. the guy is for the commitment. he likes her, but couldnt. yet he will guard/ support her till the end. and he doesnt want the girl to let him go. as if he feels lost when the girl is not around him.. she will always be his first priority.

yet there's always a distance between both of them. both knew by heart they loved each other but the words are just unable to say it out loud. the guy wishes to tell the girl but couldnt cause her heart's floating in the air. she was confused at a moment. she likes another guy and at a same time looking for this guardian all the time when she needs him. which is like a triangle relationship song ..but after all the guy can't say how much he love her since the girl can't decide who she really loves. after all these confusions they had been thru, they always find a way to mend the relationship..

yet the guy is still hopeful that one day the girl will turn to him, so he's not letting her go and wishes the girl does not let go of him as well.

lol i've got another story that fits this song :D
very well written song suits a variety of ppl in undergoing a difficult relationship.

I agree with what most people are saying, but I am confused about a part in the song. What do ya'll think it means when he says "While we don't know when, but time and time again"

This song reminds me of my dad. He just passed away 2 months ago, and I still cry every night. It makes me think that he would be saying things like not to let him go, when times get hard he will be there as my guardian, and I think he would say "never say never," because I'm scared that I won't ever see him again... This song makes me cry wherever I am. :(

They both are holding their smile, wanting the other to know that everything is good with and between them…despite the fact that in reality they are falling in and out of love (which can really play with your emotions, always thinking and questioning), ashamed of some of the thoughts they have had about the other while proud of others at the same time but Never say never…meaning don’t ever say we’re not going to end up together and while we don’t know when or truly if we ever we will just don’t say we won’t. Time is passing and they are getting older, but their mentality about it is beautiful, younger now than we were before. They both don’t want the other to let go for real maybe temporarily to find out who they are on their own but not to actually let go by giving their heart to someone else. He wants her to picture she is the queen of everything, I think it just means he wants to give her the reign to his world and he will be her guardian, her protector when all is crumbling....when or if things become more difficult than they’ve already been he will be there for her in the way she hopes. Music is the great communicator and it seems as if they are pulling apart and then coming together over and over. With time apart it seems as if they are growing very distant but he as well as she has faith that they can pull it together, just as strongly if not more than they have been pulled apart. Him, her, or both deep down don’t want the other to move on and let the other go. I really like listening to this song, its really nice.

A boy and a girl used to be together, but they broke up along time ago and are just best friends now. They are both falling in love with each other again "younger now then we were before".

1 Reply

A boy and a girl used to be together, but they broke up along time ago and are just best friends now. They are both falling in love with each other again "younger now then we were before".

i think its about a guy who doesnt know what he wants. he wants to be in her life and he really cares about her, but their relationship has had problems, they stay together through it all and now they are breaking up for good, but he doesnt really want to....idk thats just how i see it :] i love this song.

The Fray is a great band, their music so touching.

To me this song means a couple is going though a hard time be it he's in the service and far away. Its from the other person point of view. They don't want to give in a break up and they can tell the other person is thinking about it things get in the way..it can be distance because they are away in the military or everyday life. But the person talking is pointing out even though they may fall apart they still keep coming together. And that even though the future can be unknown this person can unconsciencely see it with them and tell them to not give up.

"Don't let me go

Picture you're queen of everything
Far as the eye can see under your command
I will be your guardian when all is crumbling
I'll steady your hand"

And that its just a matter of time before all this is behide them it just a question of when not will it happen.

"You can never say never
While we don't know when

But time and time again
Younger now than we were before

Don't let me go"

And when that times comes she ( or the other person) will be "the queen" and the other person " the guardin."

Its who they are as a couple and filling those roles per say together.

i agree, that this song can be interpreted in many different ways

for me, it's about two people who have been friends all along--"together all the while", and both fell for each other but never really never admitted it--"some things we don't talk about". and now it's not seeming that it will work out, but you can "never say never". they also don't want to let go of the friendship. one of the people involved perhaps admitted their feelings, but is saying "don't let me go." and then "but we pull it together"--still friends after all.

DistantNFaded has the perfect interpretation of the song. the reason this song got to me so much is because i can relate to it alot also, but on a different level.

my ex girlfriend, we've been on and off for so long but ive always wanted for us to get back together. while we were together i kept things from her and this caused us to split up even afterwards i still kept things from her, the reason for this was because i was always scared that the truth would hurt her more, stupid really!

but now she doesnt want to know me anymore, because of all these mistakes i knew i was making and didnt do anything to stop them.

"Falling in and out of love" - the way ive been i feel as though this is how she feels about me

"Picture you're queen of everything
Far as the eye can see under your command
I will be your guardian when all is crumbling
I'll steady your hand"

considering Ive ruined things completely when we split i still seen her as like the most important person in the world and i tried everything in my power to always give her what she wanted and i still try to now

and finally the part that fits in with me so perfectly,

"Don't let me go" i don't wanna loose her! but i feel as though shes slipping away each day due to my silly mistakes!

this song is amazing.
enough said :)

What does the chorus mean?

You can never say never
While we don�t know when
But time and time again
Younger now than we were before

I thought there would be more comments for this song. This is possibly my favorite, atleast it's up there on my list.
He is definitely a passionate guy singing his songs.

i'm a little biased but what i think this song is about is a guy or girl who's boy/girl friend is wanting to break up with them, and they don't want them to go, they just wanna hold onto what they have for as long as they can. this totally describes what i was just going through
my girlfriend just broke up with me, and now she wants to be best friends, the horribly sad thing is i thought i had found my true love in her, she was my everything and now it just hurts. it's like i had given her my heart and my soul, and she just threw back in my face. even her name sounds different. it pains me everytime i have to see her, cause i know there is absolutely no chance of us ever getting back together, cause when she left me she went ahead and already got another boyfriend.

Well, I'm pretty sure that I can't add to what has already been said but I will try.

Like many people, this song applies to my life right now very much... except backwards because I am on the recieving end of this... and I'm a guy. This song, I believe, is about a guy wanting a girl to come back after they broke up. He doesn't want her to leave him once and for all. They have been trying again and again to get back together ("Falling in and out of love"). This has happened again, but this time, he is afraid that it will be lasting.

In my life, there was a girl that was simply amazing. We dated for about 4 months, then broke up mainly as a result of pressure from our sports and tough classes. For five months after we broke up, we stayed together, just without 'the title'. We never got back together because we would fight over stupid stuff even though we always made up. Eventually, I was an idiot and, despite my ex's begging, decided to go out with my best friend. My ex stopped talking to me altoghther. My best friend and I have been going out for about a month now and I still can't get used to the thought of going out with her. I have been missing my ex more and more too.

Two days ago, I was listening to this song, and thinking about my ex (yes, I know that sounds really bad) and for the first time in a month, I got a text from her. It was a simple sad face- :(. I'm split now. I don't want to hurt my best friend, but I don't think it's fair to her to think about another girl. I have no idea what to do. This song is perfect, and yep, that's my personal anecdote.

1 Reply

This song is one of those special songs that can be interpreted many different ways according to what the listener is going through in his or her life. I love their new cd and this is, without a doubt, my favorite song from it. A lot of the posts before mine have made sense and I can definitely see where they got their ideas from but I have a different take on this song. I think it's about a guy and a girl who were in a relationship together, rather than being just friends, and things ended between them. Because they are both so scared of getting hurt again, they don't talk about getting back together or how they are still in love with one another. They fall in and out of love with each other as they try to patch up their relationship. The guy believes that they can make it and that they will be together again one day so he tells her to "Never say never." He tries to reassure her and tell her not to be afraid because he loves her and will always be there for her, especially when times are rough. He does all he can to convince her that they belong together but ultimately, it's up to her. His heart is in her hands so he tells her to not let him go. Don't break his heart and make him whole once again.

I am going through something extremely similar to the situation I see when I listen to this song. My girlfriend and I were together for over four years and she was the love of my life. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her and I thought that she wanted all the same things I did. But somewhere along the road, she got scared and ended things between us. My heart has been broken for the past seven months and I want nothing more than to hold her in my arms again. I tell her that if she chose me, she wouldn't need to be afraid because, "I will be your guardian when all is crumbling. I'll steady your hand."

this is a really beautiful song, the instrumental part towards the end is very passionate. Love it.

I agree with what everyone has been saying. But what I truly think it means is this:

Two people are in a relationship right now. The guy is all in but the girl is scared of the future, scared to pursue anything serious.

Somethings, we don't talk about, such as the future. Instead, living life day by day seeing where it will take them. Rather to do without thinking, and holding the smile back, ashamed you can't express your true feelings, yet proud of what you have in your arms.

The guy wants to express how he feels, yet you can never say never, about things that can happen.

Don't Let me go...

However, through thick and thin, I will always be here for you. Your the queen of everything, under your command. Through hard times, I will be here. When you are at your worst moment in life, I will be here. I'll steady your hand.

Younger now than we were before. Pulling apart from each other, yet knowing that we can't live without each other. Decisions are tough. But whatever you choose and whatever you want, i will always be here for you, and I will always love you.

We are together...so don't let me go. Don't let me go, don't let me go...

Personal events that are happening in my life right now. Tell me what you think.

this song is beautiful.
end of story.
just the way he sings the line "Don't Let Me Go."
Simply BEAUTIFUL

1 Reply