Wells' success in the 1950s and 1960s was so enormous that she still ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of the Billboard country charts according to historian Joel Whitburn's book "The Top 40 Country Hits", behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker. Wells was the third country music artist, behind Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991 as well as being the seventh woman and first Caucasian woman to receive the honor. In 1976, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Release Me
Kitty Wells Lyrics
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I don't love you anymore
To live together is a sin
Release me and let me love again
I have found a new love, dear
And I'll always want him near
His lips are warm while yours are cold
Oh please release me, let me go
I don't love you anymore
To live together is a sin
Release me and let me love again
Kitty Wells's classic song "Release Me" is a haunting ballad about the end of a relationship. The song's narrator pleads with her former lover to let her go because she loves someone else now. She can't continue to live with him because it's a sin to stay together when she doesn't love him anymore. The singer describes her new love as warm and her former lover's lips as cold, a clear indication that she has moved on emotionally.
The lyrics "Release me and let me love again" are particularly poignant because they express the singer's desire for happiness and a second chance at love. The song is a powerful reminder that love can be both beautiful and painful, and that sometimes it's necessary to let go of the past in order to move forward.
Line by Line Meaning
Please release me, let me go
I am pleading with you to let me go from this relationship.
I don't love you anymore
My feelings for you have faded and I have fallen out of love with you.
To live together is a sin
Our relationship has turned toxic and it is not healthy for us to continue living together.
Release me and let me love again
In order to move on and find true love, I need you to release me from this relationship.
I have found a new love, dear
I have found someone who makes me truly happy and who I want to be with.
And I'll always want him near
My new love means everything to me and I want to be with him all the time.
His lips are warm while yours are cold
Compared to my new love, you feel cold and distant to me.
Release me darling, let me go
I am asking you, my beloved, to let me go and start a new chapter in my life.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Dub Williams, Eddie Miller, Robert Yount
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@runningdownadream6691
such a raw sound that makes it more and more enjoyable in life....true sounds of amazing music...
@bst6791
Beautiful.The voice, the arrangement, just beautiful.
@stolty21
R.I.P. to a one of a kind original true country singer that will never be replaced!
@Crlpope
Wow 1954 I was just ten years old but still remember her sining on the radio such a beautiful voice!
@showmegrncash
I too grew up with her music and loved it. I'm so happy we still have her music...R.I.P. Miss Kitty...Country music is not the same and as good as it was back then...
@elizabethalcantar1229
Wow! Throughout the years I've heard this song. I was 3yrs old in 1954. Great song!
@marcosbryant27
What do you admire most about Kitty Wells
@shirleypalumbo5046
grew up on these songs, love the old time country music
@claytonbrowm3984
There are very few of the female singers of today who can compare to the only Queen of country music
@olmmbill
RIP, Queen of Country Music.