While Assad has already built a strong solo career writing introspective, piano-based folk-pop, her creative collaboration with Jones as a duo showcases both of their unique abilities to paint with a different, more experimental sonic palette. For example, the song “Heartbreaker” features 1980s-inspired keyboard tones, dare-you-to-dance drum machine beats, and a guitar solo that edges dangerously close to hair metal power-balladry, all floating over a bubbling synthesizer-fueled undercurrent. Playing a contrasting foil to the song’s upbeat music are lyrics that deal head-on with themes of self-seduction and relational dysfunction. The same fearless mix of openhearted poetics and instrumental inventiveness also shines through in the vintage analog synth-drenched “Darkness” and the cinematic “Arrow,” a song influenced by the provocative divinity-meets-humanity encounter of Bernini’s 17th century sculpture, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
With a newfound lyrical freedom and an unfettered attitude towards modern pop music, the duo hopes that LEVV will create a unique sonic space for people to encounter themselves and their own experiences. If you just so happen to find yourself dancing along throughout the entire process, well, that’s part of the plan too.
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Learning To Let Go
Levv Lyrics
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Your heart in your chest, knife in your breast
Call it what you want, honey
When you battle like a soldier, dropping bombs on everything you see
Fighting a forsaken war, what for?
You create your enemies
Runaway, runaway I wish you would give it up and come home
But you battle like a soldier, dropping bombs on everything you see
Fighting a forsaken war, what for?
You create your enemies
But I am learning to let go of you.
Give me a rhyme or reason why I should turn my back and be gone
At times I confess, it seems the best and easiest way to go on
But I battle like a soldier, picking up the pieces of our love
Fighting a forsaken war: what for, when it's time to give up?
The lyrics of Levv's song, Learning to Let Go, tell the story of a person who is living a lie while stealing from the singer. The narrative voice describes the person's heart as both being in their chest and also having a knife in their breast, which can be a metaphor for how they are struggling emotionally. The chorus reveals that the person is battling like a soldier, dropping bombs on everything they see, and fighting in a forsaken war that the singer cannot understand. Despite this battle, the viewpoint character expresses a desire for the person they are addressing to come home, saying that they are learning to let them go.
The second verse appears to be a response to the previous verse, with the singer asking for a "rhyme or reason why I should turn my back and be gone". They admit that at times they feel like giving up on the situation, but they are still fighting "like a soldier" to pick up the pieces of their love. The song overall appears to be about the difficulties of letting go of someone even when it might be the best thing to do. The lyrics use war imagery to describe the way that the relationship feels like a constant struggle, with battles and enemies on all sides.
Line by Line Meaning
Living alone, living a lie, stealing what you need from me
You're living alone and lying to yourself, taking what you want from me
Your heart in your chest, knife in your breast
You're hurting yourself with your own emotions
Call it what you want, honey
You can label it however you like
When you battle like a soldier, dropping bombs on everything you see
You fight aggressively, destroying everything in your path
Fighting a forsaken war, what for?
You're fighting a pointless battle
You create your enemies
You make enemies because of your actions
Runaway, runaway I wish you would give it up and come home
I want you to stop running away and return to me
The fear in your eyes, you're seeing spies everywhere you turn, you know
You're paranoid and scared, thinking everyone is against you
But I am learning to let go of you.
I'm trying to move on from you
Give me a rhyme or reason why I should turn my back and be gone
Tell me why I should leave you behind
At times I confess, it seems the best and easiest way to go on
Sometimes it feels like leaving you is the simplest solution
But I battle like a soldier, picking up the pieces of our love
I'm fighting to keep our relationship alive
Fighting a forsaken war: what for, when it's time to give up?
Why keep fighting when it's clear it's time to let go?
Contributed by Caden I. Suggest a correction in the comments below.