Never Let You Go
The City Lights Lyrics

There's every good reason for letting you go
She's becoming dishonest and destroying herself, so it's best to end the relationship.

I never let you go [x3]
I never abandoned you or gave up on our relationship.

I never let you turn around, our back on each other
I never allowed either of us to give up on each other or break a promise.

That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Breaking a promise is akin to defying a sacred, familial bond.

Turn around your back on each other
Giving up on a relationship or abandoning a person is a sign of disrespect and betrayal.

You say that I’ve changed
You've noticed that I've evolved or grown differently as a person.

Well maybe I did
Indeed, I have changed.

But even if I changed
Even if I'm different now,

What's wrong with it
I don't see why that's a problem or something to be ashamed of.

And all our friends are gone and gone
All the people who used to be part of our social circle are no longer around.

And all the time moves on and on
The passage of time is unstoppable and unyielding.

And all I know is it's wrong, it's wrong
Losing our relationship feels innately wrong to me.

If there's a reason, it's lost on me
I don't understand why we have to lose each other or what the reason could be.

Maybe we’ll be friends, I guess we'll see
Perhaps we can remain friends after the end of our romantic relationship, but only time will tell.

What a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Sarcastically, the idea of breaking a promise to one's own mother is presented as honorable.

I remember the stupid things, the mood rings, the bracelets and the beads
I reminisce on the naïve or trivial things we once did together, like exchanging mood rings, or wearing bracelets and beads.

Nickels and dimes, yours and mine, did you cash in all your dreams
Did you give up on all your aspirations or trade them away for petty or frivolous things?

You don't dream for me, no
You don't have aspirations or goals that we share anymore.

But I still feel your pulse like sonar from the days in the waves
I can still sense your presence, like the echo from a sonar, reminding me of our past experiences together.

That girl is like a sunburn / I would like to save
The feminine persona in the song is compared to an affliction that causes pain and discomfort, like a sunburn. But, despite this, they still have an internal desire to rescue her out of compassion.

She's like a sunburn
This feminine persona is being equated to a burning wound.