“The echo of that party, the night I lost my voice,
The silence that surrounds it no longer feels like a choice,
I need you to believe me when I say I find it hard
To keep myself from floating away, I will try not to let go”.
Jacklin doesn’t long for a lost love or a lost relative on ‘Love, Try Not To Let Go’. Rather, she longs to return to a place. The echo of her hometown haunts her, the things she never said to those she left behind, the insurmountable distance between them. She remembers a party, a night she lost her voice, which she compares to the silence that now defines her relationship with her hometown.
“The silence that surrounds it no longer feels like a choice,” she sings, “I need you to believe me when I say I find it hard to keep myself from floating away.” It’s a feeling anyone who has moved away from home will be familiar with, an inevitable floating away from that place and the people in it, no matter how hard you try to keep contact.
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