So… Does the end of the first verse “make sense”? No. If you focus too hard on any one stroke–any individual line–you’re going to miss out on the greater image. Here’s the thing about this song: You have to think of it like a painting. It’s the final line of the first verse that is really surprising–it suggests that the bottle of whiskey being drunk by these two old friends was cast into the ocean years before by the main character’s father. They’re playing guitar and talking about the good old days and getting wonderfully plastered.īut suddenly, we realize that the character in this song is in the midst of discovering a “truth inside that bottle”. In the first verse, we are immediately transported into an intimate, drunken night between two old friends. “Spent the night with a friend of mine and a handle of good whiskey We picked guitars and talked about how the glory days we missed ’em And it didn’t take too long to find the truth inside that bottle Cast a-sea so long ago was a message from my father.” What is Zac Brown Band’s “Let it Go” About? Like a sweet sunset in Georgia let it go And like the fear that grabs ahold ya let it go (La la la) Let it go (La la la) Let it go Looking back now on my life I can’t say I regret it And all the places that I ended up not the way Ma woulda had it But you only get one chance at life to leave your mark upon it And when a pony he comes riding by you better set your sweet ass on it You keep your heart above your head and your eyes wide open So this world can’t find a way to leave you cold And know you’re not the only ship out on the ocean Save your strength for things that you can change Forgive the ones you can’t You gotta let it go Spent the night with a friend of mine and a handle of good whiskey We picked guitars and talked about how the glory days we missed ’em And it didn’t take too long to find the truth inside that bottle Cast a-sea so long ago was a message from my father. Zac Brown Band Let it Go Lyrics and Meaning with Video This song is not cryptic in the way of Sting’s song, “Message in a Bottle.” This song delivers a more folksy, straight-to-the-point kind of message.įirst, let’s check out the song. It forms the chorus of the song, and it seeks to impart a lesson. In this song, the message in a bottle really is a “message”. Photo by Sgt.1st Class Chuck Burden, retrieved through Wikipedia.