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Lettin You Go (with all my heart)

from All Points in Between by Jonathan Birchfield

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I love songs in three quarter time. And I love writing in the haunting rhythm of the waltz.
“Letting You Go” was one of those songs that fell into the waltz time from the beginning. And it never considered another time signature.
For a few days I had had this picture in my head of a heartbroken, mad lady, standing in front of a mirror, and writing the last words her lover would ever read from her. It’s so perfect the fact that she wrote it in the lipstick that he loved her to wear.
I was explaining to Kirsti Manna what I was seeing in my head and how I wanted the listener to feel as if they were looking over each persons shoulder and watching this ending take place from both sides of the relationship. As I was talking, Kirsti was taking notes. Then together we started telling a story and painting a picture of heartbreak as best we could. And we did well.
It’s hard to let something go. Much less letting it go with all of everything you have left. You know you’ve come to a finite end when you finally cast it away from bottom of your heart

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Letting You Go (With all my heart)
(JB, K.Manna)

Your lipstick dried fast on the mirror
That’s how you left
Your final reply
You never liked writing long letters
And you were never
good at goodbyes

And that painted reflection
I see the man who once heard your I dos
Well I, I never clamied perfection
But then again
Neither did you

You can taker some of the memories
You’ve taken most of my pride
It’s not that your leaving
That tear’s me apart
It’s letting you go
With all of my heart

I guess, I saw it coming
But wishing help turn my head
And now I have no more chances
To say the things
I should have said

And my hand
It starts to tremble
As I wipe away the last trace of you
It may be, more than accidental
I see a man you never knew

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from All Points in Between, released April 22, 2007

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jonathan birchfield Charlotte, North Carolina

From the foothills of NC Jonathan has been entertaining and turning heads for 35 years. Think of Keith Richards and Merle Haggard jaming with Lynyrd Skynyrd. In an over saturated world of “bro-country”, country outlaw wannabes, JB has remained true to the roots of his musical past. JBs music has been described as an in your face, southern country, roots rock, from the southern heartland. ... more

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