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I'm Gonna Let It Go

By Jason Gray

2,109 views Sep 11, 2026 updated Order, Disorder, Reorder album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

"It's hard for me to let go, hard for me to breathe, thinking that I gotta control it all" — Jason Gray names the actual mechanism behind his anxiety as a control problem before calling it anxiety at all. "I can feel my heart go boom boom boom, starin' at the ceiling, feeling like a fool" keeps the description physical and specific rather than a vague reference to stress.

"I hear you whisper to me, if I lose my grip I could see that You are carrying me" reframes the fear of letting go as a misunderstanding of what's actually holding things together — the grip was never the thing keeping him safe. "Being carried in the current of Your love" extends that logic into a specific image: not standing still and trusting, but already in motion, already being moved.

"When I lean into Your arms, You're enough" answers the opening admission of insufficiency directly. The final verse turns resolution into action rather than feeling — "letting go of my worries, for my need to control things" and "I'm gonna lay down all my burdens" state the decision as something done, not just hoped for, closing a song that opened in the middle of a sleepless, anxious night.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

It’s hard for me to let go 

Hard for me to breathe  

Thinking that I gotta control it all  

I can feel my worry and anxiety  

When it’s slipping through my fingers and I know  

I been losing my sleep, I been losing my cool  

I can feel my heart go boom boom boom  

Starin’ at the ceiling, feeling like a fool  

I’m going under and I know it  


But I hear you whisper to me  

If I lose my grip I could see  

That you are carrying me  


Oh I’m gonna let it, I’m gonna let it go  

Oh ‘cause if I trusted, I could move with Your flow  

Being carried in the current of Your love  

When I lean into Your arms, You’re enough  

So, I’m gonna let it 

I’m gonna let it go  


Time for me to let go,  

Time for me to breathe  

Knowing that He already holds it all  

Time for me to turn down this anxiety  

I can know my freedom in a moment  

When I lay it all down, you’re gonna lift me up  

When I pour it all out you’re gonna fill my cup  

You’re holding out your arms and telling me to jump 1-2-3 here I go yeah  


Cause I hear you whisper to me  

If I lose my grip will see  

You’re always carrying me  


Oh I’m gonna let it, I’m gonna let it go  

Oh ‘cause if I trusted, I could move with Your flow  

Being carried in the current of Your love  

When I lean into Your arms, You’re enough 

So, I’m gonna let it 

I’m gonna let it go  


Letting go of my worries 

For my need to control things 

I’m gonna take You at Your word 

I’m gonna lay down all my burdens 

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