Let go of the ones who hurt you
Let go of the ones you outgrow
Let go of the words they hurl your way
as youβre walking out the door
The only thing cut and dry
In this hedge-maze life
Is the fact that their words will cut
but your tears will dry
They donβt tell you this when you are young
You canβt hold on to everything
Canβt show up for everyone
You pick your poison
Or your cure
Phone numbers you know by heart
And the ones you donβt answer any more
Hold on to the faint recognition in
the eye of a stranger
As it catches you in its lustrous net
How quickly we become intertwined
How wonderful it is to forget
All the times your intuition failed you
But it hasnβt killed you yet
Hold on to childlike whims and moonlight swims and your blazing self-respect
And if you drive the roads of this town
Ones youβve gone down so many times before
Flashback to all the times
Life nearly ran you off the road
But tonight your hand is steady
Suddenly youβll know
The trick to holding on
Was all that letting go
βThe Trick to Letting Goβ byΒ Taylor Swift for Vogue (x)