I Was Blind On My Own

Eddie Chacon “If I Ever Let You Go”

“If I Ever Let You Go” has a highly stylized arrangement – incredibly wet reverb on the percussion, somewhat warbling effects on the vocal, a relatively dry primary keyboard that sounds like moonlight. It’s a little disorienting, but absolutely gorgeous. It’s essentially a romantic ballad about gratitude, of understanding how good you’ve got it and hoping you never screw it up. The first half of the chorus is “if I ever let you go…,” a hypothetical he immediately shoots down in the following line: “I will never let you go.” He repeats it a few times over towards the end, as the music drifts off into a woozy psychedelic haze. The song ends feeling a little unsettled and elliptical, but it needs to do that to honor the sentiment. He’s facing the future, looking off to the unknown, and making a vow.

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