Can't Let Her Go – English Lyrics

• By: Boyz II Men

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(door creaking)

(lights buzzing)

(people chattering)

♪ Don't creep baby ♪

♪ Yeah yeah ♪

(upbeat music)

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ 'Cause I need the love she gives to me ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ And she knows that we were meant to be ♪

♪ First time I saw her ♪

♪ Thought that I would lose my mind ♪

♪ Just had to have her ♪

♪ I had to have her in my life ♪

♪ The way you make me feel ♪

♪ Is like no other feeling that I've had before ♪

♪ Before ♪

♪ You give the kind of loving ♪

♪ Make a brother wanna come for more ♪

♪ And more she's the one I adore ♪

♪ That's why I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ 'Cause I need the love she gives to me ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ And she knows that we were meant to be ♪

♪ Just can't believe it ♪

♪ She's got me open all the time ♪

♪ She knows I'm never leaving ♪

♪ Can't be wrong because it feels so right ♪

♪ The way you make me feel ♪

♪ Is like no other feeling that I've had before ♪

♪ Before ♪

♪ You give the kind of loving ♪

♪ Make a brother wanna come for more ♪

♪ And more she's the one I adore and that's why ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ 'Cause I need the love she gives to me ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ And she knows that we were meant to be ♪

♪ No one can do what you do ♪

♪ When you do what you're doing to me ♪

♪ And I can't believe can it be that it's me ♪

♪ That you're feeling ♪

♪ It's ecstasy ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ 'Cause I need the love she gives to me ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ And she knows that we were meant to be ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ 'Cause I need the love she gives to me ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ And she knows that we are meant to be ♪

♪ No one ♪

♪ No one can do what you do ♪

♪ When you do what you're doing to me ♪

♪ And I can't believe can it be that it's me ♪

♪ That you're feeling ♪

♪ It's ecstasy ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

♪ I can't let her go ♪

Key Grammar Structures

• ♪ I can't let her go ♪

  ➔ Modal verb + phrasal verb

  ➔ "can't" expresses inability; "let go" is a phrasal verb meaning 'release'.

• ♪ 'Cause I need the love she gives to me ♪

  ➔ Cause + relative clause

  ➔ "'Cause" = 'because' introduces reason; relative clause "she gives to me" modifies "love".

• ♪ Thought that I would lose my mind ♪

  ➔ Past tense with conditional

  ➔ "Thought" (past tense) + "would" (conditional) shows hypothetical past thought.

• ♪ You give the kind of loving make a brother wanna come for more ♪

  ➔ Causative + informal subjunctive

  ➔ "Make" (causative) + "wanna" (slang for 'want to') expresses desire caused by action.

• ♪ She's got me open all the time ♪

  ➔ Casual perfect aspect

  ➔ "She's got" colloquially = 'she has'; "open" (adjective) shows emotional state.

• ♪ No one can do what you do ♪

  ➔ General truth present

  ➔ Simple present "do" expresses universal truth/repeated actions.

• ♪ Can't believe can it be that it's me ♪

  ➔ Embedded question

  ➔ Embedded question "can it be" = 'is it possible' fused with statement.

• ♪ 'Cause it feels so right ♪

  ➔ Cause + intensifier

  ➔ Abbreviated cause "'Cause" supported by intensifier "so" emphasizing sensation.