By MICHAEL BAGINSKI/ It’s hard to believe that its been almost 20 years since Robert Plant and Alison Krauss first collaborated on the album “Raising Sand” (2007), uniquely pairing the Led Zeppelin icon with the bluegrass goddess icon (Union Station).
A mixture of folk, blues, country and Americana, the album earned the duo a Grammy and spawned an ongoing partnership that continues to this day, with occasional touring and another album, “Raise the Roof” in 2021.
One of the notable songs on that album was “Can’t Let Go,” a cover of a cover written by American singer-songwriter Randy Weeks, but popularized by Lucinda Williams, who earned a Grammy nomination for her version in 1998-99.
Plant and Krauss’s rendition reached No. 8 on the adult alternative chart and breathed new life into a great song by a great – though still unexpected – partnership.
Lyrics
Told you, baby, one more time
Don’t make me sit all alone and cry
Well, it’s over I, know it but I can’t let go
I’m like a fish out of water, a cat in a tree
You don’t even want to talk to me
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
He won’t take me back when I come around
Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m broken down like a train wreck
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
See I got a candle and it burns so bright
In my window every night
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
You don’t like to see me standin’ around
Feel like I been shot and didn’t fall down
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
He won’t take me back when I come around
Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m broken down like a train wreck
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
Turn off the trouble like you turn off a light
Went off and left me, it just ain’t right
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
Around every corner, something I see
Brings me right back how it used to be
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
He won’t take me back when I come around
Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m broken down like a train wreck
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
He won’t take me back when I come around
Says he’s sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I’m broken down like a train wreck
Well, it’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
It’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
It’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
It’s over, I know it but I can’t let go
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