Let It Go

"Let It Go" (レット・イット・ゴー 〜ありのままで〜) is a song featured in Kingdom Hearts III. It is sung by Elsa, queen of Arendelle, as an expression of her newfound feeling of freedom after revealing her ice powers that she had kept hidden for so long.

The song, composed by husband-and-wife song writing team and, and performed in English by  and in Japanese by , originated from Disney's 2013 animated feature film . It won the in 2014. The version used in Kingdom Hearts III was lifted directly from the movie, and used in an almost shot-for-shot pre-rendered recreation of the film's sequence.

Kingdom Hearts III

 * Arendelle: "The Ice Palace"

Lyrics
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English lyrics

 * The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
 * Not a footprint to be seen
 * A kingdom of isolation
 * And it looks like I'm the queen
 * The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
 * Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried
 * Don't let them in, don't let them see
 * Be the good girl you always have to be
 * Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
 * Well, now they know


 * Let it go, let it go
 * Can't hold it back anymore
 * Let it go, let it go
 * Turn away and slam the door
 * I don't care
 * What they're going to say
 * Let the storm rage on
 * The cold never bothered me anyway


 * It's funny how some distance
 * Makes everything seem small
 * And the fears that once controlled me
 * Can't get to me at all
 * It's time to see what I can do
 * To test the limits and break through
 * No right, no wrong, no rules for me
 * I'm free


 * Let it go, let it go
 * I am one with the wind and sky
 * Let it go, let it go
 * You'll never see me cry
 * Here I stand and here I'll stay
 * Let the storm rage on


 * My power flurries through the air into the ground
 * My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
 * And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
 * I'm never going back, the past is in the past


 * Let it go, let it go
 * And I'll rise like the break of dawn
 * Let it go, let it go
 * That perfect girl is gone
 * Here I stand in the light of day
 * Let the storm rage on
 * The cold never bothered me anyway


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Japanese rōmaji lyrics

 * furihajimeta yuki ha
 * ashiato keshite
 * masshiro na sekai ni
 * hitori no watashi
 * kaze ga kokoro ni sasayaku no
 * kono mama ja dame nan da to
 * tomadoi kizutsuki
 * dare nimo uchiakezu ni
 * nayandeta sore mo mou
 * yameyou


 * ari no mama no
 * sugata miseru no yo
 * ari no mama no
 * jibun ni naru no
 * nanimo kowakunai
 * kaze yo fuke
 * sukoshi mo samukunai wa


 * nayandeta koto ga
 * uso mitai ne
 * datte mou jiyuu yo
 * nandemo dekiru
 * dokomade yareru ka
 * jibun wo tameshitai no
 * sou yo kawaru no yo
 * watashi


 * ari no mama de
 * sora he kaze ni notte
 * ari no mama de
 * tobidashitemiru no
 * nidoto namida ha
 * nagasanai wa


 * tsumetaku daichi wo tsutsumikomi
 * takaku maiagaru omoi egaite
 * hanasaku koori no kesshou no youni
 * kagayaiteitai mou kimeta no


 * kore de ii no
 * jibun wo suki ni natte
 * kore de ii no
 * jibun shinjite
 * hikari abinagara
 * arukidasou
 * sukoshi mo samukunai wa


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Trivia

 * The in-game recreation of the Let It Go sequence carries over an animation error that was present in the original movie: when Elsa lets her hair down and drapes her braid over the front of her shoulder, it appears to phase through her shoulder entirely. This was intentionally retained in the movie by the animators, as the complexity of her rig was such that the alternative option would have distorted her braid. The game version instead obscures the error by changing the camera angle at that moment.
 * There is a single frame rendering error which displays "Arnold" when Elsa says "what they're going to say".