Mariah Carey released her heartfelt ballad The Art Of Letting Go via Facebook on Monday.

The 43-year-old sings about letting go of past relationships, which brought nothing but negativity to her life. Along with the song's premiere, Carey also attached a special message to her fans.

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"This is such a personal record to me. I wrote the lyrics so that anyone and everyone could relate to them and hopefully release anything that they need to let go of that's holding them back or bringing them down," she wrote. "Thank you for sharing this experience with me!"

Carey recently sat down with CNN's Nischelle Turner and spoke about the meaning of her new single.

"There is an art to learning how to let go of things in your life, people in your life, things that are not good for you. Whatever the case may be," she explained. "As a songwriter I never like to be too totally specific because I like people to be able to make it about their own life experiences."

The mother of two also explained that the song is emotional and a definition of who she is.

"There's an emotion to it as you listen from the song to start to finish," she said about the single. "You can tell that it's me. If it's anybody who has ever met or who has been listening to my music over however long."

The Art Of Letting Go lyrics:

Verse 1:

I'm making a statement of my own opinion, just a brief little reminder to help myself remember, I no longer live in your dominion. You're just trifling, nothing more than a liability. Gotta lay all your possessions outside the kitchen window right now.

Chorus:

Letting go. Letting go ain't easy, no it's just exceedingly hurtful. Cause somebody you used to know, is flinging your world around and they watch as you're falling down.

Verse 2:

Evidently your words were merely lies, reverberating in my ears and the echo won't subside. There's deep, deep loss of hope and the anger burns in me. I hope you don't get no ideas about reuniting baby cause that's the last thing I truly need. Your audacity is too much to be believed so go to Mimi on your contacts, press delete.

Chorus:

Letting go ain't easy, no it's just exceedingly hurtful. Cause somebody you used to know, is flinging your world around and they watch as you're falling down.

Baby letting go, ain't easy, baby letting go, ain't easy.

Repeat chorus

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