I too have had to let the love of my life go due to circumstances beyond my control.... and while I hope we can find our way back to each other... even if we do not... I will never let her go... She is my world.
About 10 years ago I became very close to an amazing woman. She had me listen to this song one day, it was her way of trying to tell me something. Long story short we fell in love and I ended up hurting her very badly, actually I hurt both of us very badly, she fell in love with another and I never stopped loving her, I will forever be missing her. I will always love you Lippy Dragonfly and what we had together.
I have her Mirrorball cd and listen to it quite a lot. This song in particular is just so beautiful, lyrically and musically. And it too has a certain meaning for me.
This song makes me think of the one I can not have... My nemesis, Genesis. The unattainable, impossible and unfathomable lover. I can't honestly say I've ever needed someone this way... But I fight myself to the death trying to figure out how to let go. I don't know if I can... Or will ever.
After many years of a marriage that didn't work, I left. Four and a half years later, I met someone that I fell in love with (his soul and spirit ); someone I met Miam. We started e-mailing and we shared many interests, spirituality and on and on.
Even went beyond the friendship. Two months later, I found out he had been in a relationship for 4 years.
I have tried several times since that time to to be friends but it is just too darn hard. So, I have let go but do we ever really let go?
@karinashubaly1981 I understand. I was married for 7 years and divorced over 4 years now. I still don't know how to let to go. I am really sorry you got hurt. I know the pain. Sarah has gotten me through my heartbreak.
I have no one that I can communicate to how much I hurt inside. My wife and companion of 17 years, has been trying to get me to realize that I will never be enough for her, for nearly that entire time. I was diagnosed with m.s. 14 years ago and have been fighting it since before I met her. I cant keep being the person that holds her back. I've tried to console myself with some notion that I help her with caring and understanding,but it's a lie. I'm just a weight. One she shouldn't have to bear
Just got to know, that everything I have done was unnecessary. I was waiting for someone who lives very far away from me, and I believed he is coming back. He just told me, maybe it is not gonna work out, cuz he seems to move on, and he doesn't know about coming back anymore...
So "I have the sence to recogize, but I don't know how to let you go"
What's not to love about Sarah? I just wonder since she's a divorced mother of two if she will have the time or inspiration to compose songs as unique or compelling as this performance. What a beautiful voice and her presence at the instrument masterful. When she plays guitar with the capo at the sixth fret watch how effortlessly she changes chords while her vocal phrasing loses nothing in tone or meter. As unique and rare a musical talent as Sandy Denny or Richard Thompson. You are my angel S
Music is what you take from it. I just let the one person in this life I care for go because of circumstances beyond the control of either of us. As someone stoic and reserved, this song has made me weep effusively.
it seems that that she writes to give voice to feelings that lack a vocabulary. Not just by sung words but by the very cord and key that it is written in. the hunting quality of the musice imitates the pain that lingers and stays or even the afterglow of love and ecstasy. amazing this womans work is. :)
This song is absolutely beautiful and heart breaking at the same time. The line "And I have the sense to recognize that I don’t know how to let you go" is to true for words. Rest in Paradise, J
Having been in a cult for 30 years (Scientology) and escaped out in 2000---I lost **all*** of my 30 year "friends", as well as my then loving husband, of 27 years. Nothing has communicated how deeply this pain is better than this song, and Sarah singing it. Thank you, sweet being. Your wings have touched my heart.
@anonymootle Isn't it just THE Yummiest song evvvvvvvvvvvahhhh?? I love her. I adore this song. It SO
much speaks how this pain feels. :deeply shaken by the violence of existence--knowing I can't be with you, I
do what I have to do:. Oh yeah! As I've said forever: Music can get under walls, music can get to your heart in ways nothing else can. This woman does just that, for me. Thank you, Sarah :)
@ToryMagoo44 Thanks Tory! Keep up the good fight, you and Wise Beard Man are the idols to the sect of anon you associate with Feb 10th 2008 :) my idols :) x
@foxybox11 Thank you...........actually, it's been fantastic! People ALL around the world have helped me, and I've been able to help many, also. It's been THE most amazing journey I could ever imagine. Check out my YT site----it has many short videos explaining the route. Happy Sunday to all :)
@ToryMagoo44 It takes a lot of courage and strength to leave any cult. You will find new friends and people to love who will value those qualities. Take care of yourself and God bless you.
@ToryMagoo44 Glad you escaped, but I'm confused about how you could be taken by something as silly as Scientology. In any case, glad you were inspired by McLachlan.
This song gives me goose bumps! I have ALWAYS loved it....what a beautiful voice LIVE. This woman is REALLY a singer, unlike some I have heard live. Thank you for sharing! :)
Powerful song...healing, too. Listen to the cover of this song on Steve Hass's album "Traveler"--instrumental accompaniment and vocal delivery are unsurpassed!
@imissusomom I'm so sorry for your loss ... so very sorry. I have come to realize that in my pain and my loss - and in my suffering - I am the most alive. It is better to feel even pain than to feel nothing at all. May God Bless you and and comfort you.
I can hear a faint from her whispered, crystal clear voice, putting me into deep sleep. Hoping my emotional wounds heal. May almighty God bless McLachlan.
what does Self indulgent even mean? that she does what SHE wants on her songs? That she says what SHE wants in her songs? that she talks about what SHE wants and what SHE feels? That she writes about things that SHE has experienced or how things made HER feel. imagine that...............
this song describe a moment in my life right now that i am going through aftger 6 months of being away from the one i loved i can honestly say i dont know how to honestly tell them i dont know how to let go..
this song describes a rough time that im going through right now in my life and i cant tell the person after six months of being with out them that i dont know how to let them go....
Line…..”Ever moment but with aspirations of your soul”__________ Are you haunted by unrequited love? Are you trying to escape this desire???
I have an unconditional obsession that consumes me and sets me on fire…”I know I can’t be with you. I do what I have to do.” Sarah said it when I could not, “I don’t know how to let you go.” I may have sighed it in a dream.
This is this music that healed me through all of my break ups. Thank you Sarah for being there.
An angel walks among us..... Her name, Sarah….I would drown Sarah's epic songs my glass of vodka and cranberry juice anytime. “Do What You Have To Do”How many times has fate lead you through it? Yes that BS that we put up with ..called denial!!
Beautiful playing, and a soulful, haunting melody. Of all her slow tempo songs, this song and Angel are easily my two favorites. I especially love the added dynamics in her live performances, in particular the build and subsequent tempo change at 3:44 in this one.
What I'm going through now... This song has been on my mind for a few days... It's still fresh... Even though it hurts, it helps me get through this... pain. Thanks Sarah and thank you anne for posting this.
SHE IS AMAZING! i love her ! she's saying so much thing in her melodie! i love her, my fav signer! im 14 and i will listen to her all the rest of my life! ahaha
I never get tired of hearing this song. And one reason, besides the fact that it's so hauntingly beautiful, is that I can identify with the content so completely. sigh
Does anyone actually realize where the lyrics of this song come from? The song is actually a kind of ode to a stalker she once had. If anyone has read "Building a Mystery" there is a poem in there, written by this person. Read the words....this song is that person, once more, (i.e, Possession) with the words, again, taken right from his creation. My daughter explaine0d it as an honor to this person, a "siren's honor" to a victim. Now that, dear people, is living poetry and more....
Sarah's music is so soothing and full of love and forgiveness. I was sent into a tailspin after a breakup, it put me into a psychotic depression-I even accepted my death as payment for the pain I had been through. The lessons I learned resonate with every song on her album "Surfacing". I love her music as it isn't a reminder of my depression, but a reminder that I grew from the experience and became a stronger person.
Sarah-you are heaven sent and helped save my life.
When this song was new, I heard about a woman just about to have her first baby. Her husband went out to fly his single-engine plane. She said "I wish you wouldn't," but he did and crashed it and was killed. Somehow this song is tied to that woman in my mind, and I think of it as being sung for someone who is gone, permanently. "I know I can't be with you...." "I don't know how to let you go..." I think that makes it stronger than just a breakup song.
She is brillliant. Her song lyrics are poetry not just the redundant rhyme to just to rhyme BS so prevalent. Anyone who things she is too dramatic is out of touch with their own feelings. I'd rather be opened up to feel even pain than a human refrigerator. Ms. McLachlan is a git to humanity. Check out World on Fire and if you are not inspired and moved to do something POSITIVE you have problems.
I love you Sarah McLachan, I just love you! And these song is always my story in love... "I know I can't be with you, I do what I have to do, but I don't know how to let you go..."
I know that this song is somewhat dated in terms of the rest of her repertoire, and it's not as commercial... but I really wish she would play this at Lilith. I never got the chance to see her perform this in Mirrorball, but the effect it has had upon me is profound
Not only did she use the "lunatics" poetry for Possesion she also used it for this song-much of these words were part of another poem either shared with her, or used, three years late (1997)
we went to see her in concert, she came out and did a song with her opening act. After the concert, which was unbelievably great, everyone was streaming out the doors, and she came back, sat down at her piano and sang another song, all by herself, her and the piano. It showed me how much she loves what she does, and how passionate she is about her art. I just love her music, it's taken me thru some dark times.
I agree this song is amazing but so are some of her other works i have found and because of the work she puts into her soungs i have a high respect for this lady, it takes a lot of effort to truly make a good song work, To begin with u must start with the words tht flow and then compse the music tht goes into it not to menchion the effort and feeling tht ya get from the making of these songs and having them be wht they are today so i say kudos to u for this one
Some people say her music is too self-indulgent and perhaps dramatic. But her passion reveals something about life and she speaks to and for those of us with no musical voice of our own. "What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage, created you a monster, broken by the rule of love, ..."
How many of us have mistreated someone we love and now have to live with the painful memory. This song is dedicated to healing painful memories.
Also, how many people could express those same feelings in such a poetic way as, "What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage, created you a monster, broken by the rule of love, ..."
@ptlump well put... I agree... Sarah's music is beautiful and her voice is pure... gotta love an artist that has lived their own songs... puts their heart and soul into it as she does...
@ptlump Thank you for saying this. I agree. People that say that her music is "too self-indulgent" are selfish themselves because they want her to sing a song THEY themselves can relate to..they are looking out for them. I love her music because it is raw and real and its about personal experiences had or observed. And the reason why I relate is because it is so real.
@ptlump I have been lucky enough to be forgiven by THE ONE and now I dont know how I can live without her when she goes...she is now disabled and I wont go on long after her....I wasted so much time
@fesbahn A Queen yes and dramatic yes; but not often viewed the way around you have chosen to stand and look at it. Life is only a point of view, I enjoy mine you obviously enjoy yours.
Carla, I love you with all my heart please come back to me. I don't know how to let you go and never will I ever want to! I love you. Please forgive me!
A song you posters may like is "Where do you start" by the Bergmans. Sung by many people, I believe it has the finest, sweetest/saddest final verse in the whole world of songs.
wow... nyfxtrader... i know ur pain. my cat's r my children.. they're so much better than us. so forgiving. and the unconditional love they give. and the warm feeling we get when we r close to them... although they can't speak, they let us know how much it means to them that we brought them into our lives... n yes this song is sad n is all about the difficulties in letting go...
nice, have to love heart ache. it's what makes us alive and Sarah does it so well, thank you
Barbie92654 1 day ago
I too have had to let the love of my life go due to circumstances beyond my control.... and while I hope we can find our way back to each other... even if we do not... I will never let her go... She is my world.
JULIANBRACHFELD 3 days ago
Perfect talent
Prentis79 5 days ago
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timmyjimmytoo 5 days ago
love this women
Mr2pint 6 days ago
Angels must sing like her...she is amazing!
Cornwoman83 1 week ago
About 10 years ago I became very close to an amazing woman. She had me listen to this song one day, it was her way of trying to tell me something. Long story short we fell in love and I ended up hurting her very badly, actually I hurt both of us very badly, she fell in love with another and I never stopped loving her, I will forever be missing her. I will always love you Lippy Dragonfly and what we had together.
lovealippydragonfly 1 month ago
I have her Mirrorball cd and listen to it quite a lot. This song in particular is just so beautiful, lyrically and musically. And it too has a certain meaning for me.
racingirl1595 1 month ago
This song makes me think of the one I can not have... My nemesis, Genesis. The unattainable, impossible and unfathomable lover. I can't honestly say I've ever needed someone this way... But I fight myself to the death trying to figure out how to let go. I don't know if I can... Or will ever.
Sandrasboo 2 months ago
"Deep within i'm shakin by the violence of existing for only you"...........
danielhoutx 2 months ago
After many years of a marriage that didn't work, I left. Four and a half years later, I met someone that I fell in love with (his soul and spirit ); someone I met Miam. We started e-mailing and we shared many interests, spirituality and on and on.
Even went beyond the friendship. Two months later, I found out he had been in a relationship for 4 years.
I have tried several times since that time to to be friends but it is just too darn hard. So, I have let go but do we ever really let go?
karinashubaly1981 3 months ago
@karinashubaly1981 I understand. I was married for 7 years and divorced over 4 years now. I still don't know how to let to go. I am really sorry you got hurt. I know the pain. Sarah has gotten me through my heartbreak.
392azk1112 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sarah McLachlan
I'm hurting so much right now! I don't know if this song is helping or hurting me worse, but either way I love it!
Shondellita1980 3 months ago
Jules and Rod breathing another day and night...
Jadeiddia 3 months ago
LOVE YOU SARAH!!!
Akong7781 3 months ago
check out tabitha streets arms of an angel
kiits96 4 months ago
Hey i was wondering if you could set your videos to where they can be played on mobile phones? Thank you
GodfatherMudMafia04 4 months ago
I have no one that I can communicate to how much I hurt inside. My wife and companion of 17 years, has been trying to get me to realize that I will never be enough for her, for nearly that entire time. I was diagnosed with m.s. 14 years ago and have been fighting it since before I met her. I cant keep being the person that holds her back. I've tried to console myself with some notion that I help her with caring and understanding,but it's a lie. I'm just a weight. One she shouldn't have to bear
maninreno4 5 months ago 3
@maninreno4 you are a treasured human being...you matter. stary strong..we love you
onenuttertoo 5 months ago
@thelooperz44 Yeah especially because Amy Winehouse is no longer with us...
retwegtggeg 5 months ago
sorry lady gaga and amy winehouse, both bery talented, but both will never ever reach the stature of this woman
thelooperz44 6 months ago 5
god damn she is sexy
jrkb300 6 months ago 2
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@jrkb300 absolutely
paterp2 6 months ago
This song never fails to make me cry, thinking about the first woman I loved and still do. I miss you.
strangelotusdragon 6 months ago
brilliant is the 1st word that comes to mind
tnobbs13 6 months ago
Just got to know, that everything I have done was unnecessary. I was waiting for someone who lives very far away from me, and I believed he is coming back. He just told me, maybe it is not gonna work out, cuz he seems to move on, and he doesn't know about coming back anymore...
So "I have the sence to recogize, but I don't know how to let you go"
evyanny 6 months ago
Most underrated Sarah McLachlan song for sure!
enochjames 6 months ago
This song came on Pandora and made me think of My Dad..
punkrockmamaof3 7 months ago
one of the best song ever!!!!
tinydancer4224 7 months ago
What's not to love about Sarah? I just wonder since she's a divorced mother of two if she will have the time or inspiration to compose songs as unique or compelling as this performance. What a beautiful voice and her presence at the instrument masterful. When she plays guitar with the capo at the sixth fret watch how effortlessly she changes chords while her vocal phrasing loses nothing in tone or meter. As unique and rare a musical talent as Sandy Denny or Richard Thompson. You are my angel S
BayStateJoe 7 months ago
Amazingly beautiful song. A marvelous singer and just her piano. Not many singers sound this good.
kendarblue 7 months ago 2
Music is what you take from it. I just let the one person in this life I care for go because of circumstances beyond the control of either of us. As someone stoic and reserved, this song has made me weep effusively.
Sunrunnerster 8 months ago 27
@Sunrunnerster How very tragic.
montrealsilver 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sarah McLachlan
@Sunrunnerster
hugs <3
preparadox 2 months ago
it seems that that she writes to give voice to feelings that lack a vocabulary. Not just by sung words but by the very cord and key that it is written in. the hunting quality of the musice imitates the pain that lingers and stays or even the afterglow of love and ecstasy. amazing this womans work is. :)
dlblackmon 8 months ago 7
beautiful singer, beautiful woman x
rubiesandice 8 months ago in playlist Sarah McLachlan
This song is absolutely beautiful and heart breaking at the same time. The line "And I have the sense to recognize that I don’t know how to let you go" is to true for words. Rest in Paradise, J
JESSCAAAALOVES 8 months ago
my first love Giovanni,i will never forget you and i will always love you and never forget your face <3 forever love
sweetee1011 8 months ago
Any girls find her crazy attractive?
*swoon*
jellybean2475 8 months ago 2
I want to have her baby. I'm a dude as well. Wft.
canadianscot06 8 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs ever written and sung. This is a very personal song for me.
molokoid 9 months ago
Having been in a cult for 30 years (Scientology) and escaped out in 2000---I lost **all*** of my 30 year "friends", as well as my then loving husband, of 27 years. Nothing has communicated how deeply this pain is better than this song, and Sarah singing it. Thank you, sweet being. Your wings have touched my heart.
ToryMagoo44 9 months ago 40
@ToryMagoo44 Cute Tory. I came here from your latest video. I wanted to see the song you were speaking of. It's very good :)
anonymootle 9 months ago
@anonymootle Isn't it just THE Yummiest song evvvvvvvvvvvahhhh?? I love her. I adore this song. It SO
much speaks how this pain feels. :deeply shaken by the violence of existence--knowing I can't be with you, I
do what I have to do:. Oh yeah! As I've said forever: Music can get under walls, music can get to your heart in ways nothing else can. This woman does just that, for me. Thank you, Sarah :)
ToryMagoo44 8 months ago
@ToryMagoo44 Thanks Tory! Keep up the good fight, you and Wise Beard Man are the idols to the sect of anon you associate with Feb 10th 2008 :) my idols :) x
anonymootle 8 months ago
@ToryMagoo44 good job for escaping. it must have been very hard and very lonely. sorry ;(
foxybox11 8 months ago
@foxybox11 Thank you...........actually, it's been fantastic! People ALL around the world have helped me, and I've been able to help many, also. It's been THE most amazing journey I could ever imagine. Check out my YT site----it has many short videos explaining the route. Happy Sunday to all :)
ToryMagoo44 8 months ago
@ToryMagoo44 thats really great to hear :)
foxybox11 8 months ago
@ToryMagoo44 you're very luck for escaping, it's not easy.
bethinbloom 8 months ago
@ToryMagoo44 It takes a lot of courage and strength to leave any cult. You will find new friends and people to love who will value those qualities. Take care of yourself and God bless you.
patty7beth 4 months ago
@ToryMagoo44 Glad you escaped, but I'm confused about how you could be taken by something as silly as Scientology. In any case, glad you were inspired by McLachlan.
everythingafter 3 months ago
This song gives me goose bumps! I have ALWAYS loved it....what a beautiful voice LIVE. This woman is REALLY a singer, unlike some I have heard live. Thank you for sharing! :)
stacabtch 9 months ago 4
Powerful song...healing, too. Listen to the cover of this song on Steve Hass's album "Traveler"--instrumental accompaniment and vocal delivery are unsurpassed!
Wavewolfaroha 9 months ago
What voice!
What a piano!
Eliotcor 9 months ago 2
KOCHAM TO!
Hasiurek 10 months ago
Stunning lyrics..... "Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you" WOW
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i listen to this song for days after my husband died and i still after 12 years can still feel the pain of loosing him.......
imissusomom 10 months ago
i listen to this song for days after my husband died and i still after 12 years can still feel the pain of loosing him.......
imissusomom 10 months ago 8
@imissusomom I'm so sorry for your loss ... so very sorry. I have come to realize that in my pain and my loss - and in my suffering - I am the most alive. It is better to feel even pain than to feel nothing at all. May God Bless you and and comfort you.
ptlump 9 months ago
Great song.
lucy642630 10 months ago
I can hear a faint from her whispered, crystal clear voice, putting me into deep sleep. Hoping my emotional wounds heal. May almighty God bless McLachlan.
TheDrkKnght1988 10 months ago
hermosa canciooooooooooooon
9sheiky 10 months ago
Music that heals the soul.
newbievamp2005 10 months ago
Sarah is a Goddess....
snavarro228 10 months ago
@ptlump u couldnt have said it any better :)
Mrposton101 11 months ago
I hope this is part of my next life!
miway46 11 months ago
Sarah is my obsession.
garebear1015 11 months ago
My very favorite EVER
Tinakoch66 11 months ago
one of my favourite songs..she sings from her heart..i adore her..<3
Ms0987123456 1 year ago
@Ms0987123456 si lo mismo me pasa a mi, proyecya su alma en cada cancion, maravilloosa!!!!!
9sheiky 10 months ago
I think this is one of the most beautiful and honest songs she's ever made. I love listening to it every time it comes one.
CollisionStar 1 year ago
This is My life....This is excatly how i feel an have felt...... wonders if the pain will ever go away...."Trying to escape this desire".... </3
gabysgrl4eva 1 year ago
She's gotten though me the roughest parts of my life. Thank you. You save my life, Sarah.
MrsDoomBunny 1 year ago
imdádom,beutiful
pancsi89 1 year ago
i could sit all night long and listen to Sarah on her Piano, she is amazing!
mikemik712 1 year ago
what does Self indulgent even mean? that she does what SHE wants on her songs? That she says what SHE wants in her songs? that she talks about what SHE wants and what SHE feels? That she writes about things that SHE has experienced or how things made HER feel. imagine that...............
shadowsong1 1 year ago
Beautiful.
asdfkie 1 year ago
Pra mim as vozes da Sarah McLachlan e a da Amy Lee (Evanescence) são as mais deliciosas de se ouvir!!! São indescritíveis!!!
britoaugusto 1 year ago
this song describe a moment in my life right now that i am going through aftger 6 months of being away from the one i loved i can honestly say i dont know how to honestly tell them i dont know how to let go..
CoolCatCase 1 year ago
this song describes a rough time that im going through right now in my life and i cant tell the person after six months of being with out them that i dont know how to let them go....
CoolCatCase 1 year ago
I am in the process of reconciliation with my wife and this is dead-on where we are at now; her rage and my regret as we live apart form each other.
docwatson223 1 year ago
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docwatson223 1 year ago
Glorious, Gorgeous Perfection..
bringitonhome06 1 year ago
Line…..”Ever moment but with aspirations of your soul”__________ Are you haunted by unrequited love? Are you trying to escape this desire???
I have an unconditional obsession that consumes me and sets me on fire…”I know I can’t be with you. I do what I have to do.” Sarah said it when I could not, “I don’t know how to let you go.” I may have sighed it in a dream.
This is this music that healed me through all of my break ups. Thank you Sarah for being there.
BlackSwan254 1 year ago
Her voice is impeccably immaculate….
An angel walks among us..... Her name, Sarah….I would drown Sarah's epic songs my glass of vodka and cranberry juice anytime. “Do What You Have To Do”How many times has fate lead you through it? Yes that BS that we put up with ..called denial!!
BlackSwan254 1 year ago
@BlackSwan254
Of course her voice is immaculate! That song brings chills to my spine and tears to my eyes. I love that song...
"There are strings in the human heart that better not be vibrated."- Charles Dickens
TheDrkKnght1988 10 months ago
Anyone can relate her to her music because she expresses real feelings. This song breaks my heart.
dayofjen 1 year ago
Beautifully haunting... Always brings to my eyes...one of sarah's most epic albums and my fav song.love her!!!
katakchomel84 1 year ago
some times its best to let go before it kills you!! amazing songs
kalajay1 1 year ago
Beautiful playing, and a soulful, haunting melody. Of all her slow tempo songs, this song and Angel are easily my two favorites. I especially love the added dynamics in her live performances, in particular the build and subsequent tempo change at 3:44 in this one.
yikblow 1 year ago
Great song -for you Tenor.............Di
diana80458 1 year ago
Love this song! :)
Anaxenite 1 year ago
Quite simply one of the most hauntingly beautiful sad songs ever!
lm011070 1 year ago
What I'm going through now... This song has been on my mind for a few days... It's still fresh... Even though it hurts, it helps me get through this... pain. Thanks Sarah and thank you anne for posting this.
pianomist 1 year ago
Luv it!
Luv it!!
Luv it!!!
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Solange8321 1 year ago
Beautiful Sarah
giant00 1 year ago
SHE IS AMAZING! i love her ! she's saying so much thing in her melodie! i love her, my fav signer! im 14 and i will listen to her all the rest of my life! ahaha
MmeSara 1 year ago
I never get tired of hearing this song. And one reason, besides the fact that it's so hauntingly beautiful, is that I can identify with the content so completely. sigh
maggarita2019 1 year ago
i absolutely love her! :) she is one of the very few singers who sound the same on cd and live, and don't lipsync
morg942212 1 year ago
Does anyone actually realize where the lyrics of this song come from? The song is actually a kind of ode to a stalker she once had. If anyone has read "Building a Mystery" there is a poem in there, written by this person. Read the words....this song is that person, once more, (i.e, Possession) with the words, again, taken right from his creation. My daughter explaine0d it as an honor to this person, a "siren's honor" to a victim. Now that, dear people, is living poetry and more....
dag681 1 year ago
@dag681 thats actually the song possession...
michiru52384 1 year ago
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dag681 1 year ago
wow. passion
mradsr 1 year ago
Sarah's music is so soothing and full of love and forgiveness. I was sent into a tailspin after a breakup, it put me into a psychotic depression-I even accepted my death as payment for the pain I had been through. The lessons I learned resonate with every song on her album "Surfacing". I love her music as it isn't a reminder of my depression, but a reminder that I grew from the experience and became a stronger person.
Sarah-you are heaven sent and helped save my life.
gravelandgrain100 1 year ago 2
this song tell the story of my christian :(
kristiededecker 1 year ago
I love sarah M
hashiriya1000 1 year ago
I just love this track!!!!
Listen to the lyrics...
yvonneong32 1 year ago
It's the way she sings it and means it with every inch of her soul that helps me connect. Am lifted.
videokill75 1 year ago
This song is so much better when she's doing it live.. So real!
LilleBitteMille 1 year ago
Still gives me chills - could Sarah have been sent from Heaven?
kt3399 1 year ago 2
When this song was new, I heard about a woman just about to have her first baby. Her husband went out to fly his single-engine plane. She said "I wish you wouldn't," but he did and crashed it and was killed. Somehow this song is tied to that woman in my mind, and I think of it as being sung for someone who is gone, permanently. "I know I can't be with you...." "I don't know how to let you go..." I think that makes it stronger than just a breakup song.
Kimfosterga 1 year ago 2
wow @ 3:51
law4illusion 1 year ago
She is brillliant. Her song lyrics are poetry not just the redundant rhyme to just to rhyme BS so prevalent. Anyone who things she is too dramatic is out of touch with their own feelings. I'd rather be opened up to feel even pain than a human refrigerator. Ms. McLachlan is a git to humanity. Check out World on Fire and if you are not inspired and moved to do something POSITIVE you have problems.
amatullahjr 1 year ago 2
i love here for the real emotion she puts in her music **
darkride68 1 year ago
What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage
Created you a monster, broken by the rules of love
Every moment marked with apparitions of your soul
I’m ever swiftly moving trying to escape this desire
The yearning to be near you, I do what I have to do
But I have the sense to recognize that I don’t know how to let you go
Deep within I’m shaken by the violence of existing for only you
I know I can’t be with you, I do what I have to do...
i don't know how to let you go
Marixpress2 1 year ago
My favorite song from sarah
bigjun913 1 year ago
she is soooo good live! She is perfect!
jessicajolene 1 year ago
powerful, heart ravaging, my soul is aching, perfect song. thx SM
leoca 1 year ago
I love you Sarah McLachan, I just love you! And these song is always my story in love... "I know I can't be with you, I do what I have to do, but I don't know how to let you go..."
Lauracruzher 1 year ago
I love this
Racine93 1 year ago
how I felt this song with my man broke up with
Sarah knows me
sjllow1 1 year ago
I don't know how to let you go.
herblackwings1 1 year ago
I know that this song is somewhat dated in terms of the rest of her repertoire, and it's not as commercial... but I really wish she would play this at Lilith. I never got the chance to see her perform this in Mirrorball, but the effect it has had upon me is profound
tobybunny87 1 year ago
what an incredible artist ! words cant describe how talented she is.
222billp 1 year ago
Not only did she use the "lunatics" poetry for Possesion she also used it for this song-much of these words were part of another poem either shared with her, or used, three years late (1997)
Shanta681 1 year ago
we went to see her in concert, she came out and did a song with her opening act. After the concert, which was unbelievably great, everyone was streaming out the doors, and she came back, sat down at her piano and sang another song, all by herself, her and the piano. It showed me how much she loves what she does, and how passionate she is about her art. I just love her music, it's taken me thru some dark times.
foxfire06320 1 year ago 2
11;11
RynCharlot 1 year ago
I agree this song is amazing but so are some of her other works i have found and because of the work she puts into her soungs i have a high respect for this lady, it takes a lot of effort to truly make a good song work, To begin with u must start with the words tht flow and then compse the music tht goes into it not to menchion the effort and feeling tht ya get from the making of these songs and having them be wht they are today so i say kudos to u for this one
maryannreeves15 1 year ago
A great great song!!
36midnight 1 year ago
Some people say her music is too self-indulgent and perhaps dramatic. But her passion reveals something about life and she speaks to and for those of us with no musical voice of our own. "What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage, created you a monster, broken by the rule of love, ..."
How many of us have mistreated someone we love and now have to live with the painful memory. This song is dedicated to healing painful memories.
Thank you Sarah.
ptlump 1 year ago 104
Couldn't agree more!!
36midnight 1 year ago
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36midnight 1 year ago
Also, how many people could express those same feelings in such a poetic way as, "What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage, created you a monster, broken by the rule of love, ..."
That takes talent and passion.
PoxyBear 1 year ago 2
@ptlump well put... I agree... Sarah's music is beautiful and her voice is pure... gotta love an artist that has lived their own songs... puts their heart and soul into it as she does...
DERedhead65 1 year ago
@ptlump Thank you for saying this. I agree. People that say that her music is "too self-indulgent" are selfish themselves because they want her to sing a song THEY themselves can relate to..they are looking out for them. I love her music because it is raw and real and its about personal experiences had or observed. And the reason why I relate is because it is so real.
SoulMusic123 1 year ago
@ptlump I have been lucky enough to be forgiven by THE ONE and now I dont know how I can live without her when she goes...she is now disabled and I wont go on long after her....I wasted so much time
Xoodan 1 year ago
@ptlump I agree with you ............,painful memories my entire life
caryz100 1 year ago
Well said..
stacieizzy 1 year ago
Wow. Anyone know where to the sheet music for this?
fizziksgeek 1 year ago
I love this song, Sarah McLachlan has such a lovely voice.
11967lovepunk 1 year ago
J'aime tellement ! Magnifique.
aurore987987 2 years ago 3
Quite simply the most heartfelt song to touch me. Beautiful :)
dayday8421 2 years ago 28
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drama queen.
fesbahn 2 years ago
@fesbahn A Queen yes and dramatic yes; but not often viewed the way around you have chosen to stand and look at it. Life is only a point of view, I enjoy mine you obviously enjoy yours.
Honeysucklebommie 2 years ago
I love her style :)
Coolpleck 2 years ago 3
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PunkDollie92 2 years ago
i'm prayin for you snazinhouston that she comes back.
timothybuilt 2 years ago
i actually learned to play this once...
what an awesome piece of music, even if it is very tori amos derivative...or fragmented...
thank god all great music comes from somewhere else..
sara is sort of the cat stevens of the states...
how can god put so much talent into one person... it defies not only imagination but also gravity
bravo
douglas
douglassmcann 2 years ago
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PunkDollie92 2 years ago
shet very sexy, i love her teeth
1dogballs 2 years ago
creepy
oehieze 2 years ago
shes hot sexy teeth
1dogballs 2 years ago
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PunkDollie92 2 years ago
I love only you Carla I always have and I always will, God as my witness. I love you forever.
snazinhouston 2 years ago
Carla, I love you with all my heart please come back to me. I don't know how to let you go and never will I ever want to! I love you. Please forgive me!
snazinhouston 2 years ago 3
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PunkDollie92 2 years ago
tHe Best <3
Renatorihanna2009 2 years ago
I love this song it touches me deep in my soul.i miss you lori R.I.P.
love2xena 2 years ago
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PunkDollie92 2 years ago
ever so taken by this women, breath taken and beutifull she is
dascooker 2 years ago
So sad, so lovely,
& yet it tears me up every time I play it.
35, mostly good, married years & it ends. It could have been patched up.
After 4 years I have to let it go & move on.
anagrx867 2 years ago
It's so beautiful and sadly honest, making it probably the worst "get over your break up" song ever.
bigmouthstrikespain 2 years ago 6
It's been two years since my gal died and I don't know how to let her go. I really should stop listening to this song. It just breaks me apart
davidhyperion 2 years ago 5
I've always done the same thing with "Angel," since my Grandpa died. You just never get over some things.
KingJeffrey1st 2 years ago 3
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clowdhart 2 years ago
too beautiful.
gaberlunzie 2 years ago 2
i miss u babee..
cohenzita 2 years ago
perfect lyrics! "i'm shaken by the violence in existing for only you"......i wish i wrote that
cpta752 2 years ago 3
maybe the best song ever written.. imo
SarahNDittmann 2 years ago 4
A song you posters may like is "Where do you start" by the Bergmans. Sung by many people, I believe it has the finest, sweetest/saddest final verse in the whole world of songs.
jcisbell 2 years ago
...and why I bring it up here is, I love Sarah, and this song I describe is like harmony to hers.
jcisbell 2 years ago
she is incredible - chills watching this
Anaconda801 2 years ago 3
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carobcoolyn 2 years ago
Listened to this a few times in tears whilst holding my old cat who was dying...... so tough.
nyfxtrader 2 years ago 4
wow... nyfxtrader... i know ur pain. my cat's r my children.. they're so much better than us. so forgiving. and the unconditional love they give. and the warm feeling we get when we r close to them... although they can't speak, they let us know how much it means to them that we brought them into our lives... n yes this song is sad n is all about the difficulties in letting go...