Do What You Have To Do By Sarah McLachlan

[Wehawk100]

Psychic Vampires don't get to ask for forgiveness.....thank the goddess I am getting old....almost over.

[treeonice]

My ex-boyfriend of two years is an emotional wreck. I tried to help him. As months went by, I understood that helping him was a task I was not skilled enough to complete. He's going to therapy and trying to heal, but I was overcome with stress, because I couldn't do anything and I was afraid I was holding him back. It started to get to the point where I was going through the motions, occasionally lashing out. I broke it off, got back, and broke up again. Now I want to go back, what should I do?

[Valtitude]

A beloved ... gone forever.

Last song from made for television movie "Bailey's Mistake". (Linda Hamilton)

[plansforus]

A glowing ember burning hot, and burning slow... lyrically this might be the best ballad ever written.

[leahcorin30]

I lost my 14 month old in march 2007 from unknown natural causes in her sleep during a nap. I feel your pain rabbit151 

[dasfadsful]

It reminds me of someone I fell in love with, but will never see again.

[LilTjady]

I have the sense to recognize, that I dont know how to let you go <3

[baybeelov]

dreams that never come true indeed..:-( I don't know how to let you go. I do what I have to do. Yearning to be near you. I have a sense to recognize. Not sure I could have said it better myself. Praying for answers to get over it and get thru it and find a reason why it all happened to begin with.

[Garrettkatey]

Good bye Kateyboo

[GurnhillS]

Beautiful this song is really helping me through some hard times..even though its heartbreaking i can relate to every word in this song..

I dont know how to let you go..

[wyominggirl12]

wow i'm crying you know if i could listen two her all the time then i would

[shelibeli40]

What a beautifully heartbreaking song. I'm pretty sure every woman on this planet can relate in some way. I've cried my eyes out listening to this a few times. How can something so depressing be so beautiful at the same time?

[ccpsj]

"Beautifully heartbreaking song" is exactly right! I'm crying now listening to it.

[blootulips]

i have always loved sarah mclachlan's music.. sad but it eases my mind.

[Mshobley]

This song got me through some really tough times in my life. Thanks, Sarah.

[MystSilverDragon]

I do what I have to Do (

[MystSilverDragon]

I have the sense to recognise, that.........

yes

[mirrurobam]

beautiful song... heartbreaking really...

[KaybeeRetro]

Sarah McLachlan is an angel, her voice is so pure and emotive <3

[neytjiepooh]

this is the perfect son for New Moon from stephenie Meyer!

[casandra108]

mmm it reminds me dreams hat never came true

[mlc2005]

"Im ever swiftly moving, trying to escape this desire." Ahhhh classic, that brings back so many memories.

[mlc2005]

This is one of the most moving songs ever!

[Ibantar]

Oh yeah!!! 200% correct!! Those strings and upright bass wraps around the piano in a most beautiful way!!!

[getachewe]

i don't really know how to let u go, i tried but ya, i will love u and i don't wanna stop loving u.......even though u brok my heart and showed me what a broken heart looks like, and make me depressed. i couldn't love anyone cuz u hurted me.... but again i still love u

[girl241982]

Kevin I will never let you go; I will never be the same, because now I am a sister with no siblings.

DON'T DRINK & DRIVE!

[christie420p]

I'm so sorry for your loss I can feel your pain this song reminds me of my son jacob who should 18 on dec. 20th i wish i could say it gets better honestly you just learn to live with it and he is always with you he's your angel now please take care you are in my thoughts

[irishberry6]

@girl241982 I am so sorry. :( I couldnt imagine life without my 3 sisters....I hope that you're able to handle each day, and find hope and strength in something beautiful....

[monkeyboy1971]

This song reminds me of my ex wife, and the horrific grief I went through after we divorced. It had to be done, but I still miss the woman that I loved for so long. When I hear "I don't know how to let you go"..it conjours memories of the sweet, loving, woman and best friend that I knew for 20 years....

Sarah is a beautiful artist and her live performances are spell-binding. Go see her if you ever get a chance.

[christie420p]

Jacob it will be 11yrs on the 28 and i still cant except your gone you should be 18 this year i miss you my heart is breaking it has not gotten any easier.i love you mommy

[KyleDriftwood]

Hang in there sweetheart

[treg1980]

Your comment breaks my heart. I have to let my dog go tomorrow and it hurts so much...

I wish you all the best. Your son is with you, always!!

[nickkeeling]

Thank you so much for sharing such a personal, moving and deeply heartfelt moment with us. You are clearly a wonderful mommy and Jacob was lucky to spend those few years with you and you with Jacob. You have given so much from your comments to others having had something so precious taken from you. My deepest thoughts and Love are with you both now and forever - I am in tears, and I can't even scratch the surface of your loss and your love. Much love to you both...nkx

[funkypoop123]

what's this song about?

[KyleDriftwood]

If you can't figure what this song is about, then you never lost anything you loved -- including yourself. Sorry, but it's the truth.

[funkypoop123]

lol ok, but it's not that I couldn't figure it out. I was just to lazy to. xD

[KyleDriftwood]

No worries

[chckhurley]

I hate you so much but i can't stop loving you and i hate it

[SarcasmPS]

Love this! Thank you!

[him00her]

I cry every time I hear this song

[matti76ftw]

I know I can't be with you

I do what I have to do

That's perfect - I've been in unrequited love for 7 years, haven't even seen or heard from her for 5 of those. It's never going away...

[moo69lover]

i miss you alison. rest in peace<3

[mizzclawdy]

i still love you

[MystSilverDragon]

You do what you have to do..........

[Mystwicca]

Beautiful and such an honest emotional song

[awsumaty]

this song probably doesnt have a single bad comment

[DIVA1430]

this is such a beautiful song, its so deep and meaningful, I love this song!

[sugamma2]

these songs bring back so manny memories by her of the 90's. I was and still am one young black sista who love this woman.....sarah forever...

[redundantjoker101]

this song always makes me cry but i love it so much! she has such an amazing voice.

[stevegina2007]

wow that makes me want to cry...:(

[MystSilverDragon]

Such a Beautiful Song :)

-Sarah Rocks

[thotel222]

I love this song !!

[Moodath]

Between "I Love You" and this song, it pretty much sums it all up. <3 both of them, nothing makes me hurt as much as these songs do. Sometimes thats a good thing.

[deathofbarney]

I know what you mean... I am makeing a playlist right now of songs like this...

[pomm1234]

have you still got that playlist, i would love to listen to it:) thankyou

[JL200727]

Great song!

[Zoyuz07]

mi ex send me this song and claimed that was hers....lier well dont know if she sings like she saids but she sent me this song suposelly her by the name of "I dot know how to let you go" well good try..

[xwithxlovex3]

i love this song so much. whenever i hear it i literally start crying! a girl at my dance company just got a job dancing in disney, and shes laeving this christmas. this is the last solo song she had with our company, which is why i cry. i'll never forget her.

[CHORYPAO]

the passing of someone

[andiwillbehere]

Once again, McLachlan has captivated us again.

[viewpoints3]

Sarah..beautiful..."I don't know how to let you go." I also cannot say what this means to me..so much.viewpoints3

[darladeaton54]

This song is so special to me. I heard it today for the first time after my 25 year old son called me and told me about it. I lost my husband 2 & 1/2 years ago and just lately have attempted to venture out into the dating world at the age of 54. Well, I fell in love the first thing with a guy I've known since I was 13 and of course he broke my heart so I do what I have to do. I still love him! And, no, I don't know how to let him go...

[farbenfroh12]

i wish you all the best.please-look into the future!dont cry so much more.your husband will you see lucky,not sad evrytime.life now your own life!i wish you fortune,power and energie!!

[nfulch]

This song is so profound to those of us who love someone we can never have. It touches me to the core.

[gjanie]

My thougths exactly.

[CHORYPAO]

I know what you mean i was inlove with someone that i could not be with but the tables turn many ways a few month later we met again he was jus separated and now we are 1 year in july happily married and loking to have a baby

[JudasRemains]

So...you mean you're happily married until he gets bored and decides to find a younger, better version of you? What a stable basis for a relationship, a man's inability to understand what the vows he took meant. Wish you all the best alimony in the world, Chuckles.

[Navilian]

wow thats awesome!!!

[katesu1979]

This is beautiful! I just thought you might like to know, it is "rule of law" not "rule of love"

Very nicely done though. I love this song.

[kellyaloha98]

this has put words to the song of my heart - I don't know how to let you go - the yearing to be near you - I do what I have to do - I know I can't be with you - I do what I have to do.

Thank you for the beautiful video post.

[Matt123ttam]

this song is incredible and so is the video. cant even tell you what this means to me. its just what i needed

[gerard19790]

magic

[apfish222]

Best thing to come out of Canada since Molson... and that's about it!!!

[frankinbolton]

Molson actually comes out of Belgium now I think...or maybe it's from the US LOL! (Not sure there are any CDN beers left outside of the micro breweries....Sleeman is from Japan now...GAG!) This tune is the deepest reflection of yearning you'll ever hear though.

[frankinbolton]

Cry in your beer stuff...whatever nationality ;)'

[MattTaylor1981]

Better than molson in my opinion. I'm a dag fan. (newcastle!)

[iljmad]

beautiful song and video!

[wwwowzer4]

She has SooOoo many good songs..but this is one of her best..beautiful!

[oucutiern]

one of my favorite songs ever. She's magical!

[pimmsRULES666]

does she play piano as well?

v gd song

[Sinea01]

Yes and very well...

[no1narutofanzz]

go listen to her live performances, especially the one on this song - you'll see not only her fantastic vocals, but her amazing piano playing :)

[pimmsRULES666]

does she play piano as well?

v gd song

[My42Cents]

She is so incredibly talented. And can you believe when she first started out, nobody she worked for trusted that she'd be able to make beautiful lyrics on her own?

She makes me so proud to be Canadian!

[casandra108]

life is so dear...and we are not living on earth for more than 200 years more...we most love as much as we can with all our heart and honesty and remember the good times a themost precious tresious

[ShadowDanzer]

One of the most beautiflly written pieces ever.

My favorite line:

"Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you."

[sweetsayaka16]

That's my favorite line as well...

[rasta0117]

One of my best friends died in 2000 I couldnt deal with it and I just happened to put in this cd and it told me what I needed to do that I dont know how to let him go and there isnt a day that I dont think about him

RIP Earl

[belleke18]

I feel the same way, my friend died in 2004 and 11 months later my best friend died, it was and still is really hard + a year later my uncle died and a couple of months later my neighbor his son died, I knew him well

This just shows, that the world isn't fair

RIP: Ellen, Sarah, Roger, Jan and Heath

[rasta0117]

You know when you think you have had it bad then I see this... I am so sorry for your losses it must have been terrible for you.

2000 was my bad year Earl passed suicide which even made it harder, my Father passed & 2 wks after that I had to euthanize my 1 yr old kitten... Thnx again for sharing with Earl there are still so many unanswered questions with his death it makes my closure almost impossible and he had called that morning 2/29/00 at 3am at noon I found out he had shot himself.. PEACE

[happyjaxs]

Great song with her and a piano. It is when things are there simpless they are thier Greatest.

[jjdelasheras]

I love Sarah, her voice is amazing.

[Judelkis]

I'll do what I have to do...."You do what you have to do." But one thing stands tall..... "I don't know how to let you go!" Wilson Polanco & Mildred Nunez

[shaimaus]

Beautiful video...thank you

[SerenafromLaBrea]

this song reminds me of the book NEW MOON by Stephenie Meyer, of when Edward leaves! its so sad

[noname2342002]

i am sorry rabbit151 i meant to reply to your comment but i hit spam instead i wanted to say i was sorry for your loss nothing compares to losing a child my heart goes out to you

[rabbit151]

My two year old daughter passed away this year.l We played this song and "angel" at her funeral.I never thought the heart could feel so much pain. This song is both beautiful and heart breaking to me.

[kaydawn433]

I am very sorry for your lose. Noone should have to go thru that kind of pain. As a mother of a 4 year old I cannot imagine the lose you are going thru. My heart goes out to you and I will be sure to keep you in my thoughts and prayers. bless you honey! -Kayla

[tabinutza]

@rabbit151 you've just made me cry today... :(

i'm so sorry about your little angel...

[texkin]

..'when you come to the end of your rainbow..

dont feel unlucky if you find nothing?..sure enough when the sun shines..the rain goes away

& you get another chance to find your pot of

gold.!?..never give it up.!!.PEACE.

..........MERRY XMAS...HAPPY 2008.............

[zenzoon87]

Such a beautiful song!!!

I've been looking everywhere for the instrumental version of this but I can't find it. My sister would love to sing it.

[bloodraven7]

wonderful

[kd7267]

...the yearning to be near you...

[danemaniac]

Imagine someone feeling that way about you! My day to find my soulmate is coming. I just know,someday before I die, I will find him. Not a sick, codependent relationship, but a pure, healthy love.

[kd7267]

imagine feeling that way about someone and he feels that way about you...yet you are both stuck with someone else...you do what you have to do to be together...and you don't know how to let go...

I hope you do find a pure, healthy love with your soulmate...

[StormyReins]

It is heart wrenching, gut wrenching.... bittersweet, words cannot describe.

[KyleDriftwood]

This is the first song that I can honestly say, made me cry when it was released -- and I'm a guy!

[danemaniac]

Absolutely NOTHING wrong with that! It reaches deep into our core and touches raw nerve that we can all relate to. I cried like a baby the first time I heard it - and being the masochist I am, I listened to it a thousand times after that. hehe

[ValrieW]

This song has spoken to me for years, but never more than it has tonight. My husband left me and our two small children around this time last year. There is a part of me that is so glad he is gone, and I have even moved on and have a boyfriend. But I find myself still giving in to his every whim. And apparently I just don't know how to completely let him go. I thought I had. Thanks for posting it.

[ajpearson6]

I am truly at a loss for words. A friend of mine just went through a miscarriage and this song was her soul. It fits her. it fits all of us at one point in our lives. i am bawling like a baby right now lol...thanks for making this video. it is simplly beautiful....

[amandacidri]

the knowledge of existing for someone else. what is it like?

[jessLR29]

This is the perfect song fo a very good friend of mine who I adore. I found out he might be moving away, I want to tell him that I would do anything for him except that I Dont Know How To Let Him Go.

[HollyfromNJ]

nice, simple video, with nice, simple version of this song. sarah's face tends to contort when she sings(probably because she sings with incredible heart and soul), and it's nice to see a vid. that lets the words come through with more quietude.

[KyleDriftwood]

Ditto

[eleni1621]

It so silly, I am happily married and this song still makes me cry! Maybe it reminds me of others I have loved in the past, maybe its because its so raw and emotional...

[stw6199]

If I knew how to let him go, I would have. I exist for only him.

[thecurryfairy]

wow this song just makes me cry. I know it's more of a relationship song, but it makes me think of my grandfather who just passed away. thanks so much for posting this.

[danemaniac]

I don't think it's just about guy/girl relationships. It can be about any relationships. I actually make the video about a family relationship. Anytime we have to let go, it's a hard thing. Fortunately, every ending also means a new beginning. Glad you guys enjoyed it.

[danemaniac]

I also think it can be interpreted to be about your own self/life. Letting go and starting new. Losing that caged bird, but also letting it fly free once and for all.

[KyleDriftwood]

Exactly

[musicislife888]

so sad...makes me think of the boy i love but can never have because hes away at college and i already have a boyfriend. and he has no idea about my feelings even though we hooked up. i feel stupid but i still love him. and i miss him. i raelly dont know how to let him go.

im ever swiftly moving, trying to escape this desire. the yearning to be near you. i do what i have to do...

[nickndanz]

beautiful......i'm in love too, she feels the same way but she wont do anything about it...she thinks she is not good enough for me....she has this though in her head that i'm perfect...but iam not..all i want to do is be with her forever.....love ya

[angelosvelo]

this song reminds me of ayrton senna,who passed away 13 years ago...so sad...even though i was just a kid back then,i now miss him more than ever,because i've become a better man thanks to him....

[FeliliLoo]

this vid makes me sad reminds of my son thats dead!

[VaselineIsForKidsx3]

so beautiful&hearts;

[maxxx74]

herzzerreissend *heul

[genstar92]

lol it suits anakin and padme :P

[genstar92]

omg this is a beautiful song,it goes with starwars lol

[lucytheghost]

why is it that whenever you're thinking about something or someone...you run across all kinds of songs that fit the emotions you're feeling?? I love this song!

[Evfan1789]

Love,Love,Love this song..Sarah is amazing!!!!!

[julianadominguez]

thanks for posting this song

[kittygothemo]

i love this song . . .my best friend introduced it to me after my 3 month old nephew . . . who was like mine . . . passed away. this song helps me know there are people like me in the world and feel pain and hate towards everything. D:

[adraw99]

may your heart grow to feel love again. There is hope. :) Peace.

[bib1976]

nice video...makes me sad,,deeply sad...

[danemaniac]

Thank you. :-) I was quite sad when I made it. All about letting go. But with every ending starts a new beginning.

[joris1958]

So beautiful it makes me cry

[linearequation]

This is a very good song. Thnx for the lyrics.

[danemaniac]

I agree, it's an amazing song. Glad you liked the video. :-) You're welcome.

[LeenaInBass]

The most beautiful song I have never heard...Thanks so much for the lyrics..