There's no more coming back this way the path is overgrown and strewn with thorns they have torn the lifeblood from your naked eyes cast aside to be forlorn...
- From Solace
I have always been a huge fan of sarah's, I actually went to the same high school as sarah, although I didn't know her personally, I saw her all the time in the halls. I usually have 1 or 2 of sarah's CD's in my player at anyone one time.
Sarah was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1968 and has been on
a musical path ever since. Following years spent studying classical
piano, guitar and voice, the singer was discovered fronting a New Wave
band in 1985 by the then-fledgling Vancouver-based company
Nettwerk Records. In spite of the fact that McLachlan had not yet written a
song of her own, the label signed the 19 year old singer to a recording contract.
Just let me ask of you one small thing
as we have shed many tears
with ferver our dreams we planned a whole life long
now scattered on the wind...
In the terms of enderment
In the terms of the life that you love
In the terms of the years that pass you by
In the terms of the reasons why.
- from path of thorns (solace)
I love the time in between the calm inside me,
in the space where i can breathe.
I believe there is a distance I have wandered to touch apon..
The years of reaching out, and reaching in
holding out, holding in.
I believe this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend as long as i can be left here,
to linger in silence, if i choose to, would you try to understand?
I know this love is passing time,
passing through like liquid, i am drunk in my desire....
- from Elsewhere (Fumbling towards ecstasy)
Mary walks down to the water's edge
and there she hangs her head to find herself faded..
a shadow of what she once was.
she says:
"How long have i been sleeping and why do i feel so old?,
why do i feel so cold?, my heart is saying one thing,
but my body wont let it go."
With trembling hands she reaches up
a strangers flesh is offered and i would be the last to know
I would be the last to let it show and i would be the last to go.
Take her hand she will lead you through the fire, oh and
give you back hope, and hope that you don't take too much respecting what is left she cradled us, she held us in her arms, unselfish in her suffering,
she could not understand, that no one seemed to have the time,
to cherish what was given, and i would be the last to know
I would be the last to let it show, i would be the last to go...