Lyrics to Surfacing
1. Building A Mystery you come out at night that's when the energy comes and the dark side's light and the vampires roam you strut your rasta wear and your suicide poem and a cross from a faith that died before Jesus came you're building a mystery you live in a church where you sleep with voodoo dolls and you won't give up the search for the ghosts in the halls you wear sandals in the snow and a smile that won't wash away can you look out the window without your shadow getting in the way oh you're so beautiful with an edge and a charm but so careful when I'm in your arms (chorus) 'cause you're working building a mystery holding on and holding it in yeah you're working building a mystery and choosing so carefully you woke up screaming aloud a prayer from your secret god you feed off our fears and hold back your tears give us a tantrum and a know it all grin just when we need one when the evening's thin oh you're a beautiful a beautiful fucked up man you're setting up your razor wire shrine chorus repeat chorus ------------------------ 2. I Love You I have a smile stretched from ear to ear to see you walking down the road we meet at the lights I stare for a while the world around disappears just you and me on this island of hope a breath between us could be miles let me surround you my sea to your shore my sea to your shore let me be the calm you seek oh and every time I'm close to you there's too much I can't say and you just walk away and I forgot to tell you I love you and the night's too long and cold here without you I grieve in my condition for I cannot find the strength to say I need you so oh and every time I'm close to you there's too much I can't say and you just walk away and I forgot to tell you I love you and the night's too long and cold here without you --------------------------- 3. Sweet Surrender it doesn't mean much it doesn't mean anything at all the life I've left behind me is a cold room I've crossed the last line from where I can't return where every step I took in faith betrayed me and led me from my home and sweet sweet surrender is all that I have to give you take me in no questions asked you strip away the ugliness that surrounds me are you an angel am I already that gone I only hope that I won't disappoint you when I'm down here on my knees and sweet sweet sweet surrender is all that I have to give sweet sweet sweet surrender is all that I have to give and I don't understand by the touch of your hand I would be the one to fall I miss the little things oh I miss everything it doesn't mean much it doesn't mean anything at all the life I left behind me is a cold room ------------------------------ 4. Adia Adia I do believe I failed you Adia I know I let you down don't you know I tried so hard to love you in my way it's easy let it go... Adia I'm empty since you left me trying to find a way to carry on I search myself and everyone to see where we went wrong 'cause there's no one left to finger there's no one here to blame there's no one left to talk to honey and there ain't no one to buy our innocence 'cause we are born innocent believe me Adia, we are still innocent it's easy, we all falter does it matter? Adia I thought we could make it but I know I can't change the way you feel I leave you with your misery a friend who won't betray I pull you from your tower I take away your pain and show you all the beauty you possess if you'd only let yourself believe that we are born innocent believe me Adia, we are still innocent it's easy, we all falter, does it matter? believe me Adia, we are still innocent 'cause we are born innocent Adia we are still it's easy, we all falter ... but does it matter? --------------------------------- 5. Do What You Have To Do What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage created you a monster broken by the rules of love and fate has lead you through it you do what you have to do and fate has led you through it you do what you have to do ... and I have the sense to recognize that I don't know how to let you go 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 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 I don't know how to let you go a glowing ember burning hot burning slow 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 know I can't be with you I do what I have to do and I have sense to recognize but I don't know how to let you go I don't know how to let you go I don't know how to let you go ------------------------------- 6. Witness Make me a witness take me out out of darkness out of doubt I won't weigh you down with good intention won't make fire out of clay or other inventions will we burn in heaven like we do down here will the change come while we're waiting everyone is waiting and when we're done soul searching as we carried the weight and died for the cause is misery made beautiful right before our eyes will mercy be revealed or blind us where we stand will we burn in heaven like we do down here will the change come while we're waiting everyone is waiting chorus -------------------------- 7. Angel Spend all your time waiting for that second chance for a break that would make it okay there's always one reason to feel not good enough and it's hard at the end of the day I need some distraction oh beautiful release memory seeps from my veins let me be empty and weightless and maybe I'll find some peace tonight in the arms of an angel fly away from here from this dark cold hotel room and the endlessness that you fear you are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie you're in the arms of the angel may you find some comfort there so tired of the straight line and everywhere you turn there's vultures and thieves at your back and the storm keeps on twisting you keep on building the lie that you make up for all that you lack it don't make no difference escaping one last time it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees in the arms of an angel fly away from here from this dark cold hotel room and the endlessness that you fear you are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie you're in the arms of the angel may you find some comfort there you're in the arms of the angel may you find some comfort here ------------------------------ 8. Black & White unravel me a distant cord on the outside is forgotten a constant need to get along and the animal awakens and all I feel is black and white the road is long the memory slides to the whole of my undoing put aside I put away I push it back to get through each day and all I feel is black and white and I'm wound up small and tight and I don't know who I am everybody loves you when you're easy everybody hates when you're a bore everyone is waiting for your entrance so don't disappoint them unravel me untie this chord the very centre of our union is caving in I can't endure I am the archive of our failure and all I feel is black and white and I'm wound up small and tight and I don't know who I am everybody loves you when you're easy everybody hates when you're a bore everyone is waiting for your entrance so don't disappoint them everybody loves you when you're easy so don't disappoint them don't disappoint them ... --------------------------- 9. Full of Grace the winter here's cold, and bitter it's chilled us to the bone we haven't seen the sun for weeks to long too far from home I feel just like I'm sinking and I claw for solid ground I'm pulled down by the undertow I never thought I could feel so low oh darkness I feel like letting go if all of the strength and all of the courage come and lift me from this place I know I could love you much better than this full of grace full of grace my love so it's better this way, I said having seen this place before where everything we said and did hurts us all the more its just that we stayed, too long in the same old sickly skin I'm pulled down by the undertow I never thought I could feel so low oh darkness I feel like letting go if all of the strength and all of the courage come and lift me from this place I know I could love you much better than this full of grace full of grace my love ---------------------------- 10. Last Dance (instrumental, no lyrics) --------------------------- Prayer of Saint Francis Lord make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, joy. O divine master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive- it is in pardoning that we are pardoned. And it's in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen. Back to the Sarah McLachlan page
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