Sarah McLachlan

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 'c...

Spend all your time waiting for that second chance for a break that would make it okay there's always some reason to feel not good enough and it's hard at the end of the day I need some distraction oh a beautiful release memory seeps from my veins let...

Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing o'er the plains And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains Gloria in excelsis Deo Oh shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? What the gladsome tidings be Which inspire your heave...

I will be the answer At the end of the line I will be there for you While you take the time In the burning of uncertainty I will be your solid ground I will hold the balance If you can't look down If it takes my whole life I won't break, I won't bend It will...

When we first met the well was dry A long dark winter passed us by With shooting stars and hopeful hearts our worlds collide And so we rushed to fill each other in Quick to feed our hungry hopes A feast of our affections we were born anew With open eyes we tr...

Away in a manger No crib for His bed The little Lord Jesus Laid down His sweet head The stars in the bright sky Looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus Asleep on the hay The cattle are lowing The baby awakes But little Lord Jesus No crying...

You open your eyes, look around You feel the earth it wanders - Out, from under your feet - the ground Is not firm but soft and weak - like skin Under the touch, cannot stop to falter Now, the damage is done the certainties gone The spirits altered [refren]...

On the hills of fire the darkest hour I was dreaming of my true love's pyre Who will bring a light to stoke the fire Fear not for you're still breathing On a winter's day I saw the life blood drained away A cold wind blows on a windless day Hear the cry for ne...

As the walls are closing in And the colors fade to black And my eyes are falling fast and deep into me And I follow the tracks that lead me down And I never follow what's right And they wonder sometimes when they see all the Sadness and pain the truth begins t...

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...

Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only wai...

Blue, songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea betore Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Blue, here is a song for you Ink of a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in Well there're so many sinking now You've got to keep thinking You can...

I can't see the stars anymore living here Let's go to the hills where the outlines are clear ref. Bring on the wonder Bring on the song I pushed you down deep in my soul for too long I fell through the cracks at the end of our street Let's go to the b...

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 sl...

I can't believe that you're walking away from us Could not conceive we'd ever be done But I feel you drifting you don't have to hide from me I just keep hoping you let me in Maybe I can't help but talking may, I am here for you Time passes us by and the way...

Christmas time is here Happiness and cheer Fun for all that children call Their favorite time of the year Snowflakes in the air Carols everywhere Olden times and ancient rhymes Of love and dreams to share Sleigh bells in the air Beauty everywhere Yuletide by...

Christmas time is here Happiness and cheer Fun for all that children call Their favorite time of the year Snowflakes in the air Carols everywhere Olden times and ancient rhymes Of love and dreams to share Sleigh bells in the air Beauty everywhere Yul...

There are two of us talking in circles And one of us who wants to leave In a world created for only us An empty cage that had no key Don't you know that we're working with flesh and blood Carving out of jealousy Crawling into each other it's smothering...

Dear God Hope you got the letter and... I pray you can make it better down here I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer But all the people that you made in your image See them starving on their feet Cause they don't get enough to eat From God I can't...

If I had the chance, love I would not hesitate To tell you all the things I never said before Don't tell me it's too late [refren] Cause I've relied on my illusions To keep me warm at night But I denied in my capacity to love I am willing, to give up this fig...

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...

Love has taken me for a fool Gotten out in time to save himself Should've known better but I let things slide I took you for granted that you'd always be the one for me And baby I stopped trying Oh baby, don't give up on us I know your heart is full of doubt,...

When we wore a heart of stone, we wandered to the sea Hoping to find some comfort there, yearning to feel free And we were mesmerized by the lull of the night And the smells that filled the air And we layed us down on sandy ground. It was cold, but we didn't c...

You've been gone so long all that you know has been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow of the beautiful strangers who whisper your name do they fill up the emptiness? [refren] Larger than life is your fiction In a universe made up of one You have been dri...

I love the time and in between the calm inside me in the space where I can breathe I believe there is a distance I have wandered to touch upon 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...

Heaven bent to take my hand And lead me through the fire Be the long awaited answer To a long and painful fight Truth be told I've tried my best But somewhere along the way I got caught up in all there was to offer And the cost was so much more...

Morning smiles like the face of a newborn child innocent unknowing Winter's end promises of a long lost friend speaks to me of comfort but I fear I have nothing to give I have so much to lose here in this lonely place tangled up in our embrace there's nothing...

Loving lying enemy I have seen your face before Never thought again I’d see Didn’t want to anymore I remember your loving eyes And the moonlit kiss The evening lullabies I will truly miss Through the years we had it all Midnight whispers, the midday calls Thi...

the winter here's cold, and bitter it's chilled us to the bone we haven't seen the sun for weeks too 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...

All the fear has left me now I'm not frightened anymore It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh It's my mouth that pushes out this breath And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I won't fear love And if I feel a rage I won't deny it I won't fear love...

Sunday is Gloomy, My hours are slumberless, Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers will never awaken you Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you Angels have no thought of ever returning you Would they be angry if...

Go, tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go, tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watching Over silent flocks at night Behold throughout the heavens There shone a holy light Go, tell it on the...

Hey your glass is empty it's a hell of a long way home why don't you let me take you it's no good to go alone I never would have opened up but you seemed so real to me after all the bullshit I've heard it's refreshing not to see I don't have to pretend she doe...

So this is Xmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Xmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very Merry Xmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And s...

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Let your heart be light From now on, Our troubles will be out of sight Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Make the Yule-tide gay, From now on, Our troubles will be miles away. Here we are as in olden days, Happy g...

Before the night comes, before the city sleeps I walk a lonely mile I see you watching, I know you're waiting For me to make a sign I know you'd like me to go and crumble Reveal myself to you I lost a wing and grew a shell on the wound Oh so soon And heartbr...

Hold on Hold on to yourself for this is gonna hurt like hell Hold on Hold on to yourself you know that only time will tell What is it in me that refuses to believe this isn't easier than the real thing My love you know that you're my best friend you know I'd d...

Child walks down to the river's edge And looks out as far as she can see And draws each breath as if it were the last And wipes away the tears across her sleeve She can see where the river crawls to the sea Like a baby into mother's care Somehow the longing is...

Twas in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled That mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead Before their light the stars grew dim and wondering hunters heard the hymn Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria Within a...

Something 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 t...

I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping Your body gripped by some far away dream Well I was so scared and so in love then And so lost in all of you that I had seen But no one ever talked in the darkness No voice ever added fuel to the fire No light...

I will remember you Will you remember me? Don’t let your life pass you by Weep not for the memories Remember the good times that we had? I let them slip away from us when things got bad How clearly I first saw you smilin’ in the sun Wanna feel your w...

I'll be home for Christmas You can count on me Please have snow and mistletoe And presents on the tree Christmas Eve will find me Where the love light gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams 

The ice is thin come on dive in underneath my lucid skin the cold is lost, forgotten Hours pass days pass time stands still light gets dark and darkness fills my secret heart forbidden... I think you worried for me then the subtle ways that I'd give in but I k...

Your love is better than ice cream better than anything else that I've tried and your love is better than ice cream everyone here know how to fight and it's a long way down it's a long way down it's a long way down to the place where we started from Your love...

Here I go again...back into your arms What ever happened to resolve? For though I thought that I was strong, that I could carry on Awash in the illusion of this bliss Here I go again...back into the flame Like a moth so willing to be burned A little touch a l...

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away wh...

Mother teach me to walk again Milk and honey, so intoxicating I'm reunited Into the fire I am the spark Into the night I yearn for comfort Open the doors that lead on into Eden Don't want no cheap disguise I follow the signs marked "back to the beginning" No...

Oh, the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow It doesn't show signs of stopping And I brought some corn for popping The lights are turned way down low Let it snow, let i...

By the shadows of the night I go I moved away from the crowded room That sea of shallow faces masked in warm regret They don't know how to feel, they don't know what is lost [refren] Lost in the darkness of a land Where all the hope that's offered is Memorie...

Love come Light up the shadows Let the beauty of you enter in For I have hungered for a tender touch A long and lonely time I've seen much more than I want to So much anger So much pain A line is drawn and lives are torn apart The wound's too...

Loving you is easy. Loving you is wondrous and pure. I shout it from the rooftops, 'How long must I wait 'til I see your smile'? Light up in the moonlight, Caught up in the sparkle in your eyes. So wrong and I know I should go so, But it's not like me to wait....

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 said "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 won't let go" W...

Mercy - pure and simple Longing - cold and hollow With sweet breath you'd come to warm me But I held on too hard to only a memory You lie there on the swollen ground Deserted in your heart Still longing for what yesterdays lost And for all that tomorrow might...

O come, all ye faithful Joyful and triumphant O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem Come and behold him Born the King of angels O come, let us adore him O come, let us adore him O come, let us adore him Christ the Lord Sing, choirs of angels Sing in exultation S...

O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear Saviour's birth Long lay the world in sin and error pining Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious m...

O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight For Christ is born of Mary And ga...

My time went so quickly I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55 Pulled away slowly feeling so holy God knows, I was feeling alive. And now the sun's coming up I'm riding with Lady Luck freeway cars and trucks Stars beginning to fade and I lead the parade Ju...

We can feel a change is coming Like a kiss upon a tide Breathing life into every heart A hope for kinder times Cause we'll walk this road together Though at times we felt alone In the struggle to leave dissent, We find the strength one yet to find You carry y...

It's not that unusual When everything is beautiful It's just another Ordinary miracle today The sky knows when it's time to snow Don't need to teach a seed to grow It's just another Ordinary miracle today Life is like a gift, they say Wrapped up for you ever...

Crouching down inside a deep ravine Those angry cries pass quickly by, he can't be seen So many ways spent hiding in so many undone plans Forgetting what it's like to fight when no one understands Close call there in the shadows There's a fear in the dark Ther...

Out of tune Behind our door there's no war No burning towers, just hours of peace Between us at least no pretense No violence, makes no sense ref. It isn't my heart that's grown cold The same mistakes are getting old I'm lost for words, I don't know...

Am I faithful, am I strong, am I good enough to belong In your reverie a perfect girl Your vision of romance is cruel and all along I played the fool All your expectations bury me [refren] Don't worry you will find the answer if you let it go Give yourself so...

I looked into your eyes they told me plenty I already knew you never felt a thing so soon forgotten all that you do in more than words I tried to tell you the more I tried I failed I would not let myself believe that you might stray and I would stand by you no...

Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide, Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time, The night is my companion and solitude my guide, Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied, And I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you so...

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 t...

Everytime I look at you the world just melts away All my troubles all my fears dissolve in your affections You've seen me at my weakest but you take me as I am And when I fall you offer me a softer place to land You stay the course you hold the line you k...

Why are there so many Songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side Rainbows have visions And only illusions Rainbows have nothing to hide So we've been told And some choose to believe it I know they're wrong wait and see Someday we'll find it The rainbow...

It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to make a lot of money Then I'm going to qui...

There's a tunnel that leads to the rivers of love The sides make you bleed 'til you're white as a dove Don't bother to bring all the baggage you cling to The porter will free you Before you come through The doorway that cleanses The darkness that mends...

A time so haunting moonlight in the mist Lay me down Beside you oh as long as it lasts From the river comes a Figure drifting slowly by Trailing long the water, leaving softer than a sigh Softer than a sigh All the feelings they remain like a still life A dyin...

They're crowded into the smallest spaces While outside, all of nature cries It's known to be cruel and unfair But there is no place to hide Oh, I've seen a part of people that I never really wanted to share Oh, I've seen a part of people that I never knew was...

Give me release witness me I am outside give me peace Heaven holds a sense of wonder and I wanted to believe that I'd get caught up when the rage in me subsides In this white wave I am sinking in this silence in this white wave in this silence I...

Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace Silent night, holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight Glories stream from heaven afar Heavenl...

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks Dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling of Christmas Children laughing, people passing Meeting smile after smile And on every street corner you'll hear Silver bells, silver bells It's Christmas time in the city Ri...

The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top The snow is softly fallin' The air is still within the silence of my room I hear your voice softly callin' If I could only have you near To breathe a sigh or two I would be happy just to hold the hands I love Upon thi...

How I wish that I could tell you It’s to you that I would run You were the place that I could always rest my head When my world had come undone ‘Cause I’ve been wrestling with my demons They’re telling me I have no choice How I wish that I could lean up...

You're always waiting on the tide It's time you decide I've walked down long roads that seem to have no end at all You never wanted time to end To let my life offend It's time to realize what hides deep inside your holy eyes Hold on tight, hold on fast This ai...

We walk without a sound across a barren landscape Your eyes are twisted down to a dew entrailed ground We watch the stars as they slowly fade away and in the clearing sky I see The cold stone face of morning setting in on me It's a strange world It's a very st...

Night lift up the shades let in the brilliant light of morning but steady there now for I am weak and starving for mercy sleep has left me alone to carry the weight of unravelling where we went wrong it's all I can do to hang on to keep me from falling into ol...

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...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimos Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will fin...

The First Noel, the Angels did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay In fields where they lay keeping their sheep On a cold winter's night that was so deep. Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel Born is the King of Israel! They looked up and saw a star Shi...

I knew you wanted to tell me In your voice there was something wrong But if you would turn your face away from me You cannot tell me you're so strong Just let me ask of you one small thing As we have shared so many tears With fervor our dreams we planned a who...

Time here, all but means nothing, just shadows that move across the wall They keep me company, but they don't ask of me they don't say nothing at all. And I need just a little more silence And I need just a little more time But you send your thieves to me sile...

Your love in all it's finery Tear up the darkness all around me Until I can breathe again Until I believe again Cause I'm a train wreck Waiting to happen Waiting for someone to come pick me up off the tracks A wild fire born of frustration Born of a w...

Somewhere deep inside me I hold a picture of a time long gone A time of ease and simple pleasures And days in shadows not so long Now with my mind I'm struggling Holding on to what I believe Listen to the fragments of my thoughts That leave me broken and decei...

You walk on by Clueless and so high Following your aimless path Away from us You're so far away And what can I say? 'Cause I can't be the one You wanted me to be ref. So tell me, how do you feel? It's so confusing If you let it all go It'll fall...

In the desert of my dreams I saw you there And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared Oh why? Through your ey...

Under a blackened sky far beyond the glaring streetlights sleeping on empty dreams the vultures lie in wait You lay down beside me then you were with me every waking hour so close I could feel your breath When all we wanted was the dream to have and to hold th...

Color in sky prussian blue Scarlet fleece changes hue Crimson ball sinks from view [refren] Wear your love like heaven Wear your love like heaven Wear your love like heaven Lord kiss me once more Fill me with song Allah kiss me once more That I may, that I m...

What child is this, who, laid to rest On Mary's lap, is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing: Haste, haste to bring him laud, The Babe, the Son of...

When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful Every hour we spent together, lives within my heart And when she was sad, I was there to dry her tears And when she was happy, so was i, when she loved me. Through the summer and the fall, we had each other, th...

when somebody loved me everything was beautiful every hour we spent together lives within my heart and when she was sad i was there to dry her tears and when she was happy so was i when she loved me through the summer and the fall we had each other that was...

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may...

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening In the lane, snow is glistening A beautiful sight We're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away is the bluebird Here to stay is a new bird He sings a love song As we go along Walking in a winter wonderland...

The lake is frozen over The trees are white with snow And all around Reminders of you Are everywhere I go It's late and morning's in no hurry But sleep won't set me free I lie awake and try to recall How your body felt beside me When silence gets too hard to...

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...

Hearts are worn in these dark ages You're not alone in this story's pages Light has fallen amongs the living and the dying And I try to hold it in, I try to hold it in Chorus: The world's on fire and It's more than I can handle I tap into the water I...