Sarah McLachlan - Possession
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2009
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Lyrics:
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 hard
I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear
Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed
trying to find an honest word to find
the truth enslaved
oh you speak to me in riddles
and you speak to me in rhymes
my body aches to breathe your breath
your words keep me alive 
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I feel bad for the younger folks that think she's just the sad dog lady.
Damn skippy!! 😂
Lol
She could be the "sad keyboard player lady" as the song Angel was written about the death by heroin overdose of Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin.
😂 That was super hilarious!
Omg ur comment is everything 😂😂
The 14 year old in me was never the same after this album was released. I'm 42 now and this song still hits me hard.
Holy Cow, me too! I'll be 42 this year, and I still think she is one of the sexiest women alive! 😋
💗💗💖💕💛
Same, friend! 42 sure got her quick ! Lol
I don't know the album but I DAMN sure know this song...and I'm 48. Still an all time great wong. Tears are rolling right now as I hear it, even tho the song has been in my phones for the longest. lol. I just decided to take a trip down video menory lane.
Damn I miss 94 and the whole 90s actually.
The fact she used her stalkers words and wrote an absolutely hit song with it is just pure genius.... One of the best the 90s had to offer for sure. God I miss those years. It's a vibe you had to Feel to even begin to understand...... No words.
I miss the 90s but they are a hallucination that became reality. It's all maya an illusion. Oh well whatever. Nevermind.
@@matthewscott5450 what?
Maya is Sanskrit for illusion. Possession of another being is nothing but the great illusion of Maya, fueled by the obsessive desire of control that can be found in energetic forces of the Vedic mythic Rahu (demon or asura).
Actually, she didn't use their words. One of them tried to sue her because the song was inspired by the letters she received from more than one stalker. It didn't turn out too well for him, he committed suicide.
@@TUSK1157 then apparently the stalker got possessed. Karma is a bitch
God, I miss the 90s.
Can we please go back to those days?
The harmonizing "Ill take your breath away" is hauntingly beautiful.
Yes!
Yes! I remember that line and the melody. It used to break my heart.
Considering she's an Aquarius, an air sign, that says alot more than people may realize.
Esse aqui agora
It’s so beautiful yet it was based on a stalkers letter which is unnerving
This whole album meant everything to my 24 year old self when it came out.
I can say the same as a 25 year old. So crazy, so long ago. Memories.
A masterpiece. Even after 5000 times.
This and Estranged are the masterpieces of 1993 💖
You mean 50000000000000000000
Mer too ⁰2000 times
Since 1993
I mean, she can sing, eh? I love how she took her stalker's words and turned them back on him. She refused to be bullied. She's made of stronger stuff than that. Haunting song by an incredible singer.
I knew there was something off about a WOMAN saying they would "hold someone down and kiss them so hard" then "wipe away the tears". That was weird to me now I know why
Oh yeah. So effective that her stalker took his life after he heard the song.
Wow! I had no idea. Crazy
@@sirbandit170 After he tried to sue her for an insane copyright infringement claim.
She is a bad ass
The instrumentals for this song is so mystical and enchanting. Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow and the female artists during the 90s didn't make music, they created magic
And compare it to what shit is on the radio today.
I add Shirley Manson (from "Garbage") to that great list. ❤️
Elizabeth Fraser.
@@user-or1ye3iz6d
Dolores from the Cranberries
u forgot...... delores... and alanis....
So many of these great 90s songs felt so mystical and New Age-y, especially the ones sung by women. Anyone else make that association?
Yep
There were men who also did it, but fewer of them, and all of them amazing.
People forget that the 90s was a very spiritual time; remember the global obsession with angels???
@@JoeyMisanthropy Can you please give me some songs from male artists with this vibe? I want to make a playlist 🤍
Definitely. 💙
Sarah McLachlan has such a beautiful voice that she makes a "stalker song " into a Grammy award winning record ! 🎤🎧😎🖤
women fantasize about it all the time so there ya go
@@neinlives9424they fantasize about bears because of dudes like you
@@JoeyMisanthropy bears? big brown unemployed dangerous people who dont stick around to raise their kids? Racist.
A lot of people had this song as their love song or wedding song without knowing why she wrote it. If you know you know. Damn good song
I heard the stalker took her to court over her using his words. I think it was just his way to see her more.
Yup,agreed
I don’t see a problem with that.
I know people interpret songs differently, a different meaning for a different person. It’s too bad some people use this as a wedding song. That’s why, if I ever get married, I’m using Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden.
@@jeffcarri70BTO - “Taking Care Of Business”
Fall of 94, was 17 years old. 1994. Everything was beautiful
Jason Peter's Truly🥰
Me2, 95 graduate
96 grad here, the 1990s felt so alive and amazing. Maybe it's just nostalgia?
Yes. I was so full of hope and potential back then.
I was 27, bought a house,had parties and watched all night videos on Mtv!
For those of you who couldn’t experience music in the 90’s, I am so sorry. It was the greatest decade ever for music.
now we suffer with artists who refuse to enunciate.
@@puddles609 shut up debbie? there's still amazing music you need to understand that you're basing your judgmental views on mainstream music, there's ton more amazing music like angel olsen, fka twigs, marina and the diamonds, declan mckenna etc.
@@desireandfire good heavens, someone is triggered. Now listen to your bands and have a better day.
Hate to argue, but the 70's and 80's BY FAR had the best musicians, No fake drums and synthesized vocals, and best songs. 90's were great tho.
Nope sorry. That award goes to the 80s.
Just saw her in concert, everyone stood up for this. ❤
me too! I saw her at Red Rocks and it was epic!
@@JamieKarek wasn’t she absolutely spectacular??
@@julieann4616 words can't begin to describe it. And her voice is still incredible.
You can't replicate this. THIS is elite.
I would love a man to say I want to hold you down and kiss you so hard takes your breath away
Apparently you can replicate this. Sarah stole this song from someone else.
@@davidetienne9404she didn't steal it. You got the letters? You saw what was written or not written? If you don't, then shut the fuck up.
@@davidetienne9404pretty bold claim you're making. Do you have any kind of proof to backup your statement?
@@GTA6VIGameguythey don't, the letters Uwe Vandrei wrote hardly had anything to do with the lyrics, he was mentally unwell and took her lyrics to be an interpretation of his letters. Which even if that were true, that's not theft, it's artistic expression. If you read the letters you'll see it's not copied.
I bought this cassette single at Walmart for $1.66 exactly 20 years ago today.
ralphkjb hello,Ralphkjb,so Did I !!!! from terry kropog. in South Louisiana.
I had the whole album on cassette
ralphkjb lol I bought it in 96 me and my girl friends would drown our fun times to her music
😂😂 That's all she's worth
ralphkjb mine was from Best Buy
What a dichotomy having such dark material sung by the voice of an angel
Her voice is angelic, her words go right to my soul.
Awww, thank you! Sorry, I was told in high school that my voice sounded like hers and since then I have been singing her songs! Lol
@@edithguzman7277 ???
"I won't be denied" Wow what a voice. Very talented lady.
My Favorite Part Of The Song 🤫
Boy does this take me back. It's dark. It's moody. I sure do miss the 90's
Absolutely. High five!
I miss the 90s so bad myself. I was driving to Boulder in my Buddy's borrowed maroon Cadillac to go skiing with my kids when this song arrived. I bought the CD and listened to it over and over for the whole trip. Particularly remember driving through the corner of New Mexico looking at starry sky. I'm 65 now and still not bored but certainly miss that time in my life. I keep waiting for another tidal wave of life to happen like the 90s.
1993 was the worst year of my life! i lost half of my soul. it was robbed from me...
@@theresaw8525 who took it
OMG me too
I truly believe Sarah is one of those rare singers whose voice is so ethereal, it floats. Rarely do I hear a vocal so delicate and fragile; it seems to want to float away and leave this mortal coil, of its own volition. But underneath the delicacy is a tense, steely strength; flinty, determined. The vocals are delicate, but the lyrics and musical underpinning are so...ugly, raw, messy, uncomfortable. This juxtaposition of the delicate with the ugly is what makes the song work. And it's a winner.
I'm impressed by your writing style. Captured the artist so perfectly too.
Wow 😳 I like how you can work the words.
What is it with Canadian female vocalists... Alanis Morissette is another, similar to Sarah, with a similar juxtaposition in her voice.
Pinned it 🤍
Add that to her physical beauty, there's nowhere this voice can't take you.
This takes me back to a very specific time in the 90s
Yep, I bought the CD back then too. One of my faves!!
Absolutely one of the top music icons of the 1990s. There were soo many great female vocalists in that decade who were "surfacing" . Sarah is definitely one of the most memorable. Simply stunning 🎶
25 year later, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy remains my favorite album of all time
Its definitely my favorite one by her.
Same.
You people make me want to cry with your comments about this song, I got my husband to love it
This is up there for me as well... "yourself or somebody like you" is pretty stiff competition imo... bought this cassette and mb20 at the same time.. both are still amazing to me.
no doubt! agree
First heard this beautiful song in Due South many years ago. It made such an impression it never ever left me. It took me ages to find out who did it. What an artist. What talent. Her songs are stunning!
She had several songs in several different episodes of season 1.
What I love, is that she took something frightening, and turned it into an eternal hit.. That's talent!! Blessed be 💜
"Another day of knowing of the path I fear to tread"
= the infinite ingenuity of Sarah McLachlan and only Sarah McLachlan
Forgive me for being garrulous but today when I was walking through Sears, I heard this song for the first time since I listened to Z100 back in the 5th grade (1994). Somehow, I _completely forgot_ this song existed over the past 20 years, but when I heard it again today I stayed in the store until it was over and then I realized that my breathing had slowed the entire time. Obviously, this song had an tremendous impact on the young me (and I was by no means a "soft" 5th grader; being Hispanic, into hardcore music, and from Brooklyn), since hearing it brought me *right back* to my childhood in such a visceral way.
It's so chilling, so beautiful, and downright _fascinating_ that a great song like this can do that to a man, even after 20 years.
This is the beautiful experience of music.
Corey, you just took me BACK. I spent '94 listening to Z100, usually at night when I was supposed to be sleeping, often recording my fave songs (like this one!) onto mixtapes of randomness. Those mixtapes contain so many feels.
I have always loved this song but forgot about it also. I actually thought about her song Adia and wanted to hear it. I saw this song mentioned as well and was like oh yeahhhh. Good times and good memories. Lol I have also stayed in a store listening to a good song. I don't like when they interrupt it with their in store communications lol.
I grew up to Z100. Man I wish they'd just play music from our childhood again and not current "music", which even kids of today hate.
Ethnicity has nothing to do with appreciating Good Music. Neither does your gender. If it's good...its good. ;-)
I had this song on heavy repeat on my CD player back when it was released.
😉
Same
Me too!
I still do all of these years later
1993
a SONG that cutes right through your SOUL ! A pain that tears part of your soul away forever . l
This woman has always been pure magic, I feel like she's casting spells with her voice and her lyrics.
I agree
One her BEST songs ever!! Bring music like this back.🎶❤
I am
Sarah's best song
Crystal it’s my fav by far, and she is way underrated.
This is the first song by Sarah I remember hearing on the radio when I was maybe 12
Hard to disagree with that although she's had so many great songs. My personal favorite is her version of Joni Mitchell's song "River". Check out Sarah's version on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno recorded a few years ago. My favorite.... but Possession is a close 2nd. :)
This & building a mystery, are my faves...
Crystal one of best songs of THE 90s. (....which basically means OF alltime. )
Still this my favorite song to this day. When I deployed to Turkey and lived in a tent for 6 months in 1998, I played this album every night as I went to sleep.
Smiles, hi Jen 🌺😊
This song is magic on an album that’s a masterpiece!
This song reaches the deepest and darkest emotions of the human spirit and brings it to life!!! Love this song ❤️
+RedoranGuard-SkyrimBattles ❤️
kiss
I love it also, but her version of this on the piano with just her and the piano, awesome.
Raven Drake I definitely agree this song reaches in and touches my soul. I've lived a crazy and scary life this song brings me comfort
Raven Drake
this song reminds me of the movies the Craft and Practical Magic. The female vibration of the 90s was distinct. Nothing like today.
This song used direct phrases from her stalker's love letters. That's the point of the song. He sued her for royalties and killed himself before it went to trial.
He probably couldn't stand to hear her sing the words and have it blasted around the world.
This is, indeed, one of the darkest songs recorded... but not for the reason you think.
Looking past the theme of this song and talking strictly about this sound, I agree with the original post and it reminding of movies like The Craft and Practical Magic. In fact, this song was suggested to me by RUclips because I was listening to Stormwinds, which is a song by Fairuza Balk who played Nancy in The Craft (btw check out that song. I had no idea until recently she did music!!). I HATE it that this kind of music has fallen out of fashion.
Loreena McKennitt and The Cranberries were excellent too.
tcorbett72
first heard it on the season finale of due south. got me and my gal pal in the mood, and well...
I just love this bassline.
September 2022, I'm 41. Still madly in love with this song... Gosh!!!!!
What ever happened to good, emotion filled, music like this?
Adele, Celine Dion and Ed Sheeran are all we have nowadays..sad.
@@Twistedpeppermint99 they're the only mainstream we have .. there are so many more singers you just like to focus on mainstream and judge this generation
angel olsen fka twigs lana del rey fiona apple taylor swift marina and the diamonds ? adele there's many amazing musicians still out there
It died out.
@@desireandfire Holy shit take taylor swift out of there now!
I pray for the innocents’ that lost their lives before they began in Tuam.
What if Sarah were one of them?
Her God given gift of her ANGELIC VOICE WOULD’VE NEVER BEEN HEARD!
Wrote many a college papers listening to her when MTV actually played music videos. The entire album is golden.
I'm 35 now but when I used to play Sarah on repeat. Songs like, Adia, Angel, Building a mystery etc. I did this when I was 11 - 15, while playing the Sims, she's so talented and even an 11 year male knew it TY SARAH ##good times
Adele was not around when you were 11
The 1990s at it's most brooding, and solemnly beautiful..."TRAPPED IN TIME..."
Her stalker produced her best song by far & one my tp30 favs songs ever
She should be stalked more often then
Probably my favorite song from the 1990's, and one of my top 5 favorite albums of that era. When it first came out I used to listen to it over and over while pulling all-nighters at my software company.
Man
I remember when she opened up with this song on the first LF tour....
I rushed the stage through a sea of 30,000 people from the lawn.
I had a camera, got a shot, an I'll never forget that moment in time. Thank you
Something how she took a negative situation (Stalker) and turned it into a positive ( Beautiful music), Then again that's Sarah would you expect any less?
I think there were actually two stalkers if I remember correctly. You only really hear about the one because he sued her over the lyrics of Possession and then committed suicide.
+Bill B. This song could be about a love lost by stalker,just plain circumstances. Heart knows no boundaries but we are bound by them
Learning the backstory to this song was a major paradigm shift for me.. life is a wild ride
I never knew the backstory either! I always assumed it was an impassioned lovers song and dedicated it to my husband 😟
00 00 hell yah...
The 247 people who gave this a thumbs down are playing this on repeat and crying alone.
Now 480 as of 1/29/18
Or stalking someone...☹😯😬
Damn, man, that's...
That's Really harsh.
This whole album musical , lyrical , vocal perfection!
Damn I forgot just HOW F’ing BEAUTIFUL this song (still) is 💜🤘💜
I still think of the Victoria's Secret episodes of Due South. It has that lost, melancholy sound. Great music.
This video is directly flawlessly and exemplifies everything that was cool about the medium in its 90s peak: cinema level production quality juxtaposed with distorted footage...plus a cohesive, tight band fronted by a confident, empowered, classy and talented young woman. I grew up in the 90s dreaming of being a music video director and this is one of the rare videos where I wouldn't have changed a single frame myself if I could have. A beautiful piece of work.
It's from an age when they had the money for physical sets, a crane, actual lighting, a crew etc, a budget, but there was enough creative leeway to use Super-8 and deliberately mess with the film stock. And they were willing to spend that money on someone who wasn't an obvious commercial blockbuster.
This is maybe the most 90s video ever made no joke
There is something divine and powerful in her presentation. She is like a goddess of unrequited love, a siren of broken hearts which reconstitute and beat anew to her haunting lyrics.
This song gives me chills and brings me back so vividly to a place!!
I’ve never met you but yet I’m here and there with you in that magical place 😊😊
fell in love with a man who broke my heart this song reminds me of a time when i had my last dance at youth, now the days are cold and i smile and a tear falls hearing this x
Whoever played and composed the Bass on this song deserves a nobel prize.
Wow...you must be easily impressed....???
Bass is nice...
Yo bro, I totally agree with you. I remember this song when I use to be in middle school, and the bassline always did a number on me! Happy Thanksgiving bro!
Nobel There is no Nobel prize for music.
Totally agree
coming from a metal head:-) Sarah kicks ASS!
I definately hear you brother!!! you can't help but like this song it's amazing!! The production is fantastic.
Will Moats you'd probably like the Smile Empty Soul version, too
Using your stalker's love letters in a love song reminds me of using a picture of your bandmate's blown out brains as an album cover. Metal as fvck
same bro, I'm here after the Evans Blue cover of this song
\m/(>_
I can't even count the number of CD copies of 'Fumbling Towards Ecstasy' I have bought over the last 25 years. Lost...stolen...borrowed-not-returned...sun-damaged...somebody sat on it (yep!)...scratched...cracked...stuck in CD player...
It is one of the very few albums I ALWAYS replaced.
"Borrowed not returned"- that's a crime.
@@fromthehaven94 Lol, can't really blame them!
This song is mesmerizing. Absolutely mesmerizing!
This song makes me melt.... and I'm a big bearded dude!
😂
⛦ I like this song despite the singer being an old hag
As it should.
@@SUGAR_XYLER She's not an old hag in any way. Look up her recent photos and you'll see she's still gorgeous! Which is more than I can say for these plastic bitches that make so much noise in the media and social media!
I know this song because of my dad! Hell yeah.
I'm glad to say I grew up in the 90's. nothing will ever come close to some of the great music that came out in that decade.
word.
90 were good but, the eighties were something else.
jeff cordova Shoot check out the 80's!
Are you joking, obviously you've not had the foresight to listen to the music of the 60's or 70''s.
Except for the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 2000s and today.
I would fall asleep to this song an repeat on my cd player. I love it still to this day. This song is a vibe for sure.
Smiles, hi Michelle 🌺😊
Never knew the backstory to this song. Brilliant! Creepy, too!
I love this song! I know she said it was a combination of creepy fan mail that created the song but Sarah turned it into something beautiful and artistic.
she turned it into Sanity and forgiveness that s amazing song ...but yes gave it an artistic insight that is Angelic and kind
I miss music like this! Hauntingly beautiful
I use to listen to her for sleeping as well as Evanescence for a good sleep and interesting dreamscape.
I love her backup singers voice. They blend together so effortlessly. I wonder who she is, if she performs on her own.
I think the backup vocals are her. A separate recording of her voice played at the same time. Truly beautiful
That’s Camille Henderson
I don’t have the words to how good this song and album is …
They don't make music like this anymore. Some ethereal and magical quality that modern songs fail to capture.
The first time I heard this-Summer of '94-It was the most amazing song I had ever heard. I was almost afraid to hear it again, afraid that with so much time elapsed, it wouldn't retain that power. It still gives me goosebumps.
Yes! I had just been to the Pink Floyd concert, Division Bell, and this song played on the radio! I literally forgot how great the Pink Floyd concert was!
Thank you Due South for bringing Sarah McLachlan into my life. This is probably one of the best songs ever written and performed. Love both this version and the piano one.
Finally Someone Telling The Truth About Where They First Heard This Song From The TV Series "Due South" from South Louisiana.
Has it really been almost 30 years? God damn it, getting old sucks. But this song sure don't.
i honestly dont care why she wrote it. This song empowered me and im thanful for the strength i harnessed from it. i listen to it whenever i need a power surge. and it does the job perfectly! 😉
I've been searching for this song all morning, The only word I could remember is "Kiss". Did you know that out of all of the "Top 100 songs from the 90's" lists that I've poured through all morning, Sarah McLachlan wasn't even listed once, WTF? I never would have found it if I hadn't suddenly remembered the rest "kiss...you so hard, i'll take your breath away". She's totally underrated. why isn't she on the top 90's song lists?
+Admiralty86 yeah bro she really was/is underrated in all of her songs...but if you want the best from her, listen to her album Mirror Ball...about 80% of her songs on that album are exquisite.
Darkskills7 That's also how I felt about Counting Crows album "August & Everything After". 80% of it is incredible.
Believe me you couldn't go anywhere without hearing this album in 1995. Sarah had her extremely well deserved day.
"kisses so hard"
Unfortunately, her 2 biggest international hits were the somewhat forgettable "Adia" and "hear it at every funeral on the planet" song "Angel". The material before and after were superior, but did not catch the mainstream ear. Honestly, my area has a radio station that still plays "Sweet Surrender" once a day... and it didn't even crack the Top 20. I never hear the other two.
I used to date this drummer. He never heard of her so I put the CD on. Not only did he like it but he instantly recognized who the drummer is. He was a savant that way. He was right, btw. Definitely in my top 3 best albums
She was so beautiful in this video. Like a dark angel 🖤
This is her finest song.
omg i still love this song as much as i did when i was younger
+Randy M b
Anushka Khoorban I definitely did as kid. radio stations were so worth listening to then. such talent everywhere!
Antoine Miller .meee three !
Anushka Khoorban agreed💗
This was the video that introduced me to Sarah in 1994 by happy accident while skipping across channels and seeing VH1. The love and nostalgia I feel for this is so incredibly profound.
Here in 2023. Just coming back for nostalgia.
I’m listening to Sarah McLachlan Possession early July 2024
1:55
I know the backstory but you can make of this song what you will. My mind applies it a little differently than what it was written about. I was with a woman that was the world to me for 15 years, this speaks to me of the obsession I felt for her and how I can never let myself hold someone that deeply in my heart again.
I can somewhat relate to this. My husband left me for another man after 12 years quite abruptly and it’s been very trying and scary for me: what will happen to me now??
So the passage “into this night I wander, it’s morning that I dread. Another day unknowing of the path I fear to tread.”
There’s very subtle high pitched background vox in that passage that I wish were more prominent in the mix.
Haunting
......then YOU get it
daniel adrian Yeah, when you know what the song is about, then the lyrics are actually pretty chilling:
And I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after, I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes, dear.
Good description.
ABQSentinel some fan of hers was obsessed with her and wrote her love letters, I think she was actually being nice to him by writing this, that's why they are the stars they are, they will do something like that but he then wanted the money for the songs, because she used words from his letters, yikes. So he kills himself in remorse for betraying something that beautiful, she writes the guy a song. Incredible story if it's true.
I think the song has other meanings though, genius meanings.
Yes the story is true
" Your words keep me alive" dang that's exactly how I feel about my special lady.
You do realize it's her view of what her staulker/rapist did you her?
This song was my introduction to Sarah Mclaughlin back in 1995. My favorite song by Sarah. I played it on repeat for hours.
As sultry as a hot bath on cold night. * Let's give credit as well to the band, backup singer, and those who made the set, and did the recording and editing. Bravo!
I love the subtle side glances, it makes you feel like she's singing to just you.
Hearing this song live in 2013 was one of the best concert experiences ever--the end lifted me out of my seat...
What memories this song brings back to me! "Memories trapped in time" indeed!! I love her voice, it's hauntingly beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
The hidden track on the original album has her performing it solo on a piano. Equally good
Yeah, I really love the piano version. It's simply beautiful...
"Possession" Sarah McLachlan
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
Chorus:
And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd, wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes dear
Through this world I've stumbled
So many times betrayed
Trying to find an honest word
To find the truth enslaved
Oh you speak to me in riddles and
You speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath
Your words keep me alive
And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd, wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes, dear
Into this night I wander
It's morning that I dread
Another day of knowing of
The path I fear to tread
Oh, into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
Nothing stands between us here
And I won't be denied
And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd, wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes dear
I'll hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Sarah Mclachlan
Possession lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Due south made me first listen to this song I've been a fan ever since. So beautiful thank you Sarah
I still remember where I was when I first heard this song. I was working in a hospital that had a tv in each patient room that had music vids playing and this came on and I was mesmerized. Great tune. No one has a voice like hers.
I love the dark vibe to this song
This song is pure, brilliant magic. No matter what is going on when i hear it, i have to stop and listen. It just encompasses so many things: power, strength, subtlety, beauty, desire, and the passions that rise to the surface when you are truly, deeply, committed (or obsessed, as it turned out) to anither person. It's gorgeous, sonic witchcraft in a way. Every part of the song wraps itself around you almost physically to make you a part of it, and its almost indescribable. I know it's about her stalker(s?) and is kind of terrifying for that, yet somehow can also be interpreted as someone with pure devotion in their heart. It really does take one's breath away.
Sarah makes me feel so young!
My wife and I saw her last tour. Indescribably beautiful music!
One of the best live artists I’ve ever seen
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We saw it too, it was magically beautiful,
I first heard this song in Due South. And it got me hooked on Sarah.
Hecatedevotee2009 me too. I recently rewatched the entire series. A great show and song.
I LOVED that show. Gawd I miss good tv like that and songs like this.
Me too! Takes me right back to the 90s.
This song is so genius. Listening to it growing up I always thought there was something behind the lyrics. It was written by a stalker to Sarah. The way she sings it back is kind of haunting and almost satirical. The fact he killed himself after trying to sue her makes it even more tragic/ethereal.
It's really well-written. It starts off innocently enough until the chorus, which is creepy at first - it has a Taxi Driver quality - and gets more sinister every time it repeats. But the music is so defiant it comes across as a giant, sarcastic middle finger, and it has a neat tune as well. It's one of those classic "it sounds innocuous until you focus on the lyrics" songs, like Every Breath I Take or Oliver's Army.
I think she missed out on some excellent love making with this mentally ill man. 😅
TRUE ARTIST regardless of genre make the world a better place to live! Thank You, Sarah M.
Folks who like this song might like another haunting piece, "Bury My Lovely" by October Project. OP was even an opening act for Sarah McLachlan. Bury My Lovely came out in '93 and the video gives me shivers to this day.
October Project, another brilliant music act.