
Sarah McLachlan's Music
Song Meanings | Lyrics | Discography
Here are a few of Sarah's songs and the meanings of them as explained by her on the program, VHI Storytellers.
Building a Mystery
This song is about how "we all put on masks to hide who we really are."
Sweet Surrender
This one is about "having people accept you for everything that you are, including all of the ugliness inside of you...two people accepting each other, totally."
Hold On
This song is about a woman on a documentary that Sarah watched whose husband was dying of Aids. Sarah said that the woman spoke with such "pure emotion, such clarity and honesty. Something came out of me through the woman." Sarah wanted to depict that truth and emotion in this song.

Elsewhere
This is about the "trappings of youth and adolescence... struggling to find out who you are, through your parents and through society."
Possession
Possession is about "dealing with fame. A small percentage of my fans crossed the line, that boundary of being sane." Sarah explained how hard it is dealing with the fact that she
is an ordinary person with an extraordinary job..."It has to do with the way people perceive me. I am still the same person that I was before. I wrote this song to try to get into the shoes of the obsessed fan so that I can try to find a way to deal with it."
Adia
This song is about "my problems in dealing with feeling responsible for everyone else."
-VHI Storytellers
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