Rarities B-Sides And Other

Sarah McLachlan Rarities B-Sides And Other Lyrics
1.Dear God

Lyrics:Andy Partridge
Music:Andy Partridge

Dear God, hope you got the letter and, I pray,
that you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
and all the people that you made in your image
see them fighting in the street,
'cause they can't make opinions meet,
about God...
I can't belive in you

Dear God, sorry to disturb you but,
I feel, the letter should be heard loud and clear,
we all need a big reduction in amount of tears,
and all the people that you make in your image
see them fighting in the streets,
'cause they can't make opinions meet,
about God...
I can't belive in you

Did you make disease,
and the diamond blue..?
Did you make mankind,
after we made you..?
The devil too..?

Dear God, don't know if you've noticed but,
your name, is on a lot of quotes in this book,
and us crazy people wrote it,
you should take a look,
and all the people that you made in your image,
still belive this junk is true,
well I know it ain't and so do you
Dear God...
I can belive in you...

No no no I won't belive in you

I don't belive in Heaven or Hell,
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well,
No pearly gates, no thorny crown,
You're always letting us humans down,
The wars you bring, that babes you drown,
Those lost at sea and never found
It's all the same, the whole world round,
The hurt I see helps to confound,
The Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
It's just somebody's unholy hoax
If you're up there you'd percieve,
That's my heart upon my sleeve,
If there's one thing I don't belive in,
It's you

Dear God


2.I Will Remember You

Written:Sarah Mclachlan/Seamus Egan/Dave Merenda

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,
We let them slip away from uswhen things got bad
Clearly I first saw you, smilin' in the sun,
I wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

I will remember you,
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life, pass you by,
Weep not for, the memories.

I'n so tired, but I can't sleep,
Standing on the edge of something much too deep
It's funne how we fell so much, yet cannot say a word,
We are screaming inside but we, can't be heard

I will remember you,
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life, pass you by,
Weep not for, the memories.

So afraid to love you, more afraod to lose,
Clinging to past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night,
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light

I will remember you,
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life, pass you by,
Weep not for, the memories.

I will remember you,
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life, pass you by,
Weep not for, the memories.

Weep not for, the memories


3.Fear(Lunasol Remix)

Lyrics:Sarah Mclachlan
Music:Sarah Mclachlan

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 I'd like
better than to fall
but I fear I have nothing to give

Wind in time
rapes the flower trembling on the vine
nothing yields to shelter it
from above
they say temptation will destroy our love
the never ending hunger

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 I'd like
better than to fall
but I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
I have nothing to give
We have so much to lose...


4.Gloomy Sunday(Live)

Lyrics:Javor/Lewis
Music:Seress

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 I thought of joining you
Gloomy Sunday

Sunday is gloomy
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided
To end it all
Soon there'll be flowers and prayers
That are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know
That I'm glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death I'm caressing you
With the last breath of my soul
I'll be blessing you
Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming
I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart dear
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy Sunday


5.Full of Grace

Lyrics:Sarah Mclachlan
Music:Sarah Mclachlan

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

I know I could love you much better than this

It's better this way


6.Song For A Winter's Night

Lyrics:Gordon Lightfoot
Music:Gordon Lightfoot

The lamp is burning low upon my tabletop,
The snow is softly falling
The air is still, in the silence of my room,
I hear your voice softly calling

If I could only have you near,
To breath a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love,
On this winters night with you

The smoke is rising in the shawdows of her hair,
My glass in almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page,
The words of love you send me

If I could know within my heart,
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love,
On this winters night with you

The fire is dying, my lamp is growing dim,
The shades of night are lifting
The morning light steals across my windowpane,
Where webs of snow are drifting

If I could only have you near,
To breath a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love,
And to be once again with you
And to be once again with you


7.Blue

Lyrics:Joni Mitchell
Music:Joni Mitchell

Blue..
Songs are like tattoos
you know I've been to sea before
Crown and anchor me, or let me sail away
Hey blue, here is a song for you
Ink on a pin, underneath the skin
An empty place to fill in

Well there's so many sinkin'
You gotta keep thinkin'
We can make it through these waves
Acid, booze and ass
Needles, guns and grass
And lotsa laughs, lotsa laughs

Well, everybody's saying that
Hell's the hippest way to go
Well I don't think so
But I'm gonna take a look around it though
Blue, I love you...

Blue...
Here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
Here is my song from me...


8.Drawn To The Rhythm(Live)

Lyrics:Sarah Mclachlan
Music:Sarah Mclachlan

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
care

CHORUS
And we were drawn to the rhythm
Drawn to the rhythm of the sea
And we were drawn to the rhythm
Drawn to the rhythm of the sea

We fell asleep and began to dream when something broke the night
Memories stirred inside of us the struggle and the fight
And we could feel the heat of a thousand voices telling us which
way to go
And we cried out is there no escape from the words that plague
us so

CHORUS

In the still and silent dawn another day is born
Washed up by the tireless waves the body bent and torn
When you wake in the face of the blinding sun and you search
only to find
That heaven is a stranger place than what you've left behind

CHORUS


9.Shelter(Violin Mix)

Lyrics:Sarah Mclachlan
Music:Sarah Mclachlan

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 want to share
Oh I've seen a part of people that I never knew was there

CHORUS
Shelter - give them shelter from the coming storm
Shelter - give them shelter from the coming storm

I can't sleep haunted by their faces
The sadness in their eyes
It hurts so much to see them helpless
It makes me want to cry
But still there is so much left unanswered
For so many innocent lives
They close the doors and are letting nobody in
And only the strong will survive

CHORUS

I've seen the anger and I've seen all the dreams
And I've watched an existence torn apart by the seams
And though I may seem helpless
I will do all that I can do
Oh I've seen a part of people that I never really want to share
Oh I've seen a part of people that I never knew was there

CHORUS


10.As The End Draws Near(Extended Remix)

Lyrics:Sarah Mclachlan
Music:Sarah Mclachlan

'People of the Earth, you are reconciled that this
is the last night of the world.
This is the last night of the world?'

Into the valleys the shadow of death
Grieves silently across the darkened sea

This is it - we stand alone
We can see it all from here
The starless night across the mountainside
There's no one left to talk to
There's nothing left to say

Into the valleys the shadow of death
Grieves silently across the darkened sea

You and me - we stand alone
We can see it all from here
Stretched far and wide, the barren skies
Fighting silence, deep inside

Into the valleys the shadow of death
Grieves silently across the darkened sea

You and me - we stand alone
We can see it all from here
Stretched far and wide, the barren skies
Fighting silence, deep inside

Into the valleys the shadow of death
Grieves silently - it's in you and me
Oh, it's in you and me
Oh, it's in you and me


11.Vox(Extended Remix)

Written:Sarah Mclachlan/Greg Reely

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 eyes the strains of battle like a brooding storm
Your up and down these pristine velvet walls like focus never
forms
My walls are getting wider and my eyes are drawn astray
I see you now a vague deception of a dying day

Oh why?

I fall into the water and once more I turn to you
and the crowds were standing staring faceless cutting off my
view to you
They start to limply flail their bodies in a twisted mime
And I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
You're gone and I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm
lain entwined

Oh why?


12.Into The Fire(Extended Remix)

Written:Sarah Mclachlan/Pierre Marchand

Mother teach me to walk again
Milk and honey so intoxicating

Mother teach me to walk again
Milk and honey so intoxicating

CHORUS
And into the fire
I'm reunited
Into the fire
I am the spark
Into the fire
I yearn for comfort

Open the doors that lead on in to Eden
Don't want no cheap disguise
I follow the signs marked back to the beginning
No more compromise

CHORUS

Free the water that carries me to the sea
You I see as my security

CHORUS

I will stare into the sun until its light doesn't blind me
I will walk into the fire until its heat doesn't burn me
And I will feed the fire

CHORUS


13.Possession(Rabbit In The Moon Remix)

Lyrics:Sarah Mclachlan
Music:Sarah Mclachlan

Just close your eyes

Can I ever, can I ever, can I ever be the one?
Can I ever, can I ever, can I ever be th one to hold you down?
Can I ever, can I ever, can I ever be the one?
Can I ever, can I ever, can I ever be th one to hold you down?

Kiss you so hard, i'll take you breath away,
And after I, wipe away the tears, just close you eyes.

Just close your eyes.
Just close your eyes.
Just close your eyes.
Just close your eyes.

I'll hold you down,
kiss you so hard,
I'll take your breath away.

Just close, close your eyes.
Just close your eyes.
Just close your eyes.
Just close your eyes.
Just close your eyes.