Sarah McLachlan - Shine On Album Lyrics

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In Your Shoes

You turn the radio on play your favorite song and cry... cry
You let it all disappear push back the doubt and fear they try... try

To hold your head under the waves but you're breathing all the same
You are stronger than their hate

Time for you to walk out walk in your own shoes
Lay down your footprints wherever you choose
Leave it all behind and move on you are your own woman

You never asked for trouble but you've got fire that burns so bright... bright
You turn and face the struggle when all the others turn and hide... hide

You hold your head above the waves above the war they try to wage
You are stronger than their hate

Time for you to walk out walk in your own shoes
Lay down your footprints wherever you choose
Leave it all behind and move on 'cause you are your own woman

Time for you to walk out walk in your own shoes
Lay down your footprints wherever you choose
Leave it all behind and move on you are your own woman move on yeah
Time for you to walk out walk in your own shoes
Lay down your footprints wherever you choose
Say what's on your mind with pride 'cause you are your own woman

You've got a light that always guides you
You speak of hope and change as something good
Live your truth and know you're not alone

You turn the radio on play your favorite song and sing out so loud

 

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Flesh And Blood

Desire is no cautious creature
Insatiable like raging fire
A heat is rising all around
My senses so alive
It searches out the darkest places
No fear of walls or ways concealed
Set alight my secret longings
All revealed when I'm near you

Logic escapes me and I can't breathe
'Cause you burn to my bones
Like you're all I've ever known
Let thunder crash let rivers flood
If all we are is flesh and blood

The fury of the storm confounds me
Violence and beauty all collide
In all my animal emotions I can't fight this tide
'Cause you are the wave that pulls me under
Ravage me from head to heart
And all my careful calculations
Fall apart when I'm near you

Logic escapes me, and I can't breathe
'Cause you burn to my bones
Like you're all I've ever known
Let thunder crash let rivers flood
If all we are is flesh and blood
Let thunder crash let rivers flood
If all we are is flesh and blood

'Cause you burn to my bones
Like you're all I've ever known
Let thunder crash let rivers flood
If all we are is flesh and blood

Let thunder crash let rivers flood
If all we are is flesh and blood

Let thunder crash let rivers flood
If all we are is flesh and blood

Come together, fall apart
We build our towers with paper walls
As if we have any control lets burn it all...

 

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Monsters

When we were young
there were always creatures lurking under the bed
A thousand year old dragon lived deep in the lake
and he said don't be afraid
So you dove in

He seemed so sweet and lovely he made you laugh
and made you forget about the rain
Showed you new tricks on guitar
hidden talents that erases the pain

And don't you know that there's a wolf stalking in sheep's
clothing tells me he's the real thing
Think what your life would be missing
if you didn't have him to sing
To sing about

Three headed monsters they want your money wanna be in the picture be your friend
They fill your pool with alligators are they all just jokers or are they cruel

They light up when they see you like there's no where else that they'd rather be than by your side
Then they promise you the stars but they're really just along for the ride

And don't you know that there's a wolf stalking in sheep's
clothing tells me he's the real thing
Think what your life would be missing
if you didn't have him to sing
To sing about

Is it the sparkle in their eyes or the knowledge
of the ways of the world
The way they kiss the way they hold you has made you
blind to the fangs and the fire

There's a wolf stalking in sheep's
clothing tells me he's the real thing
Think what your life would be missing
if you didn't have him to sing
To sing about

 

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Broken Heart

Are we just drops of rain falling for a little while
Playing hard we lose and gain
trying to hold on to what matters

Till the end...

I keep walking forward like I know where I'm heading
How I wish you were here to see me trying to live up to my name

Till the end...

I should be thinking with my head not with my broken heart
Look to the future for all it can give and not to us being apart

We trip and fall and stand again
and go on with our heads held high
We laugh and love as best we can
trying to hold on to the wonder

How long? How long?

I should be thinking with my head
and not with my broken heart
Look to the future for all it's got and not to us being apart

Sometimes I feel I can't go on
I let it get me down so hard to heal oh and I fall
Fall to my knees it hurts to survive the love that's gone

But I should be thinking with my head
and not with my broken heart
Look to the future for all it's got and not to us being apart

 

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Surrender And Certainty

Smooth stones down by the waterside give in to ebb and flow
Collide in blindness embrace and part no fear of letting go
There's no fight to get ahead, nowhere that they'd rather be

Safe in the arms of surrender and certainty
Caught in a moment and sure they'll be carried
Take me back down to the water to feel that sure
Of anything...

I write your name down in the swollen sand and I walk out in the waves
I know you're here I feel you all around me
In this sea of soothing grey
I don't even feel the cold it's warm as you wash over me

Safe in the arms of surrender and certainty
Caught in a moment and sure I'll be carried
Take me back down to the water to feel that sure
Of anything...

Rain like tears stream down the windshield as we pull out on the road
You were the star by which I light my way
So how do I find my way now?

Back in the arms of surrender and certainty
Caught in a moment but sure we'll be carried
I want to know what it feels like to be that sure
Of anything...

 

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Song For My Father

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 upon you now
Amidst the chaos and the noise

Your light buried the dark
A constant unwavering heart

You were the well to cool my fury
Deep and calm your waters feel
Your quiet words a salve to soothe my wayward soul
It was there I learned to heal

Your light buried the dark
A constant unwavering heart

Oh I hope that you can hear me
Through the ravages of time
You have carried me though more than you could know
I still feel your hand in mine

Your light buried the dark
A constant unwavering heart

 

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Turn The Lights Down Low

Night falls heavy like an iron fist
The silence taut and frail
I weigh the depths of love and terror
In this test I cannot fail
'Cause there's no map to guide the human heart
Down roads we've never been
Sometimes I feel I'm running blind but I'm trying

So turn the lights down low
Let the night come easy
Take my hand won't you let me in
'Cause when the world comes crashing down inside your head
I'll be right here right here for you

Words fall heavy out of tired mouths
Resigned to rage and roar
I see behind your eyes the tempest rising
And I can't reach your shore
When all my good intentions fall apart
And I wind up on my knees
There's nothing gained from being right but I'm trying

So turn the lights down low
Let the night come easy
Take my hand won't you let me in
'Cause when the world comes crashing down inside your head
I'll be right here, right here for you

So turn the lights down low
Let the night come easy
Take my hand won't you let me in
'Cause when the world comes crashing down inside your head
I'll be right here, I'll be right here for you

Take my hand won't you let me in
'Cause when the world comes crashing down inside your head
I'll be right here, I'll be right here waiting
Right here for you

 

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Love Beside Me

I know now there's no one here to blame
I could but what good would that do
It wouldn't change a thing
So I grew accustomed to the shame
The sharp sting of your poison
Trying so hard to erase
All the good in me

If this is love beside me
I'm working on forgiveness
Laying the past down behind me
Letting go the ways that I've been hurt
Let the rivers rise and rage
I'll try and stand with grace
If everything is love

In the end the war had left us broken
Mourning all the things I'd lost
The debts I couldn't pay
But I didn't want to disappear
I was caught in TV static
Sinking into grey
No more to give away

If this is love beside me
I'm working on forgiveness
Laying the past down behind me
Letting go the ways that I've been hurt
Let the rivers rise and rage
I'll try to stand with grace
If everything is love

If this is love beside me
I'm working on forgiveness
Laying the past down behind me
Letting go the ways that I've been hurt
Let the rivers rise and rage
I'll try to stand with grace

If this is love beside me

 

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Brink Of Destruction

It would be if it could be so wonderful if we succeed
Your warmth and your words found a place in my world and breathed new life in

We come from the brink of destruction
we gathered ourselves from the floor
We tried and we suffered and finally recovered
and found a new way to live
We're two side by side with impossible dreams
taking a chance to let love in

Storms come I learned to be strong
I don't lean on anyone else
But now I am so content here in your arms
I don't want to be anywhere else
With you I'm home, with you I'm home

I hold fast to my destination I know that the road will be long
We light up the sky let the beauty define us and give,
give it all we got
We're two side by side with impossible dreams
taking a chance to let love in

Storms come I learned to be strong
I don't lean on anyone else
But now I'm so content here in your arms
I don't want to be anywhere else
With you I'm home, with you I'm home

 

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Beautiful Girl

One thing that I know
It will get better
Each and every drought
Ends in the river

If I were a diviner, you'd be awash in rain to cool your fire
Oh to cool your fire

There could be winds of change in my auburn hair
But I'll tie it back for now
And when the bitter breeze carries a trace of fear
We'll persevere some how

We're gonna push on through, pretty girl
Just like we always do, beautiful girl
I know the world can be cruel, pretty girl
You're gonna make it 'cause you've got love on your side

The truth of letting go
Lies in the answer
That when the storm subsides
I'll still be there to hold you

There's beauty in your violence, and the dissonant melody I hear you sing
Oh I love to hear you sing

There could be winds of change in my auburn hair
But I'll tie it back for now
And when the bitter breeze carries a trace of fear
We'll persevere somehow

We're gonna push on through, pretty girl
Just like we always do, beautiful girl
I know the world can be cruel, pretty girl
You're gonna make it 'cause you got love on your side

Pretty girl

One thing that I know
Is it will get better...

 

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The Sound That Love Makes

Can you hear it? This is the sound that love makes
The fingerprint of a snowflake
It paints a picture of you

Can you feel it? This is the flavor of sunshine
The way your body it moves mine
I can taste you in the coolest raindrops

One hand in the other unlike any other hand I know
I'm seeing the sun in all the darkest grey skies

This time I'm going in for the sweetest kill
I'm gonna eat till I get my fill
So delicious are my lips on your skin

One hand in the other unlike any other hand I know
I'm seeing the sun in all the darkest grey skies

Sweetness, this is the rhythm of thunder
From up above or down under
I love you

 

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What's It Gonna Take

Since I was a girl I dreamed of a different life
Far away in the lights
But now I'm here staring into the face of the unknown
And who was I to think I could fool them

When I don't even know who I am
What's it gonna take to make me worthy
What's it gonna take to make me strong
I don't have much to give, I've only just begun to live

So how do I become somebody new
How do I begin to make this happen
How will I believe and see this through
When I feel so unready and I feel so alone

Back on solid ground my head is spinning 'round
My heart is in two different worlds
But I'm still here wondering where I fit into the madness

I thought when I was home I'd see clearly
But there's so much I don't understand

What's it gonna take to lift the darkness
What's it gonna take to light my way
I have so much to give I've only just begun to live

So how do I begin my life anew
How do I begin to make this happen
How do I believe and see this through
Cause I feel like I'm ready but I still feel unsure

 

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Little B

Time for bed little bee
Little bee
I will always love you more
Than you love me
I will treasure these years
Of our borrowed time
As much as I want it
I know you're not mine

Good night moon
Giving trees
Love you forever
Pirate seas
Remember these moments
As you grow
A few more cuddles
Before I let you go

Heart of the jungle and dragon's lair
Just remember someday how much your daddy cared
Into your dreams I will watch you drift
Your memories of this will be my greatest gift

Good night moon
Giving trees
Love you forever
Pirate seas
Remember these moments
As you grow
A few more cuddles
Before I let you go

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