Building A Mystery

I got Sarah Mc Lachlan's live cd, Mirrorball, for Christmas, and I have become rather addicted to it. Now, I know she doesn't have the most proper singing technique, but she does have an emotional quality that very few people can match. And besides, I'm not trying to sing like her. But I do like hearing music that is pure poetry, and not tired old love songs that are written by rote.

Below are my three favorite songs, Adia, I Will Remember You, and Building A Mystery. I was told that I Will Remember You is the song that says the most about how I feel about life. Interpret it as you will, I just like the song.

Adia

• adia, i do believe i failed you. adia i know i've let you down
• don't you 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
• 'cause there's no one left to finger, there's no one here to blame, there's no one left to talk to honey,
• and there ain't no one to buy our innocence. 'cause we are born innocent, believe me adia,
• we are still innocent , it's easy, we all falter, does it matter?
• adia, i thought that we could make it but i know i can't change the way you feel
• i leave you with your misery, a friend who won't betray, i pull you from your tower
• i take away your pain and show you all the beauty you possess, if you'd only let yourself believe
• that we are born innocent, believe me adia, we are still innocent
• 'cause we are born innocent, adia we are still, it's easy we all falter....
• but does it matter?

Building A Mystery

• You come out at night, that's when the energy calls, and the dark side is light, and the vampires roam
• You srtut 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 sleep with voodoo dolls,
• And you won't give up the search for the ghosts in the halls.
• You wear sandals in the snow and a smile that won't wash away.
• Can you look out the window without your shadow getting in the way?
• Oh, you're so beautiful with an edge and a charm, so careful when I'm in your arms
• 'Cause you're working, building a mystery, holdin' on, holdin' it in.
• Yeah, you're working, building a mystery and choosing so carefully.
• You woke up screaming aloud a prayer for your secret God, you feed off our fears, and hold back your tears
• Give us a tantrum, and a know it all grin, just when we need one, when the evening's thin
• Oh, you're so beautiful, a beautiful f****ed man, you're setting up your razor wire shrine
• 'Cause you're working, building a mystery, holdin' on, holdin' it in.
• Yeah, you're working, building a mystery, and choosing so carefully.
• You're building a mystery.......

I Will Remember You

• I will remeber you, will you remeber me? Don't let your life pass you by... weep not for the memories
• I'm so tired, but I can't sleep, standing on the edge of something much too deep
• Ain't it funny how we feel so much, but cannot say a word. Though we are screamin' inside we can't be heard.
• And I will remember you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by. Weep not for the memories.
• I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a 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 remeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by.....
• Weep not for the memories.