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Possession is a song a friend of mine used to like.

Sarah McLachlan - POSSESSION - tempo mapping by meanspeed measurement by Spiron Winters_LCM

: Sarah McLachlan – POSSESSION – tempo mapping by meanspeed measurement by Spiron Winters_LCM

She played it for me a few times and upon looking for the tempo of the song, and in looking in how Sarah maps (or doesn’t – she is married to the drummer, though on this recording I think she might still be married to the keyboardist) the tempo of the performance.

: Sarah McLachlan – POSSESSION – tempo mapping by meanspeed measurement by Spiron Winters_LCM

: Sarah McLachlan – POSSESSION – tempo mapping by meanspeed measurement by Spiron Winters__41

: Sarah McLachan – POSESSION as fit into the excellent iTunes® program by American company Apple® where there is NO PIRACY ALLOWED

I admit that in going to measure the tempo of the song, I had no idea whether it would be somewhere in the 80s-100. If the song were in the low 80 bpm range, I would have guessed with the people below who opine that this song reflects an emotion of loneliness of solitude in a creepy way.

No matter how the facts of what did or did not create the spark for the song, and the people commenting below have many alternatives, all of which could not be right (!), the 97-98 beats per minute song tempo indicates to me a song of powerful comfort. Other songs within 1% of this speed can be found listed below:

“Biko,” Peter Gabriel / “Love’s Theme,” Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra, “Mustang Sally,” The Rascals, “Spinning Wheel,” Blood Sweat & Tears, “Eminence Front,” The Who

Sarah McLachlan - POSSESSION - tempo mapping by meanspeed measurement by Spiron Winters__41

Meanspeed®-Carlton Song Summary

song title=POSSESSION

composer=Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachan - POSESSION as fit into the excellent iTunes® program by American company Apple® where there is NO PIRACY ALLOWED

performer=Sarah McLachlan

album=Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, 1993

median expected tempo/arithmetic mean speed=97.8 beats per minute

average beat, 1/4 note getting the beat=~0.6175 seconds

Intellectual Property=Artista Records, 1993

Kind=Purchased AAC audio file

Bit Rate=256 kbps

Sample Rate=44.100 kHz

download seller=iTunes® by Apple®

Profile=Low complexity

File Extension=.m4a

File Size=9.1 MB

corresponding mean aural frequency=412.28 Hertz

mean standard frequency=1.63 Hertz

The song was measured on iTunes® by Apple® software from a Macbook® using Sony® refurbished headphones. Among other devices uses for measurement a Casio® calculator, software by Microsoft® and Google®.

Ian Andrew Schneider

7/11/11

Meanspeed® Music Company

Kendall Park, New Jersey

United States of America

NOTE

A site that as far as I can tell adds no benefit at all to Sarah McLachlan or anyone else for any other reason than to steal lyrics is “songmeanings.com”
Songmeanings doesn’t “steal” the lyrics, because they are only repeated as sensory impressions by “Kevin,” which is fine with me because legally that puts all their [work] in the public domain.
The following analysis is courtesy of the kind, gracious, benevolent and loving people at songmeanings:
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

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.
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ooooohdoggie
02-24-2002

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I heard Sarah explain she was inspired by a letter from a fan from the United states. ( across the great divide )
In the song she is speaking for him. his desire for someone he does not really know must mystify the object of his desire.
Sarah appears to be the answer to his lonely life, not satisfied by forever with her, wandering in the night, fearing the day, it’s morning that I dread, filled with yearning, solitude is his guide, he follows without pride.
Her fan is unhappy with life , yet wants to have Sarah be the center of his life, believing they she would bring him meaning or fulfillment. she talks of wiping away tears, taking away her breath, and even forever not being enough to satisfy.

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It’s about a stalker she had. It’s sung from his perspective. Fits perfectly when you look at it from that point of view.

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If one ignores the idea that Sarah wrote this song from the perspective of a stalker..

.. the song is even more beautiful. I prefer to believe that this song is an obsession song BY a female. You rarely hear those! And it’s such a beautiful song. Placing all that trust and faith and hope in one person, so much that “my body aches to breathe your breath, your words keep me alive.”

Life is so bitter. But you’re that lamp in the dark that leads me.

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I agree with pragmatic poetry. This song is about a woman. I don’t necessarily know that love is object. I think this song is more about pent-up desires. She is singing to her lover of her NEED. I think she is after a man with baggage. “Nothing stands between us here and I won’t be denied,” tells me that she has been waiting for her opportunity and she is not going to wait for anything. Such powerful imagery in this song. She wants to hold him down and kiss him until he cries. What power.

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this song means more 2 me then any other song does or has or will. it perfectly and completly describes my relationship with somone, him with baggage, me waiting, and how much we need eachother. i love it

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…sigh… i agree with pragmaticpoetry and shining peace. so much need in this song. desire.. i dunno =)

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On some website i read that the Sarah wrote this song to help herself deal with an obsessed fan. I guess that kinda fits with the whole “stalker” thing… it fits if you look at it that way.

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I understand that it is about a stalker, but like someone else stated, I choose to think of it as from the viewpoint of a female who has so much passion for this person. That’s how I feel about this new guy I’m talking to. This song was playing in the background and we moved closer and closer to each other, while I was singing this song to him. I kissed him on the part, my body aches to breathe your breath…wow, talk about a sexually charged moment! I still get chills thinking about it.

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I think that it is great that there are so many that appreciate this song as much as I do. There’s something about it, that gets to me. It’s actually really meaningful to me, I never thought too hard about what it was talking about until I read something on Sarah’s website about how it’s about being so obcessed with someone that you would actually become violent with them. I just also want to add that I think the Mirrorball version of this song is better than the Fumbling Towards Ecstacy version..

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Actually, I read an interview in Rolling Stone, I believe, a few years back where it WAS about an obsessed fan (male, sorry guys) and he had actually killed himself. She wrote this song from that perspective and to help her deal with her emotions about it.

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I heard this song was about a possesive boyfriend that killed himself and this song was a bunch of entry’s from his journal…

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This song is about an obsessed fan. Sarah herself said on VHI Storytellers, “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.” So, there you go. It’s told from the fan’s point of view. This song is amazing. I know that Sarah wrote it about an obsessed fan, but that doesn’t mean it has to have that exact meaning for everyone else. We listen to music because it touches us — because we can relate to it. To me, this song perfectly describes how I feel about someone who I am in love with, but they don’t love me back. I desperately want to show this person how I feel about them… I want to kiss them so hard and take their breath away. I yearn for them and I just want to be with them so badly — I want them to love me and notice me. I’m alone and sad, and I want this person to fill this emptiness inside of me. I love this song. It means so much to me. The lyrics are beautiful and Sarah’s voice is incredible.

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I love this song… oooh, this is the one i listen to when meditating or stretching at night with a candle and inscence lit. One of my favorite songs, which i must have like 100 favorite songs, but it doesn’t make this song any less gorgeous. I find that it talks about her need for love, her hurt from love, and how she’d go to any lengths to find love. I really do like this song, if you haven’t heard it, which u probably have if your on this page, please download it. Perfect song. Perfect Voice. Strong. Pretty. Grand.

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if it is about a stalker, then its a damn dramatic and beautiful song for that topic! if i agree with anyone, its stacy, but i don’t really know what the song means

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i think she just wants to be with this man and she is positive that she could be good to him. she is thinking of all the things she wants to do to him and would do to him if she could only have him. this song was the first sarah mclachlan song i ever heard….and i still love it. the piano version at the very end of fumbling towards ecstacy is so good. let the last song play…and it’s a hidden track.

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Ok whatever it’s true meaning is, I don’t care. It truly means something more to me that some carzed psycho fan. Silverpuppiez, I feel for you, I’m going through it too, and I hope it worked out for you. Shining Peace, I fell your interpretation has to be the closest to what I’d lke the song to be about.

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This song has two meanings.One, the inspiration for the song-the stalker.He tried to sue Sarah for using his words and eventually killed himself.The second is that is a beautiful song on it’s own about passionate love(at least that’s how I take it).

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this song is absolutely beautiful:

the night is my companion,
and solitude my guide
would i spend forever here
and not be satisfied?

thats an awesome line, so is this one:

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

^that was written for me!

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i believe its about a fan and it is completely beautiful…she’s so talented to put herself in those shoes and make it so great…the due south soundtrack version is best (piano only)

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I’m not sure i can describe it. Though most of you have hinted around it. Yeah i agree the stalker angle but in me it jus stirs up all this raw emotion. It is just so powerful you feel it in a way that needs no description, it is just understood.

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

Live To Love. Love To Live

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miss mo & Arcadian have it right, it was stated not only on Storytellers, but also on another VH1 program dealing with music’s most misunderstood/misinterpreted lyrics. But the song speaks to each person on many other, different levels depending on their situation. I was a senior in high school the first time I heard this song, with my first love yet still obsessed with the boy I’d been crushing on since 7th grade. It had a different meaning for me for each boy. I finally bought Fumbling Toward Ecstacy a few years later when I got around to buying my first CD player and the song had a different meaning for me, as I was then an adult who’d gone through her sexual awakening. It was no longer just some cheesy song to moon over some boy to. I was able to appreciate the raw power in her voice and the lyrics. Sarah’s voice is amazing! It’s like hearing an angel who’s discovered the art of seduction. The meaning changed for me yet again after I got married and realized just how much my Husband meant–and still means–to me. Then, of course, I was shattered when I found out what the song was **actually** about. I felt kinda guilty about turning the song into an audial wet dream when Sarah had gone through so much hell and Possession was her way of dealing with it. Kind of like the first Tori Amos song I heard–can’t remember the name of it just now, but I felt kinda unclean remembering all the many GREAT bedroom moments the song had taken me through, only to discover it was a song about her dealing with having been raped. But the great thing about many of our finest artists today is that they KNOW that no matter what they write their songs about, once the song is released, it’s no longer strictly their own. It now belongs to all of us, and the meanings will be changed, colored, and enhanced by our own perceptions, desires, dreams, and life events. And the artist is, in most cases, okay with that, because s/he knows that at least we took something positive from the song, something to relate to and to enahnce the good times or get us through the bad times, and that is the essence of what great music and songwriting is all about.

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Love this song.

“the night is my companion,
and solitude my guide
would i spend forever here
and not be satisfied?”
- that is how I feel, never satisfied.

And this.. this is such an incredibly powerful line:
“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”
- so beautiful, so passionate

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Great song. Ahem….. from a guy’s POV (me, that is)…. I heard this song in a cool strip club that didn’t play that bham da bham heavy loud music stuff and the dancers would ask the DJ to play whatever CD they felt like dancing to. So this hot blonde girl I had a liking to asked Mr DJ to play this one song. When her set was over (and boy, what a set it was) she came down to sit beside me and I had to ask her what that first song was. The next day I went out to Best Buy and got Sarah’s album. I don’t pretend to be scholastic about anything but on a purely hedonistic surface look, the song is about a strong sexual urge focused on one person. Male or female, it works both ways. But I also have seen the VH1 special and of course, Ms McLachlan’s interpretation stands but come on now. Everyone puts their own interpretation into everything and it’s always a little different due to different circumstances, i.e. environment, upbringing, mood, whatever you ate that day. BTW, I never scored with Chloe, the hot 5’3″ blonde ‘dancer’ so whenever I hear this song on the radio or wherever, that’s what I think about.

Peace

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has anyone ever read the novel “possession” by a.s. byatt? i think that the sarah’s song relates to the novel pretty well, since they’re both about people who are obssessed about poets

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if you like the original you should listen to type o negative… there version of this song is amazing….
pii
06-29-2006

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John Clare’s poem ‘I am’ contains a very familiar line:

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
//Into the living sea of waking dreams,//
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest, that I love the best,
Are strange�nay, rather stranger than the rest.

Funny, because it’s my favourite line in the song

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i heard, from a very reliable source, ( and yes i’m aware this has been brought to attention) that this song contains actual lines from a letter a stalker wrote to sarah mclachlan. what some people may not know ( not saying you don’t, just trying to help) is that in some letters, death threats were made and sarah brought this guy to court, and eventually he killed himself. uh anyway, i think it was really brave of sarah mclachlan to confront this guy, through her art: a song. i mean, usually when someone has a stalker they try to avoid them and shake them off, but she totally put herself out there by writing a song about it. that to me is pretty brave. especially with the risk the guy would hear it one day.

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It’s funny, I never knew this song had that stalking meaning. Always thought it was about crazy love. (not that far from the truth). What is also funny to me is that its title had always sounded to me like “Obsession” instead of “Possession”.

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I created an account specifically to make this point about this song: I can’t tell you exactly what Sarah meant, as I’m not her, but I can tell you that she’s definitely implying that the obsessed person (whose point of view the song is from, and assuming it’s a guy) intends to murder the object of his affections (assumed to be Sarah herself).

For example, the line, “hold you down, kiss you so hard I’ll take your breath away” is clever in that it sounds like love, but in fact is deadly affection, and implies that perhaps the he will drown Sarah in the song. The “kiss you so hard” is not a literal kiss, but more of an “expression of love” that got out of hand.

“And after, I’d wipe away the tears” of having killed her. “Just close your eyes dear” referring to when someone lies dead, people shut their eyes.

It explores the, “If I can’t have her, nobody can,” mentality that can arise through absolute obsession.

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fan obsession? okay! i just love this song.. and, i always thought that it would make a great addition to interview with a vampire or the vampire lestat by anne rice. “the night is my companion, and solitude my guide would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?” “Into this night I wander
it’s morning that I dread.” “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.” sounds like a vampire to me. the night is my companion because vampires can’t go out in the daylight. their kiss takes your breath away…. what do you think???

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Watch her performance at the VH1 guys!!!!! It talks about an obsessed fan and his letter he wrote to Sarah.

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… and btw it is a great song, one of my fav’ actually. I’m a fan of sarah and sometimes, it looks like this song is mine.

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My favorite SM song next to “Fallen”.

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too much interpretation! the actual music, notes, melody, is what matters most to me, and this song is beautiful

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i agree that the stalker sounds as if he wants to kill her. the whole “if i cant have her, nobody can” mentality. i also see that in real life the stalker committed suicide.

“nothing stands between us here
and I won’t be denied”

these lines seem to me that he intended on killing her and then himself. so he could take her as his own in the after life. pretty scary. and very brave of SM to write this song.

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I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it. I didn’t really understand what the song really meant in the beginning. I finally did some searching for the lyrics and was mesmorized by every words in this song maybe due to some phrases in the song that I can relate to in real life. I kind of have a big crush on this one guy at work and all we did was making eyes contact or sometime just say Hi when we walk pass each other in the hallway but we knew that it was more than Hi that we wanted to say and we were just both too shy about doing anything.
Anyway when I read the lyrics and I was like. OMG. that is exactly how she describes my feeling.
“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” that is really how I feel right now.
and this part “Through this world I’ve stumbled
so many times betrayed
trying to find an honest word to find
the truth enslaved” we’ve all encountered that one time or another in our lives.

And this is how I feel when I wake up every morning.
“Into this night I wander
it’s morning that I dread
another day of knowing of
the path I fear to tread”

This will always be one of my all time favorite song.

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I saw the storytellers where she explained about the stalker, but it has always just meant one thing to me: lust.
Not even love, just pure, unadulterated lust. The whole song is written as though she’s fantasizing.

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I liked this song for a while, hearing both cover versions I could find (Type O Negative as mentioned, and new rock band Evans Blue – believe it or not). I listened to it after understanding the (lack of) relationship I have with a particular female, and the whole song came to me at once. I actually cried.

Yes, I know its output from Sarah about a stalker, but I’m allowed to have my own interpretation, right?

Mine is this: not necessarily complete obsession, but the feeling of being possessed by the other even though that person does not know it. This woman fascinates me with every move and every look, and without noticing it I began to build up what we ‘might have’. Parts of the lines include “you speak to me in riddles…” and “from across the great divide” which to me says that I cannot understand her words fully because I’m not listening for a message – just the voice. Also, the lines “the night is my companion” and “it’s morning that I dread” say ‘I feel best about you when my dreams can play as they like’. I didn’t see it as deadly attraction or stalker-ish obsession, just internal and external struggle to ‘get it out’ the right way to the other person how the singer feels.

I was also one of those guys who never had a girlfriend and nobody knew why. I read over the lyrics in this song and compare them to my whole high school and early college period, and it makes glorious sense. In this case, the whole set of lyrics is sung from inside a dream. There wasn’t a real person who is the object, but rather a dreamed-up person who is completely fantastic and ‘perfect’ for the dreamer (hey, it’s a dream, right?), and only available through dreams. I actually had a ‘person’ like this once, so I understand it in this parallel too.

Aside from the lyrical interpretations, awesome song, with gloriously imagined melody and harmony (especially) – makes me wonder who else sang with Sarah on the album version of the song. The verse chords are the same as another great love song, “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaac (Bm, A, E) and lend the song a very powerful sense of haunt.

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miss_mo pretty much explained it for me. She did state that on her Vh1 story tellers that the letters she was recieveing were scary and it was the only comforting way sarah could deal with it. She said the letters were becoming “I need to be with” manner that was worrying here. If you know the back story the fan was very obsessed with her. He even tried to sue her in court just to be near her. But it prolonged for a long period of time cause the court needed to gaurnetee Sarah’s saftey. The fan eventually committed sucide and the suite fell out of court. But i do admit if you look away from that matter the song is very beauitful in a haunting way

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i also want to add that i love the last bit in the third versus. “nothing stands between us here and i wont be denied” damn that’s pretty powerful shit!!

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Dido > Sarah Mclachlan

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This is just really sweet…
“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”
Who wouldn’t just melt when it’ said to you?
Mysterious and verbuous, my kind of guy.
It’s like having a long distance relationship and though you’re far from each other you still keep the fire burning because your love is beyond the physical, the flame is fueled by mental and emotional attachment.

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Playdrv4me, that’s a matter of opinion >< at least make an effort to make a comment on the song itself instead of making a menial post like that… anyway…

I know the stalker deal and whatnot, but I can’t help but have my own interpretation like everyone else’s. And as with other songs that I’ve commented on songmeanings, I’ll break it down by verse ’cause that’s how I can do it best for myself ^_^ I can relate to this song so much because it pretty much describes how I felt about my now ex-girlfriend (the break up wasn’t because of the stalking, lol)

“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?”

The sleepless nights alone of just thinking of a person and freezing the image of the person or their face in your mind… their eyes, lips, their smile… and just replaying their voice over and over in your head and you want so desperately to answer back and sometimes you do whether it’s just whispering to yourself or saying a small prayer for them.

“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”

This actually reminds me a little bit of “Pet” by A Perfect Circle but in a much more loving, obsessive sense rather than a manipulative, control perspective. It’s beautifully sickening, I think, because the first thing that comes to mind for me is a person (usually a serial killer) stalking someone he’s loved for such a long time. Or even better, Hades and Persephone. You want the person so bad, even if it’s against their will, just to feel their kisses and embraces and the touch of their skin.

“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”

Heh, this one really reminds me of my ex-girlfriend… her and I considered ourselves intellectuals and we loved puzzles and riddles and philosophy. For my end, though, it was much more… she was like a drug for me like I couldn’t function without her. Even if I knew I wouldn’t be able to see her, I would keep that fact under wraps in the back of my head because I never really wanted to face it (“The truth enslaved”). It was always a beautiful thing when she woke up with me or vice versa together and just listening to each other’s heartbeats and tangled up in each other’s arms and the sheets. =)

“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”

Again, “Deep In A Dream” about the person (Frank Sinatra reference; good song. If you haven’t listened to it, please do so ^_^) and never wanting to wake up to the possibility of going about your day without seeing the person. And if you do go about your day without seeing them, you do so lacking any sort of real motivation (I think, anyway) and when the chance arrives to see the person, you’re like an elder tiger looking for prey… absolutely nothing will hinder you from getting what you want.

Anyways, that’s my interpretation of the song from my perspective and experience. The emotions went both ways for a while until we just couldn’t stand being away from each other and lo and behold, we were for a good long time and when we saw each other again, it didn’t feel the same. So we just went our separate ways somewhat even though neither of us really wanted to.

On another note, yet again a b-a-u-tiful song by a just-as beautiful singer and lyricist =) Sarah McLachlan really knows how to hit it home with the mind and soul, IMO.

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I think it’s really interesting that she took the time to write an outstandingly original, beautiful song about someone who was obsessed with her… i don’t think i’ve ever heard of someone else (famous) who did that unless it was a song intended in a derogatory way to the fan/stalker. Most musicians don’t take the mental effort to do what Sarah did here. Very unique. Very good song.

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To me, this song is about an inner lustful alternate (i.e. “multiple” or “dissociative”) personality… the kind that would make someone go out, find someone to use them sexually, then black out and not even remember that it had happened.

I also agree with some of the other posters that it does sound like a woman’s point of view. Perhaps the letter from the real-life stalker awakened an “inner stalker” in Sarah, which obviously is under control and channeled into her music and her healthy relationships, but which nonetheless may exist and have a voice.

The production has a wonderful way of creating that murky, dreamlike quality that accomapnies such feelings and experiences. I especially have to say the bass does an amazing job of being compelling, driving and accurately played, yet elusive, muddy and indistinct at the same time.

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The beginning always gives me chills. “Listen as the wind blows, from across the great divide.” Amazing!

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Ok on the comments list it says what does this song mean to you ? Ok yes Sarah wrote about a stalker and because she did the stalker filed a lawsuit however the trial never went to court because the guy committed suicide.

The song to me is about a love that could never happen and the singer of the believes that the two of them uniting would make them both whole people to the point of where they soul mates. And the singer dreads the morning because that when he awakes to reality which is they not together and he or she is alone. Personally I like the song the symbolism is nice not to complicated and deep you have to dig to get the meaning. Anyone got a reason for the title: Possesion ? Is the stalker the possession or the stalkee would love to hear your thoughts k !

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Sarah;
There are no words that can possibly discribe what is felt in my heart to know that this woman of strength and endless beauty of inner deep true soul, was left to be set free by a worldly marriage vow by a single soul of foolish lost endeavours.
I would give my soul, my possession, leave my dreams behind, breath life only to have one moment that Ashwin Sood had let go free.
Sarah, if you ever set eyes on this message entwined in this bottle, suspended in the vast sea of comments and wishes, remember it is only a possession that turns into sand in our hand.

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Hi, i know this is a song that sarah wrote when she was being sent disturbing letters by a disturbed fan but if you apply it to a passionate relationship it is a very sexy song. Love can be obsessive and all consuming but if both feel the same way it’s very powerful. Don’t we all want this?

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This is a song that Sarah McLachlan made to help her deal with a stalker that was really taking a toll on her psyche. This song was made with the letters that the stalker wrote her. These words are straight from the stalkers mouth. There was a big court hearing because the actual stalker got upset and tried to sue McLachlan for using his writings to make a song but in the end McLachlan was victorious. The stalker actually committed suicide after the case was finished. This is a very haunting song in my opinion. It gives me the creep’s lol.
donald209
01-25-2011

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sarah didnt write this song. she used the exact words from letters sent to her by a stalker. instead of running scared of him she confronted him with this song. ill break it down for you:

“And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard”
….he’s talking about physically forcing her down against her will and violently kissing her

“I’ll take your breath away
and after, I’d wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear”
….he says ill take your breath away as in i will literally take your breath away by killing you. this whole verse is about him killing her.

“Through this world I’ve stumbled
so many times betrayed”
in this verse it means he feels like nobody has understood him his whole life, remember he is a mentally ill stalker, people like him feel like nobody understands them and that they are all alone in the world

“Trying to find an honest word
To find the truth enslaved”
this means he is paranoid

“Oh you speak to me in riddles and
You speak to me in rhymes”
in this line, it is explaing that he “knows” she is “speaking” to him through songs and other things, even though she really is not. he imagines her trying to speak to him because in his mind he thinks she is in love with him. he is obsessed with her.

“My body aches to breathe your breath
You words keep me alive”
he is obsessed with her and truely thinks he would be nothing without her. he wants to steal her breath as in kill her

“Into this night I wander
It’s morning that I dread
Another day of knowing of
The path I fear to tread”
he stalks her, he watches her in the night

“Oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
Nothing stands between us here
And I won’t be denied”
he is saying there is nothing that will stop him from having her and he wont let her deny him no matter what it takes.

i agree that this is a beautiful song, but after you really understand the meaning of the lyrics and know the fact that this was written by an obviously mentally ill person it no longer is a love song or anything romantic. it is her stalker threatening her and talking about killing her. its not romantic, its just creepy

This kind of stuff is all over the net, and because like songmeanings, these people adding nothing to a [stolen ] lyric except claim what I am saying: use this for Education Only. Thing is, as you can see below as Songmeanings.com, lyrics365.com ads NO CONTENT OF THEIR OWN – which is cool, because that makes all their “work” public domain:
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
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
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
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
Wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes

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Review about Possession
stalker 2 | Reviewer: tc | 11/3/2008

yeah, before i knew this is a song about a stalker, i thought of it as a beautiful song about some 1-sided intense feelings….ummmh…after i knew the truth….however, it is still a beautiful song no less..

stalker | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/2/2008

Did you know that the lyrics for this song came from the love notes she was sent by a stalker? she took the words from the notes and made them into a song, he tried to sue her for it to, seriously, cuz they were like his words or something, but he didn’t win, obviously

Acclaim for Possession | Reviewer: Joseph Morris | 9/12/2007

In this day and age, where we seek solitude to find ourselves, I was taking time alone to reflect on my life, I was listening to Sara M. and that song came on “Possession” and it spoke in volumes to me, every word, every key note that her voice hit sprang an emotive part of me that was so deep that it actually made me ache for love. A love so deep that its hard to fathom. Her creativity and her music makes you yearn for more, I love you is also a brilliant song, Sarah, YOU ROCK, and always will, so inspiring that song is always near my heart to this day, -Joseph D. Morris

Possession Grows Stronger | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/24/2007

Sarah’s voice is wonderful, but her poetry is just was wonderful. The way she sings this song, in varying versions, sends chills up my spine. It reminds me of someone very special, and even before this person came into my life, I loved the song. Now the great divide has a specific meaning for me, and my body aches to breathe her breath. It’s just a beautiful song.

Possession Grows | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/24/2007

Sarah’s voice is wonderful, and her poetry is just was wonderful. The way she sings this song, in varying versions, sends chills up my spine. It reminds me of someone very special, and even before this person came into my life, I loved the song. Now the great divide has a specific meaning for me, and my body aches to breathe her breath. It’s just a beautiful song.

Beautiful | Reviewer: Skadi | 4/24/2007

This song is one of my favorites from Sarah McLachlan.

She is an awesome artist, I love this song, the way she sings and all about it.

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