The McLachlan Review That would

The McLachlan Review

That would be Sarah McLachlan. I bought her new album, Afterglow, today. She hasn't had a new one since Surfacing in 1997. Mirrorball was released in 1999 but it was just live versions of old songs.
Anyway, I rarely give my opinion about an album until I've listened to it several times but I've already noticed something about Afterglow; it's not nearly as poetic and heartwrenching as Surfacing or Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.

One of my favorite songs is Full of Grace
Just read the lyrics and you'll see what I mean:

Full Of Grace

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

See? Lovely, isn't it?

Here is a sample of her new lyrics:

Would your love in all its finery
tear at the darkness all around me
until I can feel again
until I can breathe again

cause Im a train wreck waiting to happen
waiting for someone to come pick me up off the tracks
a wild fire born of frustration
born of the one love that gets me so high
Ive no fear at all

I don't know. Maybe I'm not being fair. I've been listening to her other albums for years and still find them fresh and beautiful. I probably just need to give this more time.

Posted by De at November 5, 2003 01:27 AM