Songwriter: Sarah McLachlan
Producer: Pierre Marchand
[Verse 1]
Under a blackened sky
Far beyond the glaring streetlights
Sleeping on empty dreams
The vultures lie in wait
You lay down beside me then
You were with me every waking hour
So close I could feel your breath
[Chorus]
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold
That precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years
[Verse 2]
Pressed up against the glass
I found myself wanting sympathy
But to be consumed again
Oh I know would be the death of me
And there is a love that's inherently given
A kind of blindness offered to appease
In that light of forbidden joy
Oh I know I won't receive it
[Chorus]
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years
[Verse 3]
You know if I leave you now
It doesn't mean that I love you any less
It's just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this
[Chorus]
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years
Under a blackened sky
Far beyond the glaring streetlights
Sleeping on empty dreams
The vultures lie in wait
You lay down beside me then
You were with me every waking hour
So close I could feel your breath
[Chorus]
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold
That precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years
[Verse 2]
Pressed up against the glass
I found myself wanting sympathy
But to be consumed again
Oh I know would be the death of me
And there is a love that's inherently given
A kind of blindness offered to appease
In that light of forbidden joy
Oh I know I won't receive it
[Chorus]
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years
[Verse 3]
You know if I leave you now
It doesn't mean that I love you any less
It's just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this
[Chorus]
When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years
more tracks from the album
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Legacy Edition)
- Possession
- Possession (piano version)
- Good Enough
- Elsewhere (Freedom Sessions)
- Plenty (Freedom Sessions)
- Mary (Freedom Sessions)
- Good Enough (Freedom Sessions)
- Hold On (Freedom Sessions)
- “Ice Cream” (Freedom Sessions)
- Sarah McLachlan ice freedom sesisons
- Ol’ 55
- Hold On
- Ice Cream
- Wait
- Fear
- Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
- Elsewhere
- Mary
- Circle
- Plenty
- Ice
- Hold On (Short Version)
From the albums
Sarah McLachlan popular songs
- Angel
- Angel (Acoustic)
- When She Loved Me
- I Will Remember You
- Building a Mystery
- Adia
- Sweet Surrender
- Possession
- Fallen
- World on Fire
- Prayer of Saint Francis (Traditional)
- Prayer of St. Francis
- Answer
- I Love You
- Out of the Shadows
- Push (Live)
- What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
- Unchained Melody
- Train Wreck
- Fear
- I Will Not Forget You
- U Want Me 2
- Find Your Voice
- Perfect Girl