This whole album is perfection.Still don't quite understand how such talent and beauty exist. To be able to write&sing on a different level of consciousness, wow
This has always been my go-to for heartbreak. I never thought I’d need to hear this song again, my husband and I have been together 15 years. Just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. He started drinking again... again.. and I have to walk away to protect my own sobriety. Once again, I seek out the comfort of this song while my heart begins the final phase and allows acceptance to set in. So if this too is your go-to heartbreak song... know that with acceptance comes peace
I'm pretty sure there's no other vocalist I would rather stare at while listening to her music than Sarah. That face, those eyes, the raw emotion and soulful expressions. Woman... You've made me melt since I discovered you in 1993
“This is going to hurt like hell” I first heard this song when my father was dying of cancer. The lyrics express my feelings at the time, not wanting him to suffer but praying I could have just one more day with him. It is a lot easier to listen to it now, a couple of decades later. It still brings up the emotions but the pain is less.
Yes the words express everything that comes into your mind when well… my son died in my arms a year ago Sunday at 35. This is the first song that came to my mind. And if you look up this song she wrote for a woman who was losing her husband
Per Wiki: 'McLachlan was inspired to write "Hold On" after watching a Canadian documentary titled A Promise Kept.[1] Speaking to the Huffington Post in 2014, she said: "I saw a documentary on a woman whose husband contracted the HIV virus and it was a great and tragic love story. She took care of him up until he died and her passion, empathy and strength was inspirational." Love is not what is said. Love is what is shown.
Is she still alive? My son died in my arms heart failure at 35. This is the only song I could think of that expressed my feelings at the time at 2am after the ME took him aay
@@cindywuollet1 I’m so sorry. I can’t even imagine. Yes, my daughter is still alive & was diagnosed 2 more times. The radiation from the original cancer caused her to have breast & thyroid cancer. She had to undergo a double mastectomy & removal of her thyroid, but thank you God she’s still here.
@@cindywuollet1 She did. She’s been diagnosed 2 more times - a side effect from the radiation- with breast & thyroid- had a double mastectomy & her thyroid removed, but she’s here, healthy, happy & is now pregnant with my first grandchild! We were told that was nearly impossible, but here she is! Thank you for your concern.
I listened to this song and album while my brother was passing away and I was going through a divorce. It gave me great comfort, but still makes me cry when I hear it.
Of course it does. My son died in my arms a year ago Sunday June 12. This is the song that I thought of played over and over at 2 am after the ME took him away in a black bag
She really is something...Just got better with time...The live version on Afterglow Live is just fantastic...Raw and live yet much more refined and natural feeling...an almost perfect country tune really...really sweet! We as listeners and distant viewers never really know, but she seems like a really genuinely sweet hard working naturally compassionate woman and a real creative angel......One in a billion voice ....
My fiance has cancer. She's fighting as hard as she can. The other night as she drifted asleep all I could hear ringing in my head was this song. Hadn't listened to it in years but there it was, waiting for me to find it again. Right when I needed it most. Thank you Sarah.
This hits home so hard right now, only pain and fear could inspire this beautiful song. The video is fantastic! it's two people trying to hold each up with their strength against the pain and fear
Thank SARAH McLACHLAN for your positive energy, and your unfailing heart. Michael. through your song Hold On, i have been able to deal with the lose of my twin brother JOE McSWAIN. THANK YOU for your Love, kindness and knowing all will be better the next day.
Shiobhan Smith, I may not know your story but because you liked my post, I Michael will pray JESUS brings peace to where there is emotional pain, and comfort to a long hard day. May the JOY of the Lord be with you tonight and forever more, with great love and joy!!! Michael
This song reminds me of my lost marriage.... it had its major lows.. I would pray to just see him smile. Its been over for 3 years and it still hurts as bad the day he walked out.
Sarah M. is another one of those rare exceptions of true art in today's lose description [and I mean 'lose'] of the word (art). She doesn't need a painted face, high-tech gear, back ground vocalists, dancers, ect. to prove that she is a talented person. Not only is she so; she and her gift are unique. Sarah, Alanis Morrissette, Bon Jovi, Jewel, Goo Dolls, Train, Lifehouse, Nickleback, Dave Matthews Band, Hinder, ...I'm going off the top of my head can't get em all in here, help.... all rock!!!
She is my angel from above, my twin brother just died in October and since then Sarah McLachlan has helped me heal from the inside and out. Her voice calms my soul and helps me remember how precious our lives really are. There has been a hole in my heart since he died, but sarah" song Hold On has been filling it back up with the love that just pours out of her just like the light of GOD that you see in her eyes. Thank You Sarah McLachlan. Michael McSwain
I saw her perform this live and she explained where the Song came from, it was about her friend going through withdrawal. She's amazed I cried through the entire set
*"Hold On" Lyrics* Hold on Hold on to yourself for this is gonna hurt like hell Hold on Hold on to yourself you know that only time will tell What is it in me that refuses to believe this isn't easier than the real thing My love you know that you're my best friend you know I'd do anything for you my love let nothing come between us my love for you is strong and true Am I in heaven here or am I... at the crossroads I am standing So now you're sleeping peaceful I lie awake and pray that you'll be strong tomorrow and we'll see another day and we will praise it and love the light that brings a smile across your face Oh god if you're out there won't you hear me I know that we've never talked before oh god the man I love is leaving won't you take him when he comes to your door Am I in heaven here or am I in hell at the crossroads I am standing Now you're sleeping peaceful I lie awake and pray that you'll be strong tomorrow and we'll see another day and we will praise it and love the light that brings a smile across your face... Hold on hold on to yourself for this is gonna hurt like hell
This song should be used as a reference when teaching the importance of song arrangement and dynamics. It builds so well, it's like build after build but somehow stays just enough.
Love: A sharing of the self Don't get swept away in the mind games of the heart Tomorrow is another day learn to love yourself What is love anyway but a sharing of the self... M.S. Morrison
Hold on Hold on to yourself For this is gonna hurt like hell Hold on Hold on to yourself You know that only time will tell What is it in me that refuses to believe This isn't easier than the real thing My love You know that you're my best friend You know that I'd do anything for you And my love Let nothing come between us My love for you is strong and true Am I in heaven here or Am I At the crossroads I am standing So now you're sleeping peaceful I lie awake and pray That you'll be strong tomorrow And will see another day And we will praise it And love the light that brings a smile Across your face Oh God If you're out there won't you hear me I know we're never talked before And oh God The man I love is leaving Won't you take him when he comes to your door Am I in…
Factoring in her incredible songwriting, vocal, and marketing talents...adding her beauty only convinces me we have Fae in our midst. And that pleases me to no end.
Hold on to yourself, this is going to hurt like hell… you were my best friend, the crossroads to heaven I loved the life that brings a smile.. Sarah McLaughlin has a wonderful voice and a message in her songs
Whoa, I just got to S15:E11 of Grey’s Anatomy where there’s a remake of this song, and I just bawled cuz this song pulls on every nerve, same today as it did 20 years ago. Oh man, I N T E N S E. 💗
I think this song was done because of two people she knew, a couple, the husband was fighting for his life against cancer. Don't quote me but I think I heard this at one of her concerts. She's an inspiration, I could never get sick of these songs.
It came from a documentary Sarah watched called A Promise Kept. About a husband dying from HIV and his wife caring for him. That is what Sarah herself says it is from.
Yes you’re absolutely correct about her writing it for a couple she did t know but read something about them. But she nailed it! My son died in my arms last year at 35 and after the ME took him away in a black bag I put this song on
Too personal to share why I like your Song ( Hold On ) looking up the year it was released, I discovered that we are born on the same day. So Sarah if you read this on January 28 happy birthday to us both and your song (hold on) Yeah it seems I should share something ..To me it represents A single night a moment of great choice.( Hold On ) playing in the background.ThankU So much Sarah M
I hope you know the back story of what inspired Sara to write this song. But she nailed it!!! For so many people who have had and have to lose a loved one. It puts into words what an individual thinks and feels when they experience the loss. She is definitely a song writer that gets it! I always liked Sara but it wasn’t until my 35yo son and best friend died in my arms a year ago. We always were into music. He was a musician and also served as an army combat we Owned a radio station for awhile. When the EMTs said the worst words I could have heard … I’m sorry. I got a bottle of vodka and this song 1:48 immediately popped into my head. I have such a library of music in my head. I just remembered the lyrics … what applied to my immediate situation…hold on to yourself for this is gonna hurt like hell. My only kid. It’s not supposed to be like this. I go first. This Friday he would have been 37.
THIS IS MY FAV SONG BY SARAH, i have been listening to her since i can remember in high school her music got me through so many trials and tribulations, she has all my respect... SARAH IS THE BEST,,,
my fuel that helps me believe is sadly running out. Though my love is strong and true... the mistakes (not cheating) will never be erased... so I too hope God hears me. As it isn't just about my love but my life as well.
She's nothing but mystic beautiful, delicately feminine and eager to please (starving, sick, unloved) children in numerous parts of the world w. donations, i.e. using her funds she built 12 medical clinic's in Africa's densest housing location (800,000 living in shanties, mud shacks in Kibera, Kenya which is only as big as Manhattan island). She's cosmic/mystic/divine feminine of the sweetest sort. Sings her heart out about every slightest breath of love, sometimes hurt by men, it seems. I've never been hurt by a woman yet, having never left a serious (weeks even) relationship (only had one - ended in marriage) myself... was always the one who left - for further, more personally liberating locations on the Pacific Rim. Now I'm merely one of those Sarah-like aspiring universal types,, too, albeit doing African global music and also a Lila Downs-meets-an-E. African duo of singers (Tsedenia Gebremarkos and Gigi, both of Ethiopia), at the moment (plus some Sarah-like water bass/water-worlds of love type music now, which is how I describe all the music I write. In the universe of all minds, first comes all encompassing feminine (universal mothers, sweethearts), then native, then all else, no?
I pray everyday but I pray for something real 🙏 and yes I feel but 💔 and I'm not letting anyone put up me I'm praying for my friend and it's pretty much everything that can be.on my mind
