Lyrics

The winter here is cold, and bitter
It’s chilled us to the bone
I haven’t seen the sun for weeks
Too 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
Through all the darkness
I feel like letting go…

Follow the strength and follow the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I can love you much better than this
Full of grace, full of grace my love

It’s better this way, I said
Having seen this place before
Where everything we say and do hurts us all the more
It’s just that we stayed
Too long in the same old sickly scheme
I’m pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
Through all the darkness….
I feel like letting go

Follow the strength and follow the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I can love you much better than this

Full of grace
I know I can love you much better than this
But, it’s better this way…

 

Appears on

Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff (1996)
Surfacing (1997)

 

Versions

Album Version
from “Surfacing”
Track length: 3:41

Fall From Grace Version
from “Under A Blackened Sky Bootleg”
Track length: 5:21

Past Tense Version
from ???
Track length: ???

 

Compilations

Credits

Vocals, Piano: Sarah McLachlan
Keyboards: Pierre Marchand
Percussion: Ash Sood

 

Collaborations

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Trivia/Notes

– Sarah wrote Full Of Grace around 1995, and sang it during her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy tour. The song was then called “Fall From Grace”.
– You can download the early version at the Other Stuff/Multimedia section.
– There is also a version with the lyrics in past tense.

 

Sarah says

“That’s one of the most depressing songs I’ve written to date. I had just been through a really hard time with the person I was with, sort of coming to an end and neither of us really wanted to admit it–it was really hell on both of us. That song came out of a feeling of sinking. You know: I don’t know how to get out of this and neither does the other person, but it’s just horrible–it’s swallowing us both up whole.”
– Mondo2000, Winter 96/Spring 97

 

Video

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