Lyrics

Adia I do believe I failed you
Adia I know I’ve let you down
Don’t you know I tried so hard
To love you in my way
It’s easy let it go…

Adia I’m empty since you left me
Trying to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone to see where we went wrong
There’s no one left to finger
There’s no one here to blame
There’s no one left to talk to, honey
And there ain’t no one to bare our innocence

‘Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It’s easy, we all falter
Does it matter?

Adia I thought that we could make it
I know I can’t change the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
Your friend who won’t betray
I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
I show you all the beauty you possess
If you’d only let yourself believe

That we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It’s easy, we all falter, does it matter?

‘Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It’s easy, we all falter, does it matter?

Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
‘Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It’s easy, we all falter, does it matter?

 

Appears on

Surfacing (1997)
Mirrorball (1999)
Afterglow Live (2004)
Mirrorball: The Complete Concert (2006)
Closer: The Best Of Sarah McLachlan (2008)
The Essential Sarah McLachlan (2013)

Live EP 2004 (2004)
Live From Etown (2006)

Mirrorball DVD (1999)
Video Collection 1989-1998 (2000)
VH1 Storytellers (2004)
Afterglow Live DVD (2004)

Adia (single)
Sweet Surrender (Maxi-Single Disc 1)

 

Versions

Album Version
from “Surfacing”
Track length: 4:06

Live: Mirrorball
from “Mirrorball”
Track length: 3:59

Live: Mirrorball The Complete Concert
from “Mirrorball: The Complete Concert”
Track length: 3:51

Live: Acoustic
from the “Live EP 2004”
Track length: 4:00

Live: Etown
from the “Live From Etown”
Track length: ???

Live: Afterglow Live
from “Afterglow Live”
Track length: 4:02

Live: Live version
from the “Sweet Surrender” Maxi-Single Disc 1
Track length: ???

Radio Mix
from the “Adia” Single
Track length: 4:05

Smooth Radio Pass Mix
from ????
Track length: 4:10

 

Compilations

Credits

Vocals, Piano, Acoustic Guitars: Sarah McLachlan
Bass: Brian Minato & Pierre Marchand
Drums, Percussion, Background Vocals: Ashwin Sood
Keyboards: Pierre Marchand

 

Collaborations

Avril Lavigne
Sarah played this song together with Avril Lavigne at the Unicef Concert in 2007.

 

Trivia/Notes

– Nominated for a Grammy Award for best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
– The Single CD was certified Gold in America in July 1998.

 

Sarah says

Sarah has said in numerous interviews that she won’t reveal the identity of Adia. On her episode of VH1’s Storytellers, she explained Adia this way: I’m not quite sure how to explain this one, but uh…I guess more than anything it’s about my problems in dealing with feeling responsible for everybody else.

At many of the stops on the 1999 Lilith Fair tour, Sarah introduced Adia with the following Leonard Cohen poem:

For Anne
With Annie gone
Whose eyes to compare
With the morning sun?
Not that I did compare,
But I do compare
Now that she’s gone

 

Music Video