Sarah McLachlan

Push

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Every time I look at you the world just melts away
All my troubles all my fears dissolve in your affections
You've seen me at my weakest but you take me as I am
And when I fall you offer me a softer place to land

You stay the course you hold the line you keep it all together
You're the one true thing I know I can believe in
You're all the things that I desire you save me you complete me
You're the one true thing I know I can believe

I get mad so easy but you give me room to breathe
No matter what I say or do 'cause you're too good to fight about it
Even when I have to push just to see how far you'll go
You won't stoop down to battle but you never turn to go

There are times I can't decide when I can't tell up from down
You make me feel less crazy when otherwise Id drown
But you pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm ok
sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day

You stay the course you hold the line you keep it all together
You're the one true thing I know I can believe in

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winteronyx On May 10, 2004

I get mad so easy but you give me room to breathe
No matter what I say or do 'cause you're too good to fight about it 
Even when I have to push just to see how far you'll go
You won't stoop down to battle but you never turn to go

There are times I can't decide when I can't tell up from down
You make me feel less crazy when otherwise Id drown
But you pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm ok 
sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day

You stay the course you hold the line you keep it all together
You're the one true thing I know I can believe in

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ssejhill

2019-01-25 14:12:41

WinterOnyx

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2004-05-10 08:36:46

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by dontstop

22y ago

This is a very, very sweet love song.. (awww..)

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by Hummingbird

21y ago

Love this song. Sarah wrote this one for her husband after she went through post-natel depression, its lovely.

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by cay15

21y ago

What a love song, it's so powerful. "You've seen me at my weakest but you take me as I am... And when I fall you offer me a softer place to land."

That is how I feel about my best friend who was there for me through depression, and tried to help me anyway he possibly could. "I get mad so easy, but you give me room to breathe. No matter what I say or do, 'cause you're too good to fight about it ."
That line is so true for me, because through depression I would cry and be so upset and yell for no reason, and he would take it all for me, and never leave me.

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by madeline19

20y ago

my favorite song of sarah!!

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by blondt

19y ago

cay, that best friend of yours, marry him! this is indeed a very sweet little song, not one of her most meaningful maybe, but no less emotion and sincerity in her voice, which is why i am in total awww of sarah mclachlan

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by dream_4evr_angel

19y ago

This song of hers, is one of the most special to me. it has great meaning for me and my husband. when we were just dating, i was under a lot of stress and sometimes i would get really emotional, but he helped me through, he is everything to me. I think this song can really have meaning for everyone, especially when we all think back to times when we were the hardest on the ones we love, but they are always there with love and a listening ear.

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by tynanner

18y ago

This is going to be the first song I dance to at my wedding. This song says everything I want to but I could never find the words.

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by ssejhill

7y ago

These are the wrong lyrics for the song "Push." These are the lyrics for "I Will Remember." I just submitted a correction to the lyrics.

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