I thought you guys might be interested in this... Sarah McLachlan introduced it with this explaination at VH1 Storytellers...
"This is a song, basically um, another one of those few and rare occasions where a song came out very quickly and easily. It was from pure emotion. Um, I watching a, a documentary called a 'Promise Kept' it was made in Canada. It was about this woman who uh, discovered her fiance was HIV positive and basically the story followed her and her husband. They got married, um, and he got progressively sicker and she took care of him right up until the end, and she was telling her story with just such, y'know, beautiful clarity and honesty and uh, it just, it struck home in a way that I, I couldn't really describe except by writing this song and I really feel like it's a, sort of a, something that came out of me through her. This is called 'Hold On'."
I thought you guys might be interested in this... Sarah McLachlan introduced it with this explaination at VH1 Storytellers...
"This is a song, basically um, another one of those few and rare occasions where a song came out very quickly and easily. It was from pure emotion. Um, I watching a, a documentary called a 'Promise Kept' it was made in Canada. It was about this woman who uh, discovered her fiance was HIV positive and basically the story followed her and her husband. They got married, um, and he got progressively sicker and she took care of him right up until the end, and she was telling her story with just such, y'know, beautiful clarity and honesty and uh, it just, it struck home in a way that I, I couldn't really describe except by writing this song and I really feel like it's a, sort of a, something that came out of me through her. This is called 'Hold On'."
@soundofherwings thank you for this information. I have always loved this son and now I think I love it even more.
@soundofherwings thank you for this information. I have always loved this son and now I think I love it even more.
@soundofherwings Oh now that is very interesting! I assumed it was something she went thru because the song is so emotional and intense! lol
@soundofherwings Oh now that is very interesting! I assumed it was something she went thru because the song is so emotional and intense! lol