What I’m Listening To, part 18
The way these posts work is, I’m going to post the lyrics with my thoughts in between the lines like this.
Sarah McLachlan - Do What You Have To Do
What ravages of spirit
Conjured this temptuous rage
Created you a monster
Broken by the rules of love
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do
And I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
I don’t know how to let you go or how to get you out of my life, or my head, or my heart.
Every moment marked
With apparitions of your soul
The emptiness I feel in tandem with your absence is unbearable. Most of the time, I can hold the flood back. But there are times that the walls break and the flood comes out of my eyes in unceasing waves of misery. It would be easier to deal with, I think, if you were dead.
I'm ever swiftly moving
Tryin' to escape this desire
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
I want you all to myself. Just us. For the res of our lives. But that’s not possible. It will never be possible.
But I have the sense to recognize
That I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
A glowing ember
Burning hot and
Burning slow
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence
Of existing for only you
I’ve lived for you for so long, how do I live for myself? Why should I live for myself? Why should I go on? So the next man that comes along can destroy me, again, in the same way you have? No thanks.
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
And I have the sense to recognize but I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
(I don't know how to let you go)
I have to just give up and let you go.