About the artist: Sarah McLachlan (1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range. As of 2015 she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Sarah McLachlan currently has one song in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: this track from the great 1997 album Surfacing was the first big international hit for her, helped of course by her fame as the organizer of the hugely successful Lilith Fair concert tour at the time. The song, a US top ten hit, is a great ballad about a former partner who is now living in misery, beautifully sung and with simple but effective instrumentation. The chorus lines "We are born - innocent" are among the most haunting ever penned. It is one of those songs that I find more and more impressive with every new time I hear it. Run time 4:05.
