Possession
Sarah McLachlan
Mirrorball live - 1999

Listen as the wind blows
from across the great divide
Voices trapped in yearning
memories trapped in time
The night is my companion
and solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here
and not be satisfied

And I would be the one
to hold you down
kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
and after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes dear

Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed
Trying to find an honest word
to find the truth enslaved
Oh you speak to me in riddles and
you speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath
you words keep me alive

And I would be the one...

Into this night I wander
it's morning that I dread
Another day of knowing of
the path I fear to tread
Oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
Nothing stands between us here
and I won't be denied

And I would be the one...

The reason her work and life were even mentioned in the same sentence is also the reason her music is so enrapturing: they are inseparably entertwined.
Her song, "Possession," from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, is a perfect, if somewhat disturbing, example. For three years she was stalked by a computer programmer from Ottawa named Alfredo Mamaní. Eventually she was forced to get a restraining order against him, after which she wrote "Possession." This was not the end of the story, however. The stalker filed a lawsuit against McLachlan regarding the song, claiming "breach of confidence." The suit was dismissed, and the man subsequently committed suicide in December, 1994.
In an interview in Rolling Stone three years later, Ms. McLachlan adds, "And this one person wasn't the only guy ... there were a lot of letters from other people saying the same kind of thing ... Writing the song 'Possession' was very therapeutic."