Do what you have to do

Sarah McLachlan · Surfacing [1997]

What ravages of spirit

Conjured this temptuous rage

Created you a monster

Broken by the rule of love

And fate has led you through it

You do what you have to do

And fate has let you through it

You do what you have to do



I have the sense to recognize

That I don't know how to let you go



Every moment marked

With apparitions of your soul

I'm ever swiftly moving

Trying 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



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



Glowing ember

Burning hot and burning slow

Deep within I'm shaken

By the violence of existing for only you

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...)