Black & White

Sarah McLachlan · Surfacing [1997]

Unravel me

a distant cord

on the outside is forgotten

a constant need



To get along

and the animal awakens

and all I feel is black and white



The road is long

the memory slides

to the whole of my undoing

put aside

I put away

I push it back to get through each day

and all I feel is black and white

and I'm wound up small and tight

and I don't know who I am



Everybody loves you when you're easy

everybody hates when you're a bore

everyone is waiting for your entrance so

don't disappoint them



Unravel me

untie this chord

the very center of our union

is caving in

I can't endure

I am the archive of our failure



And all I feel is black and white

and I'm wound up small and tight

and I don't know who I am



Everybody loves you when you're easy

everybody hates when you're a bore

everyone is waiting for your entrance so

don't disappoint them



Everybody loves you when you're easy so

don't disappoint them



Don't disappoint them...