Hold On (Sarah McLachlan song)

"Hold On"
Single by Sarah McLachlan
from the album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
ReleasedFebruary 1994 (1994-02)
Recorded1993
GenrePop
Length4:06
LabelNettwerk
Songwriter(s)Sarah McLachlan
Producer(s)Pierre Marchand
Sarah McLachlan singles chronology
"Possession"
(1993)
"Hold On"
(1994)
"Good Enough"
(1994)
Music video
"Hold On" on YouTube

"Hold On" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan. It was released in February 1994 as the second single from her album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993). In 2008, "Hold On" was included on McLachlan's greatest hits compilation, Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan.

McLachlan was inspired to write "Hold On" after watching a Canadian documentary titled A Promise Kept.[1] Speaking to the Huffington Post in 2014, she said: "I saw a documentary on a woman whose husband contracted the HIV virus and it was a great and tragic love story. She took care of him up until he died and her passion, empathy and strength was inspirational."[2]

  1. ^ Ronald d. Lankford, Jr (2009-11-25). Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s - Ronald D. Lankford Jr. - Google Books. ISBN 9780810872691. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  2. ^ "Sarah McLachlan on Her Influences and Inspirations | HuffPost". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-03-12.