Building a Mystery

"Building a Mystery"
Single by Sarah McLachlan
from the album Surfacing
B-side	"I Will Remember You"
Released	9 June 1997 (1997-06-09)
Length	4:07
Label	Nettwerk
Songwriter(s)	Sarah McLachlan Pierre Marchand
Producer(s)	Pierre Marchand
Sarah McLachlan singles chronology
"I Will Remember You" (1995) "Building a Mystery" (1997) "Sweet Surrender" (1997)
Music video
"Building a Mystery" on YouTube

"Building a Mystery" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan from her fourth studio album, Surfacing (1997). At a live performance, Sarah explains the song as being "basically about the fact that we all... have insecurities to hide, and we often do that by putting on a facade." She also goes on to say that "unfortunately, if we just be who we are, that's usually the more attractive and beautiful thing".^[1]

Released on 9 June 1997, the song was an immediate top-40 and adult contemporary hit, and it has received several accolades. Commercially, "Building a Mystery" was Canada's most successful single of 1997, topping the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart for eight weeks, and peaked at number 13 in the United States. "Building a Mystery" won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards as well as the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 1998.