The stunning song which plays as Buffy leaves Sunnydale in Becoming (Part 2) is by Sarah McLachlan and is called “Full of Grace”. It’s from her album Surfacing. The lyrics are:
The winter here’s cold, and bitter
It’s chilled us to the bone
We haven’t seen the sun for weeks
To long too far from home
I feel just like I’m sinking
And I claw for solid ground
I’m pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
Oh darkness I feel like letting go
If all of the strength and all of the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
Full of grace
Full of grace
My love
So it’s better this way, I said
Having seen this place before
Where everything we said and did
Hurts us all the more
Its just that we stayed, too long
In the same old sickly skin
I’m pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
Oh darkness I feel like letting go
If all of the strength
And all of the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
Full of grace
Full of grace
My love
Sarah’s song “The Prayer of St Francis” plays at the end of the season six finale, Grave. It appears on the bonus disc originally included with the limited edition double CD release of her ‘Surfacing’ album in 1997. The lyrics of “The Prayer of St. Francis” are:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
And where there is sadness, joy.
O divine master, grant that I may, not so much seek to be consoled as to console.
To be understood as to understand.
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
December 11th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
By the way, you really should give credit where it’s due guys. The lyrics to the Prayer of St. Francis are not written by Sarah, but by St. Francis of Assisi. You probably knew that, but it really should be posted somewhere.
December 11th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Douglas Adams was one funny guy. I rather liked the recent “Hitchhiker’s Guide”. Adams approved of the screenplay. Any idea if they are going to make movie versions of “Restaurant at the End of the Universe” and “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!”..?
December 11th, 2005 at 11:41 pm
For the most part, I am not much of a S. McLachlan fan, but these two songs are resonant, and were perfectly suited to the scenes in which they were used in BtVS.
At the end of “Crash”, there is a song that I thought was one of McLachlan’s…it’s called “In the Deep” by Bird York. Quite pretty…SM fan’s would be advised to check it out.
December 11th, 2005 at 11:47 pm
“The lyrics to the Prayer of St. Francis are not written by Sarah, but by St. Francis of Assisi.”
…and, in a related story, the estate of St. Francis sued the pants off McLachlan…
December 13th, 2005 at 3:41 pm
I love Family Guy. It’s not the smartest type of comedy, but it’s hilarious. I love Brian. And I love listening to episode commentary because when Seth MacFarlane talks it’s like Brian is commenting on the episode.
March 14th, 2006 at 10:18 am
I think Jess might be bothered by our off-topic commentary, but I must weigh in on the ‘Family Guy’ debate. The show is offensively funny, but substantially different from the humour of Douglas Adams.
McFarlane could never write a brilliantly sly line like, “[the spacehip hung in the air] in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
And Adams would not berate contemporary Hollywood in the merciless way McFarlane does.
(Wow, does this comment so not belong on this wonderful BtVS site. Sorry, Jess.)
July 18th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
In the deep by Bird York was nominated for an Oscar in best song category. It is a good song, I think it’s better then “It’s hard out here for a pimp” which won the category….