{"id":7488,"date":"2015-12-17T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2018-11-16T23:43:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T04:43:32","slug":"were-the-lyrics-to-sarah-mclachlans-possession-taken-from-an-actual-stalkers-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/12\/17\/were-the-lyrics-to-sarah-mclachlans-possession-taken-from-an-actual-stalkers-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Were the Lyrics to Sarah McLachlan’s \u201cPossession\u201d Taken from an Actual Stalker\u2019s Letters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MUSIC URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/span>: The lyrics to “Possession” were taken from actual stalkers’ letters.<\/p>\n

A few years back, I did a legend about whether The Police’s hit “Every Breath You Take” was based on actual letters that Sting had received from stalkers<\/a>. You can check that one out to learn whether it is true or not, but in any event, the legend inspired longtime commenter ParanoidObsessive to write in about how he heard the story “about how Sarah McLachlan wrote \u201cPossession\u201d based on actual stalker letters.”<\/p>\n

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