Building a Mystery

Single infobox
Name = Building a Mystery
Artist = Sarah McLachlan
from Album = Surfacing


Background = Blue
Released = 1997
Format = CD single
Recorded = Morin Heights
Genre = Lite Pop
Length = N/A
Label = Nettwerk Records, Arista Records
Writer = Sarah McLachlan, Pierre Marchand
Producer = Pierre Marchand
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Last single = "I Will Remember You"
(1995)
This single = "Building a Mystery"
(1997)
Next single = "Sweet Surrender"
(1998) |

"Building a Mystery" is a song by Sarah McLachlan, from her multi-platinum album "Surfacing", first released in 1997.

A fan favourite, the song was an immediate Top-40, Soft AC, and Hot AC hit which paved the grounds for her future songs "Sweet Surrender", "Adia", and "Angel", all from the "Surfacing" album. It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album version of "Building a Mystery," and the live albums "Afterglow Live" and "Mirrorball" contain the line, "A beautiful fucked up man". The radio version replaces this line with "A beautiful but strange man" or the original lyric garbled beyond recognition, and during performances on radio or television, Sarah sings the line "A beautiful messed up man."

The song was her biggest chart hit in Canada, spending eight weeks at #1 on the "RPM" charts and ranking as the #1 single of the year in the magazine's year end chart. It won the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 1998.

The track also made McLachlan the recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1998, beating Mariah Carey, Shawn Colvin, Paula Cole and Jewel [cite web |title="Grammy Awards for Best Pop Female Performance" on Rockonthenet.com|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/popfemale.htm|accessdate=1998-02-25] .

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