Tara MacLean - Sparrow (Official Video)
Sparrow is the title song from my album with the same name. This new album is the soundtrack to accompany my memoir, Song of the Sparrow, published by HarperCollins Canada on March 14, 2023.
Listen to the album, Sparrow: https://ffm.to/sparrow-taramaclean
Purchase Song of the Sparrow: https://bit.ly/3FVMYip
Keep up to date with me at: https://linktr.ee/taramacleanmusic
About the Song:
This song is the thesis for the book “Song of the Sparrow”. It invites the idea that nothing is unforgivable, which is all I’m trying to peddle. Written on my new Martin Guitar right after my divorce, I felt free and alive deep in my heart when I wrote this. Like an arrow in a bow.
I love sending new songs into the world.
About the video:
I really wanted Catherine MacLellan to direct this music video and I was thrilled when she agreed! I am such a fan of her music and her filmmaking; she and I are like sisters. Some of the footage for Sparrow was partly filmed at Lake Echo, Nova Scotia by Melanie Stone the previous spring. She captured powerful moments of creating the recording with Daniel Ledwell. Back on PEI, Catherine and I spent a day together walking along the shoreline, and sitting by the fire. We wanted to capture me in my natural habitat, comfortable and at home. She spliced that together with Melanie’s studio footage and voilá! I am so happy with this video as I feel it is the most honest capture yet of who I really am.
Director: Catherine MacLellan
THANK YOU to Factor Canada for funding this video. I am grateful for the support of Sony Music Publishing Canada and Music PEI in their support to helping me create this album, SPARROW.
LYRICS:
Sparrow
written by Tara MacLean
Spent my life
Looking for a missing piece
Desperate for some release
I heard a call
From deep inside
I was lonely I was tired
I was empty uninspired
I hit a wall
Something held me
Showed me to myself
Spent last night
Lookin’ for you in my bed
But you left before I said that you could go
Scream and shout
“til I’m pity partied out
Looking more like I’m about to be alone
Something changed me
Saved me from myself
It’s the arrow in the bow
The sparrow and the song
The marrow in the bone
Nothing’s unforgivable
When you let go
Sparrow
Spent my money on a guitar and a pen
And a book to write it in
So I could find
All along I was just missing a song
I had everything I needed all this time
Somehow I am
Finally myself
It’s the arrow in the bow
The sparrow and the song
The marrow in the bone
Nothing’s unforgivable
When you let go
Sparrow
Sparrow
When the bow breaks
Way up high
You can fall or you can fly
Trust the wind
Trust the wind and open sky
It’s the arrow in the bow….
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.
Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.