Tara MacLean - Lay Here in the Dark (Official Music Video)

Lay Here in the Dark is the fourth single my album Sparrow. This album is the soundtrack to accompany my memoir, Song of the Sparrow published by HarperCollins Canada.

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Directed by Nathan Sizemore
Assisted by Xan Sizemore from Confound Films
Filmed at The Broadview Hotel

Produced and mixed by Daniel Ledwell
Mastered by Archive Mastering
Vocals/ Acoustic Guitar- Tara MacLean
Guitars/Bass/Synth/Piano- Daniel Ledwell
Drums- Michael Belyea
Violin/Viola- Kinley Dowling
Cello- Natalie Williams-Calhoun

BG Vox- Jenn Grant, Kinley Dowling, Catherine MacLellan, Tara MacLean, Harmony Wagner, Alicia Toner, Sheldon Elter, Kristi Hansen

About the Song:
The song was written in the pandemic, during a breakup. It’s a song about how to get through the darkest times. This is a new song that is my testament for how I get through. It is an earnest call to find gratitude in the depths of pain. Produced with piano and strings and acoustic guitar, it leaves the listener with a sense of inspiration, and an understanding that no matter how dark it gets, we are never alone.

This is not only my favourite song on the album, it’s my favourite song I’ve written. One line in particular made me realize I am at a new level in my life. “Teach me how to bow when I am breaking.” How, in the middle of the greatest challenge, can we find gratitude for being alive? Even when we feel we can hardly breathe, even when the darkness is pulling us under, can we become the witness and see that it’s part of the essential training of strength and courage? Can we thank the darkness? Can we forgo the self pity and recognize the treasure in the pain? And in the song, I am speaking to Love. Love as an all encompassing force that is a limitless reservoir that we have access to when we need it.

About the video:
Making the video was amazing. Daniel Lanois, who is my favourite all time musician and songwriter, had listened to the song and gave me the idea to do the video in the dark, on a bed with a flashlight. I spoke to director Nathan Sizemore from Confound Films, who I was a huge fan of and had worked with before. He was totally into the concept and he nailed it. I got a room at the Broadview Hotel in Toronto and we filmed it in 4 hours.

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.

LAY HERE IN THE DARK - LYRICS:
Music and Lyrics by Tara Maclean

Turn the light out
Close the door
Looking at the ceiling from the floor
Sooner or later
It was gonna catch up with me
It’s only failure
If I don’t feel everything

And when the ground falls beneath me
I’m gonna fight
I’m gonna hold on to the edge
For dear life
I’m gonna lay here in the dark
Lay here in the dark
Lay here in the dark until it gets light

Love I hear you call
You don’t look like I thought you would would at all
Love you’re all I have left
In this unfillable night of emptiness

And when the ground falls beneath me
I’m gonna fight
I’m gonna hold on to the edge
For dear life
I’m gonna lay here in the dark
Lay here in the dark
Lay here in the dark until it gets light

Love, This is gonna sting
I can feel the wounds are opening
Cause love, you are everything
Teach me how to bow when I am breaking

And when the ground….
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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.