Tara MacLean - Let Her Feel The Rain (Official Video)

Let Her Feel The Rain video finds me in the 'nest' of my west coast home, Salt Spring Island, BC. This song is from my album, Sparrow released March 31st, 2023. The album is the soundtrack to my memoir published by HarperCollins available now.

Listen to the album, Sparrow: https://ffm.to/sparrow-taramaclean
Buy Song of the Sparrow: https://linktr.ee/taramacleanmusic
Keep up to date with me at: https://www.taramacleanmusic.com/

About the Song:
This is one of the first songs I wrote, laying in the backyard on the grass, rain pouring down. I felt so numb from heartbreak and I just let myself become rain. I went inside and wrote the words down that had come to me and this song was born. This was the song I was playing on the ferry when I was discovered by Nettwerk and played in the office for Sony Music Publishing when I got my deal with them. I recorded it as a one off for a compilation album called “Lit From Within” to benefit Rape Crisis Centres. I was told they began using the song to help in their therapy sessions, to unblock pain and release it. Knowing that a song I wrote had that kind of medicinal quality certainly changed the trajectory of my writing in that I learned that what healed me, could heal others. This song opened doors for me that I didn’t even know were there.

About the video:
I was excited to reimagine this song in the studio, as it is one of the first songs I wrote and recorded. I wanted to film in the nest on Salt Spring Island where I did the photo shoot for the book cover for Song of the Sparrow. Luckily, the amazing director Sydney Woodward agreed to film it for me, and so we have a moody west coast vibe that is very much a part of me. As an Atlantic Canadian who moved west, it felt important to capture my love for the rainforest that stole my heart as a young woman.

Director: Sydney Woodward

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:

Let Her Feel The Rain
written by Tara MacLean

Captured in a photograph
In black & white
Her hair brushes her shoulders
As she leans to turn out the light
She's warm and you can feel her
But she can't feel you
No she's just too numb to move

Captured in a photograph
Without a frame
I see you standing tall
But I see no face to blame
And did she say she loved you
Well you know that's really nice
Because they say that when she cries
Her tear drops turn they turn to ice

Let her feel the rain
Won't you let her feel again
Feeling through the pain
Won't you let her feel the rain
Upon her face
Let her feel the rain
Won't you let her feel the rain
Upon her face

Captured in a photograph
Inside her eyes
She'll wrap you in her blanket
And then she'll tell you some lies
And you will kneel before her
At her altar in the trees
Because they say no matter who you are
She'll bring you to your knees

Let her feel the rain...



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.