Jordan Smith - Sparrow Lyrics

Jordan Smith Lyrics

"Sparrow"
(from "American Song Contest")

Ooh

Who clipped your wings and put you down?
Whoever thought one word could tie you to the ground?
To those who told you what you are, and good enough
Let 'em know that you will rise above
Let 'em know that you will rise above

Sparrow
Up and fly away
There's a brighter day
We don't have to stay here anymore
Little sparrow
We can own the sky
There's a better world inside
We don't have to stay here anymore

I feel it sifting in the wind
With every morning comes a new day to begin forever
To those who told me who I am should disappear
You haven't seen the view from way up here

Sparrow
Up and fly away
There's a brighter day
We don't have to stay here anymore
Little sparrow
We can own the sky
There's a better world inside
We don't have to stay here anymore

Sparrow
Sparrow, oh-oh

You might be bending, but you're not breaking
You are a miracle in the making
So if you're falling, it's a change worth taking
On the horizon, the dawn is breaking

Sparrow
Up and fly away
There's a brighter day
We don't have to stay here anymore
Little sparrow
We can own the sky
There's a better world inside
We don't have to stay here anymore

(Anymore, we don't have to stay)
Anymore (Anymore, we don't have to stay here anymore)

Sparrow
We can own the sky
There's a better world inside
We don't have to stay here anymore

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Writer(s): Desmond Child, Andreas Carlsson, Jordan Mackenzie Smith

"I'm really proud of the song. I'm proud that I got to be super-involved creatively in the entire creative process from writing to recording to mixing and mastering. I've got to have a hand on all of it," said Jordan Smith of "Sparrow" in an interview with Rob Herrera backstage after his performance on "American Song Contest" on the 28th of March, 2022. "I wanted to, obviously, find places of this song where I could shine vocally but I wanted to do it in a tasteful way because for me the heart of the song is the message, it's the lyric. And I didn't wanna, like, show off and, like, take away from the message just for an opportunity for me to, like you know, do crazy things vocally. So, it was really interesting to, sort of, map out the melody of the song and the moments of this song in a way that we're gonna lean themselves to the message and to the way that it moves people more than just showing off as a vocalist. "

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