Emily Barker - Feathered Thing (Official Music Video) @EmilyBarker

Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

From the album Fragile as Humans - OUT NOW! emilybarker.com/fragile

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Filmed by Charlie Miller | The Mono Grande
Edited by Shea McChrystal

Emily Barker - vocals
Tim Harries - piano, bass
Luke Potashnick - guitar microsynth, synths, Mellotron choir
Tom Visser - drums
Richard Causon - Hammond organ, synths, Mellotron
Rebekah Allan - violin
Laura Anstee - cello (performed by Emma Sheppard in the video)
Rachel Robson - viola (performed my Miriam Wakeling in the video)

String Arrangement - Tim Harries
Engineered by Josh Best-Shaw
Produced by Luke Potashnick
Mixed by Luke Potashnick
Mastered by Dick Beetham @ 360 Mastering
Recorded at The Wool Hall

The making of this video was assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body

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I went to the burnt-out woods
A tourist with some damaged goods
Remembered how the trees withstood
fires before

Blue wren in the monochrome
sifting through the ash and bone
reminding me if hope is home
then grief is a door

The quiet pause where dead ends burn
And new beginnings wait their turn

Indigo wing be the body I bring
to the door as before
feathered thing, a feathered thing
It’s so hard to let go, wanted to know
wanted to know you
with my body I stand on the ashen floor
let go your hand

I was hoping I’d forget
the possibility we’d met
where you were a ghost is left
and grief is a war

Wish there was something I could do
find a way to see this through
Did everything I could for you
there’s nothing more

The quiet pause where dead ends burn
And new beginnings wait their turn

Indigo wing be the body I bring
to the door as before
feathered thing, a feathered thing
It’s so hard to let go, wanted to know
wanted to know you
with my body I stand on the ashen floor
let go your hand

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#indiefolk

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$Emily Barker - White Geraniums (Official Music Video) ‘White Geraniums’ by Emily Barker is out now, stream it here: https://www.emilybarker.com/whitegeraniums Subscribe to Emily Barker’s channel for the latest music videos, behind the scenes, live performances and more: https://www.youtube.com/@EmilyBarker Emilys latest album Fragile as Humans is out now: https://emilybarker.com/fragile Stay in touch: Sign up to my newsletter: https://emilybarker.com/subscribe https://www.emilybarker.com/ https://instagram.com/emilybarkerhalo https://facebook.com/emilybarkerhalo https://www.tiktok.com/@emilybarkerhalo Theres a line in this song that carries most of the weight: I can sit in the pain, it still rhymes well with rain. Id had the idea that the video should simply be me sitting on a chair out in a field singing the song. On the day before filming the video, life once again - and this time quite literally - came breaking in; I was knocked off my bicycle in a hit-and-run incident, which left me with a fractured tibia. The filming plans were put on hold. Once I was able to hobble around in a moon boot, with a crutch, the video became about the struggle through real physical pain to carry that chair up a hill to a place where I end up sitting, looking out into the sun. Filmed and edited by Robin Bottrell Recorded at The Wool Hall with producer Luke Potashnick I can fall, face up I won’t kick, I won’t buck I can sit in the pain It still rhymes well with rain To be clear, you are gone Got the crossword wrong Red pen, red pen Thought we’d pull through I’m a backseat driver, I can’t stop you Throwin’ eight years, three months out the window White geraniums that won’t get watered It’s a lot to let go of I won’t call anymore About the crack in the wall About the bread that I burnt Or the rush hour to work There’s a note that I found In a book on the ground And it read as if we would pull through I’m a backseat driver, I can’t stop you Throwin’ eight years, three months out the window White geraniums that won’t get watered It’s a lot to let go of A lot to let go of White geraniums that won’t get watered It’s a lot to let go of A lot to let go of I can fall, face up I won’t kick, I won’t buck I can sit in the pain It still rhymes well with rain #indiefolk$

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