| Make My Heart Fly | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Proclaimers |
| Album: | This Is the Story |
| Released: | 8 February 1988[1] |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 2:44 (album version) 3:43 (single version) |
| Label: | Chrysalis |
| Producer: | John Williams (album version) Hugh Murphy (single version) |
| Prev Title: | Letter from America |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
"Make My Heart Fly" is a song by Scottish music duo the Proclaimers. Originally released on the band's 1987 album This Is the Story, "Make My Heart Fly" saw a more complete, full-band release as a single in 1988.
The version of "Make My Heart Fly" featured on This Is the Story was performed in the same stripped-back acoustic vein as the rest of the record, featuring as its sole instrumentation the backing vocals and acoustic guitar of Charlie Reid, and the lead vocals of Craig Reid.
For release as a single in 1988, "Make My Heart Fly" saw a longer version recorded with a full-band arrangement.
Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies covered "Make My Heart Fly" for their 1988 demo album Buck Naked.[2]
In 1989, Bill Wyman of Chicago Reader described "Make My Heart Fly" as "a painted love song [...] of heroic intensity" and "one of the high points" of the album.[3]
Album version[4]
Single version[5]