diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index cadd1ad7c..af5ca03ec 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ fn main() {
             src_dir: "vendored_parsers/tree-sitter-cmake-src",
             extra_files: vec!["scanner.c"],
         },
+        TreeSitterParser {
+            name: "tree-sitter-commonlisp",
+            src_dir: "vendored_parsers/tree-sitter-commonlisp-src",
+            extra_files: vec![],
+        },
         TreeSitterParser {
             name: "tree-sitter-dart",
             src_dir: "vendored_parsers/tree-sitter-dart-src",
diff --git a/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs b/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs
index b25f56d38..68fbd0c10 100644
--- a/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs
+++ b/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ extern "C" {
     fn tree_sitter_apex() -> ts::Language;
     fn tree_sitter_clojure() -> ts::Language;
     fn tree_sitter_cmake() -> ts::Language;
+    fn tree_sitter_commonlisp() -> ts::Language;
     fn tree_sitter_dart() -> ts::Language;
     fn tree_sitter_devicetree() -> ts::Language;
     fn tree_sitter_elisp() -> ts::Language;
@@ -225,8 +226,7 @@ pub(crate) fn from_language(language: guess::Language) -> TreeSitterConfig {
             }
         }
         CommonLisp => {
-            let language_fn = tree_sitter_commonlisp::LANGUAGE_COMMONLISP;
-            let language = tree_sitter::Language::new(language_fn);
+            let language = unsafe { tree_sitter_commonlisp() };
 
             TreeSitterConfig {
                 language: language.clone(),
diff --git a/vendored_parsers/tree-sitter-commonlisp-src b/vendored_parsers/tree-sitter-commonlisp-src
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..2daf16a55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendored_parsers/tree-sitter-commonlisp-src
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tree-sitter-commonlisp/src
\ No newline at end of file