diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d7acf78..6eb9e1c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 build
 dist
 *.egg-info
-zeekscript/zeek-language.so
-zeekscript/zeek-language.exp
-zeekscript/zeek-language.lib
 __pycache__
 .idea/
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index f7dab51..0000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "tree-sitter-zeek"]
-	path = tree-sitter-zeek
-	url = https://github.com/zeek/tree-sitter-zeek
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 417703a..3dc22f3 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ repos:
   hooks:
   - id: pylint
     additional_dependencies:
-      - setuptools
+      - "setuptools"
+      - "tree-sitter>=0.21.3"
+      - "tree-sitter-zeek"
 
 - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
   rev: 23.10.1
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f7d5e6a..e8b232f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ keywords = [
     "parsing",
 ]
 
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 
 dependencies = [
     "tree-sitter>=0.21.3",
+    "tree-sitter-zeek",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
diff --git a/tree-sitter-zeek b/tree-sitter-zeek
deleted file mode 160000
index b1fdab4..0000000
--- a/tree-sitter-zeek
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit b1fdab493110b542a9deabecf911d8a148649fc2
diff --git a/zeekscript/__init__.py b/zeekscript/__init__.py
index cbc80d9..a744ff2 100644
--- a/zeekscript/__init__.py
+++ b/zeekscript/__init__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 """Wrapper around more low-level tests."""
 __version__ = "1.2.9"
-__all__ = ["cli", "error", "formatter", "node", "output", "parser", "script"]
+__all__ = ["cli", "error", "formatter", "node", "output", "script"]
 
 from .cli import *
 from .error import *
 from .formatter import *
 from .node import *
 from .output import *
-from .parser import *
 from .script import *
diff --git a/zeekscript/parser.py b/zeekscript/parser.py
deleted file mode 100644
index ae0d105..0000000
--- a/zeekscript/parser.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-"""This module contains parser tooling for the zeekscript package."""
-import os
-import pathlib
-import sys
-
-try:
-    # In order to use the tree-sitter parser we need to load the TS language .so
-    # the TS Python bindings compiled at package build time (via our setup.py
-    # tooling).  We use the following helpers when available (starting with
-    # Python 3.9) to locate the it. With earlier Python versions we fall back to
-    # using local path navigation and hope for the best.
-    # https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#file-system-or-zip-file
-    from importlib.resources import files, as_file
-except ImportError:
-
-    def files(_):
-        return pathlib.Path(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
-
-    def as_file(source):
-        return source
-
-
-try:
-    import tree_sitter
-except ImportError:
-    print("This package requires the tree_sitter package.")
-    sys.exit(1)
-
-
-class Parser:
-    """tree_sitter.Parser abstraction that takes care of loading the TS Zeek language."""
-
-    TS_PARSER = None  # A tree_sitter.Parser singleton
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        Parser.load_parser()
-
-    def parse(self, text):
-        """Returns a tree_sitter.Tree for the given script text.
-
-        This tree may have errors, as indicated via its root node's has_error
-        flag.
-        """
-        return Parser.TS_PARSER.parse(text)
-
-    @classmethod
-    def load_parser(cls):
-        if cls.TS_PARSER is None:
-            # Python voodoo to access the bindings library contained in this
-            # package regardless of how we're loading the package. Details:
-            # https://importlib-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#file-system-or-zip-file
-            source = files(__package__).joinpath("zeek-language.so")
-            with as_file(source) as lib:
-                zeek_lang = tree_sitter.Language(str(lib), "zeek")
-            cls.TS_PARSER = tree_sitter.Parser()
-            cls.TS_PARSER.set_language(zeek_lang)
diff --git a/zeekscript/script.py b/zeekscript/script.py
index 51d2c28..fb5bad4 100644
--- a/zeekscript/script.py
+++ b/zeekscript/script.py
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@
 import pathlib
 import sys
 
+import tree_sitter
+import tree_sitter_zeek
+
 from .error import FileError, ParserError
 from .formatter import Formatter
 from .node import Node
 from .output import OutputStream
-from .parser import Parser
 
 
 class Script:
@@ -55,7 +57,8 @@ def parse(self):
         except OSError as err:
             raise FileError(str(err)) from err
 
-        self.ts_tree = Parser().parse(self.source)
+        parser = tree_sitter.Parser(tree_sitter.Language(tree_sitter_zeek.language()))
+        self.ts_tree = parser.parse(self.source)
 
         if self.ts_tree is None or self.ts_tree.root_node is None:
             # This is a hard parse error and we need to bail. Smaller errors get