Chris Velan - "City of Fur" (Official Music Video)

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Chris Velan

"City of Fur" is the third single from Chris Velan's forthcoming album, "Songs About Songs", out on May 19th. Stream/save/share/pre-order here: https://linktr.ee/chrisvelan

Video edited by Chris Velan
Special thanks to the Prelinger Archives for the footage shot by Henry Charles Fleischer at Expo 67 World's Fair in Montreal, 1967.

We acknowledge that Montreal is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

/// Credits:

All Songs Written by Chris Velan
(c) 2023 Chris Velan Music - Administered by SOCAN/ASCAP
Recorded at Mt. Sound Studio, November 2021 - June 2022
Engineered and mixed by Rod Shearer
Produced by Rod Shearer and Chris Velan
Mastered by Ryan Morey at Ryan Morey Mastering, Montreal, QC
Cover Art by Peaks
Photography by Valerie Boulet

/// Players:

Bass - Josh Toal
Drums - José Major
Keys - Jeff Louch
Guitar - Mike O’Brien
Backing vocals - Jason Kent + Josh Toal
Guitar + vocals - Chris Velan

/// Lyrics:

Tell me in your mother tongue
The meaning of the song we sung
I’m not old yet but I’m not young
What once was strong is fading
Island tethered to the shore
Do you know me anymore
One bridge will me to her door
With what I have left for trading

Come back to me
My city of fur
What we are now is not
What we were
Did I let you get away
I’m not sure
If I can stay
My city of fur

Over the mountain one more time
For something that I left behind
Looked everywhere but I still can’t find
Your new saints and sages
You knitted my broken bones
Your streets of neon cobblestones
What we all share but no one owns
Light up your darkened stages

Come back to me
My city of fur
What we are now is not
What we were
Did I let you get away
I’m not sure
If I can stay
My city of fur

Lodged inside the river’s throat
I can sing you note for note
Cross the ice and burn the boat
The outpost of our dreaming

Come back to me
My city of fur
What we are now is not
What we were
Did I let you get away
I’m not sure
If I can stay
My city of fur

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