Song Review
Tonight’s post features another tune from the two-time Polaris Music Prize nominated Calgarian Chad VanGaalen. City of Electric Light can be found on VanGaalen’s third full-length album Soft Airplane, released in September of 2008. In 2007, VanGaalen’s Skelliconnection album was short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize, eventually bowing out to the winner Close to Paradise, from Patrick Watson. This year, Soft Airplane goes up against an array of amazing Canadian albums from the likes of Metric, Joel Plaskett, Hey Rosetta!, Great Lake Swimmers, and once again Patrick Watson.
And I thought you were the moon in the sky
But it turned out you were just a street light
You were burning like a hole in the night
You were burning like a city of electric light
You were burning like a city of electric light
You were burning like a city of electric light
You were burning like a city of electric light
And I thought you were the moon in the skies
But it turned out you were just a pair of eyes
You were lurking like a creature in the night
You were looking like a city of electric light
You were looking like a city of electric light
You were looking like a city of electric light
You were looking like a city of electric light
Hanging by a field
Hanging in your sleep
Hanging in a dream
Oh oh oh oh…
He connect the stars
Every single one
Hanging like the sun
Oh oh oh oh…
And I thought you were the moon in the sky
But it turned out you were just a street light
You were burning like a hole in the night
You were burning like a city of electric light
You were burning like a city of electric light
You were burning like a city of electric light
You were burning like a city of electric light
