Mourning Keeps Coming Back - The Students of Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School feat. Cris Derksen, Nicholas Ferrio, Ansley Simpson, July Talk, and Broken Social Scene
Studio Version of "Mourning Keeps Coming Back" which was performed live by the students from Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in the documentary Spirit to Soar.
"In late November 2017, the New Constellations Tour, a Nation(s)wide tour of music and arts, pulled into Thunder Bay. Before their performance, the touring artists spent the day at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School doing workshops with the students. Peterborough Songwriter Nick Ferrio joined Leah Fay and Peter Dreimanis of July Talk to do a songwriting workshop. In collaboration with the students attending the workshop, they came up with the beginning of what would become Mourning Keeps Coming Back. DFC High School services dozens of Indigenous communities near and far from Thunder Bay that don't have a high school, the students travelling away from home and living in boarding homes in order to get a high school education. After the tour, Ferrio, Fay and Dreimanis kept in touch with the staff and students at the school and joined other New Constellations artists Cris Derksen and Ansley Simpson on a studio session with Broken Social Scene to record a musical bed track to the song that they had written with the students. Then, Ferrio, Fay and Dreimanis travelled back to DFC to record the students singing and performing guitar and keys on the track at the school. During a school trip to Toronto and Ottawa in May, the students finished recording and mixing the track at Dreamhouse Studios. The artists involved in the New Constellations Tour look forward to a lasting friendship with DFC, as the school works toward the funding and construction of a new school and living centre in the coming years."
lyrics
MOURNING KEEPS COMING BACK
I used to be this girl that made everybody smile
Take a breath through this cigarette
I can’t stand the taste of this town
Mourning keeps coming back
Mourning keeps coming back
I can’t stand the taste of this town
Mourning keeps coming back
Mourning keeps coming back
I can’t stand the taste of this town
Constellations right over our broken hearts
In this town
Constellations right over our broken hearts
In this town
This town is so large but the hearts are so small
I wonder if some of these people even have hearts at all
Racism here is strong perhaps maybe stronger than all
Lurking us through the mall
These people expect us to fall
I used to be hard to define
You tried to make me disappear
Water stained with blood
Flood the rivers with my fears
Keep on waiting for a change
Beauty never lasted here
Sometimes I don’t even know what to do
Maybe cuz of too much school
Being away from home you know but DFC is like a second home
Always ‘bout the positivity never the negativity
Thunder Bay is our only way out
Mourning keeps coming back
(It’s our only way out)
Mourning keeps coming back
(It’s our only way out)
I can’t stand the taste
(It’s where it’s at now)
Of this town
(Keeps coming back now)
Mourning keeps coming back
(It’s our only way out)
Mourning keeps coming back
(It’s our only way out)
I can’t stand the taste
(It’s where it’s at now)
Of this town
(Keeps coming back now)
Constellations right over our broken hearts
Mourning keeps coming back
In this town
Mourning keeps on coming back
Mourning keeps on coming back
Mourning keeps on coming back
Keeps on keeps on coming back
Constellations right over our broken hearts
Mourning keeps coming back
In this town
In this town
In this town
credits
from Spirit to Soar (Music from the Documentary),
released September 24, 2021
A song by: Joel Aganash, Alexis Angeconeb , Kayden Angeconeb, Dazelle "AJ" Beardy, Broken Social Scene, Greg Chomut, Aleena Crowe , Donovan Day, Cris Derksen, Peter Dreimanis + Leah Fay of July Talk, Nick Ferrio, Lester Gliddy, Jaylene Harper, Haley Jeremiah-McNeil, Jordyn Johnup, Gloria Mawakeesic, Nathan Meekis, Hailey Morris, Latisha Pascal, Latoya Pemican, Alaina Sakchekapo, Ansley Simpson.
Ansley Simpson is an award-winning Anishinaabe singer-songwriter from Toronto, and a member of Alderville FN. A weaver of
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