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Cherry Coke
03:01
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Still I wonder where you go
Still I wonder where you hide
Still I wonder where I go
Hills I roam
Still I wonder where you’ll be
Still I wonder when you’ll find
Stay beside
Cherry Coke
Ontario
Still I wonder where you’ll be
Still I wonder when you’ll leave
Stay inside
Stay with me
Cherry Coke
Ontario
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2. |
Residential Military
02:29
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Birch bark canoe merges onto the freeway
No turn signal, how to switch lanes?
Paddle slower into slumber accelerator
Space - time - reflex and futuristic waves
Worker boy swimming out in the deep
Can’t touch bottom prehistorically
I’ll sit and stare as the crow comes into ramble
Fresh cut grass and tree stump in the yard
Gate at the drive is rusted and grown over
Ship and canoe is the soul of the archive
Take on water as you hear the sound of concrete
Residential military
White picket fences at the cemetery
Residential military
Residential military
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3. |
The Once Child
03:11
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Could you come in more than memories
Please haunt me in my dreams
I need a song to re-release
What a mess and sheer relief
Send me a charm
Send me a sign
When you do it
Do it for the once child
When we find
I’m not talking about drugs
I’m talking about you
Find yourself or lose the youth
So we can be safe
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4. |
Niiyo Biboonagizi
03:07
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5. |
Ogiin
04:15
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Feeling all of the evil
Hearing all of the people
Gather all of the children
Someone calling your name
Taken like the flower
Ruins crumble over
And I miss my brother
Someone calling your name
And my mother
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6. |
Spirit in Me
02:50
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You always knew what you needed to do
And the water is clean and it’s inside of me
And you don’t have to fear it you just can’t go near it
There’s some kind of spirit
There’s some kind of spirit
The spirit in me is my family
The past and the future
Together it’s nearer
To our prophecy
This resurgency
I’m hearing you calling
So I make this offering
Hey there Great Spirit
I just can’t go near it
This chip on my shoulder
Is worn to the bone
It’s our prophecy
The spirit in me
I look to the past after all that’s been cast
And whose land are you on
We’ve known all along
Get sewn back together
Yea we’re still survivors
My brother is crying
My sister’s been trying
My father surviving
Mother does it all
I’ll hear you call
I hear you call
You always knew what you needed to do
And the water is clean and it’s inside of me
You don’t have to fear it you just can’t go near it
There’s some kind of spirit
There’s some kind of spirit
The spirit in me
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7. |
Yaweh
02:56
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Yaweh Yaweh Yaweh Yo
Yayaweh Yo
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8. |
Birch Bark Paper Trails
04:43
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Wade it out
drown in doubt
Talk me down
sound aloud
Hold account say it pride
Round around wait it out
Wade on out
Round about
Talk me down
Sound aloud
Hold account
Sing it proud
Round around
Moon tide down
Moon tide doubt
Round and round
Wade on out
My family was on a Treaty
Three Fire’s Society
Our migration was such a complexity
These borders they kinda gridlock me
In my identity I do it for my family
My forefathers were Pottawatomi
Baskets and feathers and jail and schools
Three Fires Society
And I gathered up the receipts and traced the Birch bark paper trail
On an assimilated and “Removal Act” back
No band membership
Patriarchal ancestors and shit
I found you on my phone
And then I found you in the registry
Some roll buried in the archives
And mashed up in the mush bowl
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Zaagitoon
04:43
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And I’m wondering why
The hardened push and pull
Spend your days gone
Another lovers lost
And we
You
Ahh
Blue
Ahh
You
And I’m wondering why
The hardened push and pull
Spend your days gone
Another lovers lost
And we
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OMBIIGIZI Ontario
OMBIIGIZI – pronounced om-BEE-ga-ZAY, meaning 'this is noisy' – is a collaboration between Zoon (Daniel Monkman) and Status/Non-Status (Adam Sturgeon), Anishnaabe artists who explore their cultural histories through sound.
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