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Fucked Up

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Album: One Day (2023)
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The album also opens with “Found” which chronicles how Indigenous people have been displaced and murdered to build highways and “temples of police and landlords to worship money.”

Fucked Up


The track was inspired by guitarist Mike Haliechuk’s experiences living on one of the oldest streets in North America and his observations of the tragic consequences of colonization and gentrification.

“I used to live on Davenport Road, which is one of the oldest streets in North America and has been a First Nations trail for thousands of years, running along the north shore of Lake Iroquois, which receded after the last ice age,” Haliechuk explained in a statement. “Just to the east was Taddle Creek, which was buried underground during the 19th century to build the streets I walk on. I thought about gentrification a lot, watching little stores get swallowed up by big buildings until I realized I am one of those big buildings.”

Daily Dose of Protest: Found – Fucked Up
My song is of time and memory
What we forget when we change the story
We took as much as our books could carry
And found a lie on the truth they buried
Safe keep in the sleep of poppies
Forget there was someone here before me
Build temples of police and landlords
To worship money, the god we pay for

There I stood on the shore
Of a story we don't tell anymore
All the names were erased
Buried under a land that my people stole

I had a dream where I stood in the water
Like the trees that grew with your daughters
Ships came full of sick and plunder
One day this will all be over
The creeks run like ghosts in the basement
Still alive coursing their displacement
Our seeds of eternal war
Lay buried in an unknown shore

There I stood on the shore
Of a story we don’t tell anymore
All the names were erased
Buried under a land that my people stole
Even the rivers run dry
Built a highway big enough to stop time
White clouds drift by
Over a country founded on a genocide

2023/2/18 - 00:05




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