The Best Place I Ever Lived

by Corbin Murdoch

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The Best Place That I Ever Lived

I was born into this city
Watched it grow up next to me
Barely 30 years
Into its second century

Now construction cranes are clawing back
Another square inch of sky
Can’t remember when my city
Stopped looking me in the eye

Let’s have one last round of drinks
Before they start tearing the building down
Cocktails are infused
With the last traces of Chinatown

Stumble home down side streets
That they tell the tourists to avoid
Streetlights in the puddles
Cut with traces of an opioid

People talk of leaving
Sometimes even I do
All I ever wanted
Was somewhere to belong to

Standing at the bus stop
Hoping for a Number 8
Standing on the sidelines
Hoping markets will self-regulate

Stand before the audience
Take care to acknowledge land
But not that its continued occupation’s
Part of our retirement plan

People talk of leaving
I wonder if we ought to
All I ever wanted
Was somewhere to belong to

It’s too late for the island
Too late for the valley
Studio or bachelor
Two-bedroom, single-family

Wealth as its own virtue
Land as its expression
A generation saves up
Towards its own dispossession

Cindy says she’s leaving
But where she’ll go she isn’t sure
They parcelled up a city block
And sold it out from under her

She says, “I stuck it out and gave this city
Everything I had to give
I’ll remember this apartment
As the best place that I ever lived”

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released December 4, 2020
Written by Corbin Murdoch
Produced by Corbin Murdoch and Jesse Gander

Guitar and Voice- Corbin Murdoch
Dobro- Tim Tweedale
Drums- Barry Mirochnick
Bass and Synth- Jesse Gander

Engineered and Mixed by Jesse Gander at Raincity Recorders
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

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Corbin Murdoch Vancouver, British Columbia

Corbin Murdoch is a songwriter who grew up and still lives on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. He was a member of The Nautical Miles (2003-2017), with whom he released five albums. ... more

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