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Turn This Song Over

from Blind Contour by Corbin Murdoch

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Turn This Song Over

Turn this song over
Consider its purpose
How much was gifted?
How much was purchased?

The pulse of a culture
Held in your hand
Feels distant as fathers
And their dreams of an unpeopled land

Dream of the future
Relive the past
But here in the moment
Our culture feels
Like we are touching it through glass

So we perform it
Like its imaginary
The backdrop against which
White women marry

Like something we try on
Whenever we want to
Dressed up for the party
One that we were not invited to

Excuse the question
So hard to tell
What’s our intention
Singing songs
The same ones that the racists sing
And some of this feels real
Some of it pretend
A conversation with a man
That you pay to be your friend

Getting close enough to touch
Using a digital zoom
Somehow it always disappoints
Like every photo of the moon

What’s the sound of this music
Unappropriated?
What’s the shape of this country
Repatriated?

Turn this song over
What could it become?
What might it offer
To those that it was stolen from

Dream of the future
Relive the past
But here in the moment
Our culture feels
Like we are touching it through glass

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from Blind Contour, released March 19, 2021
Written by Corbin Murdoch
Produced by Corbin Murdoch and Jesse Gander

Guitar and Voice- Corbin Murdoch
Voice- Rachel Tetrault
Weissenborn & Trumpet- Tim Tweedale
Drums- Barry Mirochnick
Bass and Organ- 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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