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Waiting for the Earthquake

from Blind Contour by Corbin Murdoch

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Waiting for the Earthquake

The contested territory where our culture sits
Has a nation painted over it
And when we close our eyes we see the shape of it
In our poetry, in our politics

In the prayers that we repeat on anniversaries
At the cenotaphs, in the cemeteries
In the lessons that we learned from the atrocities
For which we were named beneficiaries

Truth stood out on the blockade
Held it for a decade
We pretended not to notice it

And now we populate our platforms
With promises of reform
When the call is for abolishment?

Don’t mistake the way things are
For how they’ve always been

What should we tear down
In the meantime
While we’re waiting
For the earthquake?

The future we were told was preordained for us
Now seems mutable and precarious
Battle lines are drawn and boundaries readjust
Between what feels safe and what’s dangerous

Our city’s built of polished steel and poured concrete
Still it shifts sometimes underneath our feet
As we stumble home along its lonely streets
Past the phantoms cloaked in their thin white sheets

Now that we’ve all seen the violence
Broadcast into the silence
Of a nation under quarantine

Are we surprised that abolition’s
Just the starting position
Towards a reimagining?

Don’t mistake the way things are
For how they’ll always be

What should we tear down
In the meantime
While we’re waiting
For the earthquake?

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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- Tim Tweedale
Drums- Barry Mirochnick
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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