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One law is not enough. Gary MacHale is a white-supremacist from Richmond Hill who seems to be well-known for his activism at Six Nations and in Caledonia, gathering mostly white, non-native supporters to march on Kanonhstaton (the reclamation site). He and his cronies believe in "One Canada" and "one law for all" which is actually something Trudeau fought for back in the 1960s with the "White Paper". He didn't think of First Nations as legitimate or sovereign, and therefore did not think a treaty was appropriate or necessary. Such a simple form of democracy. It makes it so easy to ignore that the boundaries of Canada are not clean. Rather, they are rough with stray threads and holes like patchwork. The endless treaties we have signed that still hold up in court to this day unfortunately aren't worth the paper they were written on.

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KEY: Bm
4/4


INTRO:

Bm*(4) F#m(4)
Bm*(4) F#m(4)

VERSE 1:

Cm Bm

Strap it to my chest
My cage, my arms, my vest

F#m

This uniform is neatly pressed

Bm F#m

We'll spare some lives, regret the rest

VERSE 2:

Rub it in with oil and mud
And spit and blood
Is this not what we're all made of?
Your hair, your heart, your teeth, your lungs

VERSE 3:

You'll notice in the ways we move
They myths that grow
That root themselves beneath our homes
While cracked foundations creak and moan

VERSE 4:

It seeps in through your skin, your lips,
Your mouth, your tongue
The words you use in place of them
Ears that grow callous and numb

CHORUS

G F#

All in all, it hearts my heart

D Bm

As we go play-ing our parts

G F#

From white lungs, words come cheap

D Bm Em

It's not our turn to speak

INSTRUMENTAL:

Cm*(1) A#(3) A(1) Cm*(2) Bm*(2)

A#(2) A(2) G#(2) G*(2)

A#(3) A(1) Cm*(2) Bm*(2)

A#(2) A(2) G#(2)


Bm*(4) F#m(4)

Bm*(4) F#m(4)

VERSE 5:

One acre of suburban land
Gets you worked up
As make-shift barricades go up
'round half-built homes and streets of mud

VERSE 6:

One law is not enough
When our words have no weight
When treaties signed evaporate
As land beneath you changes names

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE 7; X2

McHale stands up like a preacher
Tattletale go tell the teacher
Cry-baby, dirty rat
What would make you act like that?

Law-pushing colonizer
What you say will not survive here
Even by your own good books
Even by your own good books

OUTRO:

G***(4) A*(4) G***(5) F#m*(1)

Em*(4) A**(4). Em*(4) A**

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from OVER THE ROAR OF THE ENGINE, track released January 1, 2013

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