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Ten Thousand Leagues

by Ten Thousand Leagues

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1.
Bern 01:44
my every breath comes with a gag i need you to show me it’s time for me to finally say i do have a choice i need you to know me it’s time for me to finally say i do have a choice
2.
Courtney 02:09
why sit still in this walking chair close the binds and let me itch it's so close, yet too far away the flash cards are now caught on fire i reach out to watch it burn it's so close, yet too far away the flash cards are now caught on fire reach out and stroke the flame i've locked the gate and already made plans for today
3.
Prat 01:31
guarantee glory for free refills, we're all children next to veterans sign me up, what i want is yours shouting from a widened box i'm learning to think like you and it stops right there no one asked to be loved the way you love
4.
Simon 02:05
the answer withheld and you try to hide it (erase the maps) cannot hear me, cannot see me (rewrite the histories) lead me outside certain ( new waters) unlearn the tongues we’ve been taught thank you for that rotten smell that sour taste in my mouth thank you for that rotten smell swallow it and spit it out skyscraper tower jenga set one, two, three
5.
I Hate You 01:22
it's so cold sitting in here choke on your own fucking art what's your reason for going on? and what will be your reason for leaving? read my reasons written only for your eyes i'm still tall standing straight up, back against the wall we can't do it ourselves and we're not sure why it drags us along
6.
Jennifer 01:51
you sing your song and i'll sing mine it's not an accident it's not coincidence the buried cross (roads) where we've met and leave off again, marked to show our present scars we won’t recognize your past nor allow your future more resources towards shackles bars, barricades, batons when teachers become jailors - you’ll save yourself and ill save mine its not an accident it's not serendipity it's not what we want it's what we've been told- you're allowed a piece of me it's not what we want it's what we've been told-
7.
Canada 02:39
no more excuses weekend's here just one more chance for there's a next time helpless against your velocity too tired, angry, accepting day by day I waited, For tomorrow I wait you hand me the moment once it's slipped from your hands i took the wheel while still half asleep two.thousand pieces missing and missed thank you and fuck, no more excuses no more next time In that room, pen to paper The words that meant so much, With an effort that now feels like nothing I remember, those bends in the paper. I remember those tears in the lines I remember those words. no more excuses no more next time laughing in the kitchen standing there smiling
8.
Hyphen-Youth 03:51
hyphen youth, carry on your back a 2000 mile scar 30 foot wall 12 generation stare carry on, a story told the hyphen holds you in between the golden lie, an ugly dream (the line unfolds into) a life written from the margins taught to carry it in silence more like a river bearing bodies more like a bloom of scars on burdened backs more like the curl of limb and lungs of orange hyphen youth, carry on ----------------------------------------------------------- i am here by your grand design i am here to paint new pictures i'm not the first and no longer the last so give me new lenses from which to burn to paint new paints why hide my color in a crowd (that's dead to me) where we come from holds weight i beg myself to paint new pictures embrace the future "When they demolish our homes, we turn the village’s graveyard into a home. They threaten to destroy it as well. Even if they do, we will dig graves in our own hands and live in them. We’ll protect our dead and they’ll protect us" -elderly Palestinian woman from Al-Araqib, a Palestinian-Bedouin village demolished 53 times in a three year period by the Israeli occupation

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released November 24, 2016

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If art does not remain a threat to the present conditions of our lives, it loses its potential for transformation. These songs alone cannot transform -- not written, not played aloud, and not shelved away at the end of this band. But, if they can serve as a vehicle for understanding our lives and our world, there is worth. Better still, if they can impact the material conditions for those that actively resist oppression at the hands of the state, there is worth.

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- 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, Gord Hill, PM Press

In solidarity,
Ten Thousand Leagues
11/24/2016

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Ten Thousand Leagues on this recording was:

Andrew Yeung
Mark Chen
Ramy Silyan
Jeff Day

Written between 2012-2014.

Captured to tape, transferred to computer, mixed digitally, and mastered by ear at The Atomic Garden by Jack Shirley in September of 2014.

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