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Centuries of Winter

from Centuries of Winter by Jakery

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Stories about my grandmothers experiences in he Holocaust, feeling moments of deep lover, feeling heart break, the zine "The Witch Child", the zine "Entropy", workshops at the Every Body conference in Guelph, friend conversations about ancestral trauma and healing, the ocean, tea lake and spring camping.

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opened my eyes
stopped lying with my eyes
truth and pain flew through me
centuries of surviving with our eyes
come with me my little child
we have so far to go
the storm is circling around its course again
come with me my little child
we have so much to see, to feel
the trauma lines stretch farther than you know
sow
grow
your seeds they came from plants before you
and before them too
they sometimes never got to see the sun
and here you are, in front of love,
they're asking for the truth
the only thing it seems that you can't do
the past spilling has got to stop somehow
{ } cannot escape ancestry
let me fall into the higher frequencies
and so we go now
to heal it up now
but i know that it takes so much time
healing doesn't work that fast
i had a taste of deeper loving
but it will take my some to make it last
opened my eyes
stopped lying with my eyes
truth and pain flew through me
centuries of surviving with our eyes
opened my eyes
didn't know these walls were in front of me
didn't know these walls were a(/)p of me
holding energy from deep ancestry

bursting open from our buds
welcome spring
bursting
open
welcome spring, and let the winter slip away x2
tear, gonna tear my walls down
share, gonna share my flaws, so that I tear my walls down
it'll tear, it'll tear their walls, their violent walls down
share, gonna share my flaws, so that i tear my walls down
and let the winter slip away

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from Centuries of Winter, released May 16, 2013
Written and performed by Jakery with Jakery on the uke and vocals, and with Hollie, Sorrel, Shay, and Nix66 on vocals during the spring part of the song.

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Jakery Halifax, Nova Scotia

jakery plays quiet, ukulele tunes accompanied by friends or sometimes shadows & puppeteers. his sets are often interspersed with personal stories & zine readings. the music is minimalistic & very lyrical, drawing on painful intimate verses about bodies, sex, & the feelings associated. ... more

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