[Verse 1] Nineteen-thirty-eight, born in Chicoutimi cold Duplessis runs the province, the Church runs the soul Sixteen kids at the table, the priest at the door Catholic school, Catholic hospital, Catholic poor The orphelins de Duplessis — children signed away Baptized into silence, no record, no say Rural Québec, the mill, the mine, the mud English boss on the floor, francophone sweat and blood *Speak white* — they said it like a verdict, not a slur Your patient heard that sentence, let it calcify and harden [Chorus] La Grande Noirceur to the Révolution tranquille Hydro-Québec, the referendums, the wound that won't seal Bill 101, the October Crisis, Saint-Léonard square You will never take a side — but you must know what is there Timeline: 1938, '45, Port-au-Prince '50 Every life a layered archive, nothing simple, nothing pretty Read the generation, not the symptom — understand the scar History is in the room before you've opened the chart [Verse 2] Nineteen-sixty, the Church lets go and the province exhales Laïcité creeping in through the hospital rails Your patient was forty and watched the whole altar dissolve A rupture, not a freedom — not a problem to solve The textile shop, the union card, the shift to the service floor Bodies used for decades, then unlocked from the door Early marriage, infant graves, babies relinquished in shame Hidden love, swallowed names — the silence with no name [Bridge] Now hear the Inuit elder who won't trust the form Residential school took the language before the storm Sixties Scoop, the Viens Commission, Joyce's Principle cried The institution wounded before you even arrived And the Haitian grandmother — double displaced, double erased Montréal-Nord in the seventies, Creole and French interlaced The Lebanese elder, the Maghrebi man, the Vietnamese voice Carried continents of grief before they made Québec their choice [Verse 3] Don't assume the anglophone wants English in the hall She spent sixty years in Rosemont, French is her Montreal The allophone in the francophone home, isolated and still Surrounded by a language that was someone else's will The 1980 referendum — sixty percent said non Your patient cried either way when the counting was done 1995, a paper-thin margin, a nation splitting seams Sovereignty deferred again into the province's dreams [Chorus] La Grande Noirceur to the Révolution tranquille Hydro-Québec, the referendums, the wound that won't seal Bill 101, the October Crisis, Saint-Léonard square You will never take a side — but you must know what is there Timeline: 1938, '45, Port-au-Prince '50 Every life a layered archive, nothing simple, nothing pretty Read the generation, not the symptom — understand the scar History is in the room before you've opened the chart
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