Nana Grizol - Plantation Country (Official Audio)

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"Plantation Country" from the album South Somewhere Else
out June 19 on Arrowhawk and Don Giovanni Records
https://ffm.to/nanagrizol

Lyrics:

An order that confirms a license
A beauty that disguises violence
And oh we were complicit in our soft, insipid silence
The language that defines the landscape
The land descends into the sea
And try I might, I can’t unwrite
The worlds inscribed in me

You asked me did I know what I thought to be mine
I said all I had bought and built and stumbled on in time
And though I did believe the valence of my lines
a feeling lurked within, unnamed undefined

I did find comfort in the dream of simple pasts
Or found accountability to tough to task
And that’s a choice I make, a painful path not taught to take
A winning streak I best not break but I’m broken all the same

Inherited with my complexion
Little mirrored and no reflection
But my unmarked identities
Make claims at recollection

Stories that were told to me —oh—myths of modern ancestry—
Within a fence kept carefully, they made my world make sense
Or was it history books, were monuments just all it took?
The way the land retained its looks in preservation tense

We see these lies go sanitized, revised, returned again
Same stars arranged on different flags—new tourist logo pins
Oh Natchez and oh Destrehan, oh riverboat casino band
Oh sugarcane fields cross the land around plantation homes

The images encode aggressions
In answers that that evade the questions
False distance, fake nostalgia
And their calm, coercive lessons
And planters’ sons they make the laws now
The tourists disembark the planes
To go and spend their money
On a dream that nothing’s changed



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