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In addiction recovery circles, people often say “Treat the trauma,” a phrase coined by
writer Gabor Mate, who spent many years working with addicts in the Downtown
Eastside of Vancouver. In “Aspirin for the Soul”, songwriter Francis Baptiste, grapples
with this idea of treating the trauma. Not everyone understands their own trauma, and
those who do often aren’t sure of how to treat it.

Baptiste has spent his entire life struggling with addiction, whether on his home Indian
Reservation as a member of the Osoyoos Indian Band, or in East Vancouver, where
he’s lived the last twenty years. He’s spent countless hours in talking circles, AA
meetings, and various treatment programs, trying to navigate a sea of trauma. “Aspirin
for the Soul” is about the struggle of not knowing how to treat the trauma, but instead
opting to numb the pain with substances, because as Baptiste says “I don’t know how
to fix my heartache, but I know how to fix a hangover.”

“Aspirin for the Soul” is the first single from Baptiste’s upcoming third studio album
titled Lived Experience in East Vancouver. The song and album focus on Baptiste’s
struggles with addiction and the drug and recovery culture that exists where he lives in
East Vancouver. The album, recorded at 604 Studios, features performances from
many Vancouver artists including Emmett Jerome, Wallgrin, Camellia Grove, Mike
Allen (of Five Alarm Funk),

Aspirin For The Soul

Walkin' With The Blues

Little Did He Know

Give Me A Reason

Grandfather's Country

Sweet, fleeting, and full of prairie sunshine — Picking Saskatoons is a folk song about jam-sticky fingers, summer memories, and the taste of home. Acoustic, heartfelt, and a little nostalgic. First single from Jackie K’s upcoming EP.

Picking Saskatoons

Guest George Manual jr plays recording of late father George Manual Sr
Live on location call in Alex and Nikky from The Tiny House Warriors Village w/ Kanahus Manual

Episode 3 July 11/11 (Podcast)

In my bed I’ve been floating 
In this deep deep deep ocean 
Cause I feel like I’m drowning 
And my phone just keeps blowing up

(ma ma ma ma lọ loke loke loke loke 
Even though my battery dey kinda low) x2
kinda low 
 
Getup get ya get ya ass up
I keep hitting snooze on my alarm clock
Why I’m alive ain't got no answers 
Depression on my mind is like a cancer  
But I gotta to be ready for action 
Never relaxing 
Get up and follow my passions 
Plot like assassins
Grind till my  pocket is handsome 
Flexin like branson
Leave something lit for my grandson 

so I kick tht duvet to the left to the left
you can't be left with regrets with regrets
past leave behind like cassette resets
everytime we wake its a chance never fret
every threat that in face i gillete
am still a cadet i arise cause my will is my jet.
aaahh!
Now wobble walk half asleep to the shower.
put some some soap in my hair never felt better. 

(ma ma ma ma lọ loke loke loke loke (ha ahhh!)
Even though my battery dey kinda low) x2
Ma ma ma ma lo 

Maday Maday Maday 
Eni polopolo polopo 
Maday Maday Maday 
Eni to ye mo o lopo
Maday Maday Maday 
Eni to ye mo o lopo
Maday Maday Maday 
O po po po 

Ma ma ma lọ loke 
Ma ma ma lọ loke 
If you see mami tell her it is ok 
Oya ka ọwọ soke, cause we the ak 
If they bring the fire 
Put it out like daddy shoki 
Lighting up the OG
Stacking up the benji
I be be mad depressed 
Yeah homie on a lowkey 
Can't look in the press (press press)
Everything is messed up

Some days can be sunny
but i feel so fugly 
It can be a struggle sometimes. 
I just want to pull it and blow up my mind 

Suicide creeping in my mind 
But i’m too afraid to try to take my life
so am steady on, focus on my grind
I gotta make the shit, that could blow their mind 

Ooh yeah
Loke Loke x
Baba Baba loke (ooh yeah) 
Ama doke 

lalala lala lele X2 
Malo be malo be   
lalala lala lele X2  
Malo be malo be  

Loke loke loke 
everything's A ok 
Loke loke Loke 
everything's A ok

iPharaoh

Golden

Wrote this song shortly after separating with my ex-wife. It was a really dark time for me, where I spent a lot of nights feeling sorry for myself, drinking too much, getting into all sorts of trouble. I never really wanted to be home, because there were too many memories there, so I spent a lot of time just out on the street, distancing myself from friends and sitting in pubs. I've cleaned up since then, thank goodness. This cover image was from the last time I got rip-roaring drunk. It's certainly not a glamorous life.

Time is the enemy.
We're fighting constantly.
And I don't think I'm ever gonna win.
Life is a mystery.
It baffles me every day.
And I know that I can never win.
But I feel it now, more than I ever did.
I don't think that this is ever gonna end.
When my head is spinning
it's just the beginning.
Feels like this fog is never gonna lift.

When the person who knows you better than anyone in the world
tells you you're not worth sticking around for anymore,
how do you get yourself through the days?
I don't know. I wish I did.

Pushing through busy streets I'm
walking aimlessly. I can't think of anywhere
I want to be.
The sun shines on endlessly.
These long nights pass sleeplessly.
I'm just looking for a place to have a drink.

I feel it now. I feel it always.
I'm gonna have to take it with me.

Divorce

She Flies In A U.F.O

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Strange Baby

An original tune called "Staring at the Ceiling"

All parts written and performed by Ian Cromwell
Recorded in Vancouver, BC

Staring At The Ceiling

Indigenous Singer/Songwriter. Music journalist for Vancouver Weekly, Permanent Rain Press, and Citrus Magazine.

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Aspirin For The Soul

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