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The Sorrows of Karine Tremblay

from Goodnight from Horizon Rock by Allister Thompson

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“The Sorrows of Karine Tremblay" is based on the stories told in the documentary "The Fruit Machine," which describes oppression of LGBTQ2S+ people in the Canadian government and military. The title character is a "composite" of the real experiences recounted in the documentary.
More on the documentary at thefruitmachine.ca

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Karine Tremblay was a bright young girl
Born in Saguenay
She’d always had a dream
To serve in Canada’s army

Keeping peace around the world
And setting people free
So when they opened up to women
In the 1970s

Karine enlisted light of heart
She’d serve her country well
Little did she know she’d
Entered the gates of hell

Training was hard, but she was tough
Her comrades encouraged her
She made some good friends for life
Her future seemed assured

But Karine had a secret
That was best kept hidden away
For love between two women
Was called a sin in those days

They’d already tried to scour
Her kind from the government halls
But she never saw it coming
How far her fortunes could fall

One day they called her in
And interrogated her
They accused her of being many things
A traitor and pervert

She’d opened herself to blackmail
By hostile foreign powers
That was their insane excuse
As they droned on for hours

Oh no, she said, you’ll never make
A traitor out of me
Just because my love is different
From the narrow view you see

Karine wouldn’t give in
And betray who she was
So they ended her employment
For the good of freedom’s cause

They sent her to the psych ward
For electroshock therapy
She said I plan to take my own life
As soon as I’m out of here

But Karine Tremblay was born to fight
So she fought bravely on
Waiting tables in Montreal
Her dreams and youth now gone

It was only decades later
Up on Parliament Hill
They finally apologized
For all the dreams that they killed

Oh people of this cold, cruel land
What demon tells you lies
Till you crush all things so pure and good
And choke them till they die

All these people ever wanted
Was to be themselves
And to serve you however they could
So you turned their lives to hell

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from Goodnight from Horizon Rock, released May 14, 2020

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