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about
The Burning Hell kick out the jams with a celebratory and wordy indictment of the hustle, the side-hustle, and all the personal and societal destruction that late-capitalism has wrought. Speedy rhyming references to Plato, The Lord Of The Rings, the Situtationists, and a whole world of self-help clichés are fuel for a Promethean fire (also referenced) that forges a new life from the garbage and debris of the old. Birdwatching previews the upcoming album from these Canadian DIY superheroes. It's entitled Garbage Island and will be released this summer through BB*Island and for North America through You've Changed Records.
Ariel Sharratt: bass clarinet, vocals
Mathias Kom: guitar, vocals
Darren Browne: electric bass
Jake Nicoll: drums, tambourine, piano, vocals
lyrics
LYRICS:
Tragedy minus glory equals just another story
Like the prisoners that stayed behind in Plato’s allegory
Or the poor forgotten second-last passenger pigeon
Anyone can fail but truly losing takes ambition
I’m suspicious of ambitious folks, but I’ll race you to the bottom
Where the clocks don’t tick or tock and you can smoke ‘em if you got ‘em
Carpe-ing every diem’s no achievement, it’s exhausting
If you need me I’ll be sitting over here, birdwatching
I’ve read the The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective People
I know I’m probably the liver, not Prometheus or the eagle
But I’d rather be a giver than a taker or a faker
everybody’s just another paycheque to the undertaker
I have an allergy to strategy and inspirational quotations
My reaction’s anaphylactic to vocations or to nations
I’m digging moats and burning flags and bridges just as a precaution
If you need me I’ll be sitting on this island, birdwatching
There’s a flower in the compost and a beach below the pavement
We’ll outlive the rich and famous if we remain aimless and patient
We’re neither rising like a phoenix nor are we dying like the dodos
So let’s leave the endless questing to the Sams and and to the Frodos
Anthems are anathema, enough with rousing choruses
And achieving is as torturous as tickling slow lorises
The search for more and better gives us worse and fewer options
So let’s quit while we’re behind, and do some birdwatching
Entrepreneurship is capsizing and it will surely sink
Jump and swim to Garbage Island and just sit and have a drink
While everybody else is busy polishing their coffins
We’ll be mixing cosmopolitans, and birdwatching
credits
released February 25, 2022
written by Mathias Kom
(c)&(p) 2022 The Burning Hell/M.Kom under exclusive license to BB*ISLAND and for North-America to You've Changed Records