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An old chestnut from years back that I love dearly, but was a bit too weird to put on 'Baby'. A cautionary tale? An environmental lament? An anti-urban wildlife theme song? Probably none of the above.

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There are rabbits by the highway
Making homes in embankments
A diet of grass and diesel
A lifetime of dodging cars
There's a dog on my block
He's missing a leg and an eye
His owner is missing an arm
And the dog sleeps in a box in the yard

It's an animal city
And we're moving to the countryside.

All the pigeons with their little red feet
Looking around for something to eat
They're eating poisoned bread
Hundreds of dead pigeons at my feet

It's an animal city
And we're moving to the countryside.

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from The Ones That Got Away: Volume One, released December 1, 2010
Written by Mathias Kom, copyright 2009, SOCAN, All rights reserved.

Recorded by Brian Barr and Jon Wood in Vancouver and Andy Magoffin at the House of Miracles. Played by Mathias Kom, Nick Ferrio, Mike Duguay, Darcy McCord, Jenny Gleeson and Adam DeMarsh. Backups by Aliya Dalfen and Jenny Gleeson.

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The Burning Hell

The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, often including additional comrades and collaborators.

Their densely populated genre-shifting songs are packed with an abundance of literary, historical, cultural, and pop-cultural forebears, heroes and villains, subjects and objects, stories and hooks.
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