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Maurice said I like these chords,
They remind me of you in the fifties walking with me by the shore. 
I didn’t think they made chords like these anymore. 

Eugene didn’t reply, but he was more of a listener than a talker.
Actually, they both sometimes felt talking was awkward,
Which was odd for a psychoanalyst, but maybe not for an illustrator slash author.

And no one suspected
They had wildness in their hearts
But they would go dancing
Where the wild things are

Well Eugene was preoccupied worrying about TV
Its constant availability, its desperate necessity
But Maurice said “Eugene, that’s exactly what you are for me”

It was a joke, though: Maurice preferred books to television
Which was good, 'cause books were how he made his living.
Books for kids, although he famously claimed that he didn’t write for children

And they would sit on the rooftop
Under all of those stars
Just saying nothing
Where the wild things are

Fifty years melted away faster than April snow. 
They both got older, Eugene got sick first, though.
Maurice took his hand and said “please don’t go.”

After that, every second dragged by like months,
Until at last the monsters came for one final stunt.
He stared into their yellow eyes and he didn’t blink once.

There will always be monsters
And little boys and little girls
But now there’s a hole in the world
Where the wild things were

Love is a fearless and unkillable beast.
And Maurice loved Eugene,
and Eugene loved Maurice.

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from Don't Believe The Hyperreal, released November 27, 2015

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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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