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Thank you for the Christmas card.
It’s cute the way the chihuahua is dressed like a reindeer,
And as you say, ‘Feliz Naughty Dog’ is a caption worthy of a modern Spanish Shakespeare.
But it’s only been ten years or so—can you really have forgotten I’m a Jew?
So Xmas means as much to me as the story of the Maccabees means to you

Truth be told I don’t particularly mind which religious observance is on your mind
It’s nice to hear from you and to hear about your new job too but I find this kind
Of communication barely one step up from looking at photos of your kids on the Internet
Am I nostalgic for the past?
No, I think I’m nostalgic for things that haven’t happened yet

In the future anything could be real that’s the thing about it
In the future it might be a whole new deal and our lives much less crowded
In the future we might get the chance to talk more than twice a year
In the future we’ll have some space to walk, and space is the final frontier

Sometimes my heart beats louder than ten thousand pelican wings
As they fly over the ocean just to turn around and fly back again
What’s the point in birds? Somewhere there’s a pelican wondering what’s the point in us
And that’s a relevant point the pelican brings up, maybe it’s one we should discuss

These days we’ve got other places to be, and other people to see, well especially you, and maybe not so much me
But anyway say, just for the sake of saying, that things might change, they have a way of changing
For instance, I’ve compiled some pictures here on my external hard-drive:
I’ve pasted our faces on the cover of this sci-fi book called Lovers In The Year 2055

In the future we’ll sing a whole new tune I really wouldn’t doubt it
In the future the sky might have two moons when it’s not too clouded
In the future who knows where we’ll be we might be neighbours on Mars
Watching our old planet disappear, playing shows in the Martian bars

Delete, delete, and keep deleting. I’ll start again: Season’s greetings and happy new year.
Thanks for the Christmas card, it’s cute the way the chihuahua is dressed like a reindeer.

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

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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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