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Minor Characters

from Garbage Island by The Burning Hell

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    As a companion piece to the album, the Garbage Island Ornithological Society is proud to announce the publication of the first edition of the Illustrated Field Guide to the Birds of Garbage Island, edited by Mathias Kom and featuring work by Shary Boyle, Toby Goodshank, Booboo Tannenbaum, Jeffrey Lewis, David Ivar 'Yaya' Herman Düne and many more.

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lyrics

Our work is almost done here
We’re down to the very last cop
Cop can’t stand up
Not with all of us on top

What about the militia?
Good question, I’m glad you asked
They can’t shoot us
When we’re dancing so fast

Let’s make like a tree and leave
Let’s make like stockings and run
Cue the little drummer boy playing us out
A-rum-ba-bum-bum

Leave the city and hit the beach
Trade doom for danger
All the radio stations are static
But your car has a six-disc changer

Tide’s coming in
Tide never goes out
Birds chatter on the dock
Who knows what they’re talking about

This one looks friendly
That one looks mean
But this old pedal-boat swan
She’ll be the bird queen

You got the cooler
I got the deck chairs
Snorkel, fins, and goggles
There’s a lot of water out there

Little boat big ocean
Just look at these whitecaps
When the moon comes out
Bar’s open, time for a nightcap

Precious little corkscrew
So glad you thought of it
The wine is not good
But there’s a lot of it

A toast to the patron saint
Of amateur mariners
Insignificant others
And minor characters

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from Garbage Island, track released April 2, 2022
Mathias Kom: guitar, vocals
Jake Nicoll: flute

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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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