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Northern Life

from This Charmed Life by The Burning Hell

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A song about leaving the Yukon.

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Veni vidi vici
That’s what I spelled out on my ouidja
Board so I came I saw and I conquered
For month or two

I said “Here I will build my palace
Under the aurora borealis
Spend every shortest day
and longest night with you

I never thought I’d stay for so long
But just like the Germans in the Yukon
I came for the romance
And I stayed ‘cause I forgot to leave
But now I’ve left my heart at the Westmark Hotel
And I think I left my dignity there as well
I think a northern life is not the life for me

And the evil of the dark is a religious myth
The real terror is the folks you have to share the dark with
And when it starts to feel like home
Well they call it Stockholm Syndrome

Now it’s close to time to go
I can’t see the snowbanks through the snow
A kiss on the cheek
And one last drink for the road

And I never thought I’d stay for so long
But just like the Germans in the Yukon
I came for the romance
And I stayed ‘cause I forgot to leave
But now I’ve left my heart at the Westmark Hotel
And I think I left my dignity there as well
I guess a northern life is not the life for me

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from This Charmed Life, released March 1, 2010

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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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