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Precious Island

from Baby by The Burning Hell

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    On the tenth anniversary of the release of the third Burning Hell record "Baby," BB*Island has released it on a limited edition LP for the first time ever! Remastered for vinyl, Baby comes with a deluxe package including a full colour poster featuring Gabe Foreman's original art "The Old World" that the first Baby cover was based on, plus a thick colour sleeve with all the lyrics and a great photo of the 2009-era Burning Hell by Angus Rowe MacPherson. Ships from Germany via BB*Island - like the dodo or the passenger pigeon, once these are gone, there won't be any more!

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lyrics

Some sailors say they sail for several years and seldom see the sand at all
Oh I know that must be kind of dull
The sea’s a salty slippery friend it smells like fish and death and never ends
Oh you know this life is kind of dull

All we do is sail around for miles and miles and
All we want is a bit of dirt and sand
A little precious island

Precious island, precious island
When all the world is wet you bet we get a little funny in the head
And we don’t care if it’s Hamilton or somewhere with better hotels like maybe Thailand
Everything that’s not the sea
Is a little precious island to me

All we do is sail around for miles and miles and
All we want is a bit of dirt and sand
A little precious island
Precious island, precious island
When all the world is wet you bet we get a little funny in the head
And we don’t care if it’s Oshawa or somewhere with fewer trucks like the Scottish Highlands
Everything that’s not the sea
Is a little precious island to me

There’s a thousand reasons to hate the water
Unless you are a killer whale, a squid or a sea otter

You need a precious island, precious island
When all the world is wet you bet we get a little funny in the head
And we don’t care if it’s Pickering or somewhere where the cows are loud and the malls are silent
Everything that’s not the sea
Is a little precious island to me

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from Baby, released January 1, 2009

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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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