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Remote Control (Demo for the band)

from The Ones That Got Away: Volume One by The Burning Hell

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This is one of the demos I recorded on Steve McNabb's Marantz in Toronto in the summer of 2007 to send to the rest of the band to learn. A lot of people might disagree, but this is my favourite Burning Hell song, and I like this version because it's creaky and weird and you can hear Steve's fridge and a kit of pigeons freaking out on the roof about halfway through.

The internet tells me that 'kit' is just one of three appropriate terms for a group of pigeons, by the way.

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There are some things I can't control
And others remote control
These are the things I love the most
I want to show them to you before I go
What about a ground squirrel at the top of a tree?
What about a blind fish at the bottom of the sea?
What about a fossil on the planet Mars?
Or a blinking firefly in a dirty glass jar?

I love these things more than I love you
They don't need anything, they just do what they do.

Have you seen the blue light
Of the coldest kind of snow?
Have you touched the hard ground
Where nothing will grow?
Have you shivered
When you walked down the road
And street lights went out as you passed below?

I love these things more than I love you
They don't need anything, they just do what they do.
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from The Ones That Got Away: Volume One, released December 1, 2010
Written by Mathias Kom, copyright 2009, SOCAN, All rights reserved. Recorded by Steve McNabb.

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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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