Name: Robert's Bad End
Duration: P00H03M19S
Description: A sad song about the death of a non-fictional, non-dead, very nice guy I met once.

Robert's Bad End

from This Charmed Life by The Burning Hell

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A sad song about the death of a non-fictional, non-dead, very nice guy I met once.

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Robert, you were such an idiot
but nobody blames you for it
you saw neither the forest nor the trees
even when you worked as a logger
and it didn’t take a psychic or an augur
to predict you would come to a bad end

it was nearly a week before they found your body
and when they did, it was a Tuesday
you always liked to go out on Tuesdays
cheap wings and half price drinks until 10
and when they found you, your eyes were still open
And you were smiling and wearing your good clothes

your wife was patient with you
your kids tolerated you
you had plenty of friends
you had a great start and a good run
so what does it matter if you had a bad end?

bad end, bad finale
alone in the woods
down in the valley
alone in the woods
near the rocks by the river bend
but all ends are bad ends in the end

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from This Charmed Life, track 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. ... more

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The Hope and Ruin Brighton

Brighton, UK
Apr 19

Ellen Terry Theatre

Tenterden, UK
Apr 20

Ramsgate Music Hall

Ramsgate, UK

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