Name: Solo Only
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Description: One of the B-Sides from the sessions for 'This Charmed Life'; I'm still sort of sad it didn't make the cut.

Solo Only

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

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One of the B-Sides from the sessions for 'This Charmed Life'; I'm still sort of sad it didn't make the cut.

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A few months ago I was feeling low
I didn’t know which direction to go
The rest of my band had other bands and real jobs and so I thought about maybe doing something solo

I went to the synagogue to have a heart to heart talk
With this rabbi I knew who liked indie rock
I said I know I’m not exactly an observant Jew
But if you don’t mind I’d like some advice from you

I did my best to explain the situation
He sat there and smiled and listened and was patient
He said “well I’m no Rick Rubin, I’m no Phil Spector
But I don’t think it’s wise to make a solo record

Going solo only leads you deep inside your gooey old brain
To the place where you keep your paranoia and pain
Stick with the band, going solo’s a trap
And nobody likes singer-songwriter crap.”

And I said, rabbi, I’m picking up what you’re laying down.
And it sure does get lonely without the whole band around
But with all due respect I’ll give the band a brief rest
He said ‘Whatever, but I’ll always like your first album best.’

I said well really on a solo album you should play everything yourself,
and I can’t play the cello so I’ll get Darcy’s help
And with Jordy pushing the buttons of technology
I think it’s kind of a band anyway, so rabbi, sing with me:

Solo albums are solo only when there’s noone else around
So lonely people cry alone at night and make their lonely sounds
Press go on the recording machine and stop when it’s all done
This is an album not for solo only but for everyone

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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 Jordy Walker at the Garage in Burnaby BC.

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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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