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Speechlessness

from Garbage Island by The Burning Hell

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    As a companion piece to the album, the Garbage Island Ornithological Society is proud to announce the publication of the first edition of the Illustrated Field Guide to the Birds of Garbage Island, edited by Mathias Kom and featuring work by Shary Boyle, Toby Goodshank, Booboo Tannenbaum, Jeffrey Lewis, David Ivar 'Yaya' Herman Düne and many more.

    The first 100 Garbage Island LP orders from each record label will receive a free copy of this groundbreaking ornithological study of future imaginary birdlife.

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(Kom / Sharratt / Nicoll)

lyrics

“Future Home of Open Arms Church”
The sign was old, near a stand of spruce and birch
We used it for a roof, the paint peeled in the rain
The evangelicals won’t be needing it again

The plastic Japanese alarm clock’s hands still glow
We’ll know what time it is until the batteries finally go
A year ago I rolled my eyes when you would say
We should really try to stockpile double-As

We’re losing language to describe these things somehow
(Slurring words, pronouncing things wrong;
Dropping vowels, stumbling over diphthongs)
We’re acquiring an apocalisp now
(Who needs words to describe a future of)
Ceaseless speechlessness

You fold your fingers in the shape of a bird
I kill a chicken for you ‘cause that’s what I thought I heard
You laugh and take its wings and mime them as you say
What I meant was that I’d like to fly away

Life’s a beach now, and that’s no longer an expression
The air above us is filled with wings in every direction
The years go by we watch them emigrate and return
To everything there is a seabird, tern tern tern

We’re losing language to describe these things somehow
(Slurring words, pronouncing things wrong;
Dropping vowels, stumbling over diphthongs)
We’re acquiring an apocalisp now
(Who needs words to describe a future of)
Ceaseless speechlessness

We’re losing language to describe these things somehow
(Slurring words, pronouncing things wrong;
Dropping vowels, stumbling over diphthongs)
We’re acquiring an apocalisp now
(Who needs words to describe a future of)
Ceaseless speechlessness

credits

from Garbage Island, track released April 2, 2022
Ariel Sharratt: synths, vocals
Mathias Kom: guitars, vocals
Darren Browne: electric bass
Jake Nicoll: drums, broken roof tin, junk
Mara Pellerin: vocals
Krista Power: vocals
Kelly McMichael: vocals

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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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