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The Things That People Make, Pt. 3 (East Coast Version)

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

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This version of this song appears on The Burning Hell/Construction & Destruction split. It's the same basic song as the version on This Charmed Life, just with a ten-piece band, slightly different lyrics and a choir. That's Dave Trenaman being especially awesome at the end of the track.

lyrics

We're gathered here to record a recording
At the Quarantine
We put the fun back in the Bay of Fundy
At the house of Dave and Colleen
At the Irving station
I was standing in line
When an old man with a stutter
Told me the best joke of all time

He said “What is yellow and red and orange
And appropriate hippie attire
And I said I give up and he gave me a wink
And said ‘f-f-f-f-fire’

And I laughed, and then I sang

This charmed life is charming
beyond measure
The work feels a lot like pleasure
And there’s a season for leisure and there’s a season for leisure
In this charmed life I love all of the things
That people make
I love the tricks and games and the millions of names
The wrong answers and the right mistakes

And as the cyclists cycle by
With their pant legs tucked in tight
I wonder what kind of white wine
They’ll be drinking at home tonight

And spring will bring the flowers
To the feet of the city trees
And the honey bees will buzz subtly
like the ‘b’ in subtlety

And the rabbis and the ministers
Will play rock paper scissors in the park
To decide once and for all whether unicorns
Were left behind by Noah’s Ark

And the bears in the woods and the cougars in the bars
And the leeches and the sharks in the cars

Will say

This charmed life is charming
beyond measure
The work feels a lot like pleasure
And there’s a season for leisure and there’s a season for leisure
In this charmed life I love all of the things
That people make
I love the tricks and games and the millions of names
The wrong answers and the right mistakes

credits

from The Ones That Got Away: Volume One, released December 1, 2010
Written by Mathias Kom, copyright 2009, SOCAN, All rights reserved.

Recorded by Dave Trenaman and Colleen Collins at the Quarantine. Played by Mathias Kom, Nick Ferrio, Mike Duguay, Jenny Gleeson, Alison Corbett, Jill Staveley, Steve McNabb, Dave Trenaman and Adam DeMarsh, and featuring The Quarantine Quoir: Jenny and Ray Mitchell, Otis Andrew Mr. Bones Magoffin, Paul Watson, Laura Heaney and Colleen Collins.

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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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