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This was originally written for thelineofbestfit.com compilation Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada #7 back in 2015. Thanks to Ro Cemm for all the support over the years!

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The first snow of the season fell on election day
As an omen, this was confusing.
Was it a portent of a long, hard winter,
Or a harbinger of change?
I wondered, as I drove to my morning appointment.

As the snow and the Liberals piled up
I stayed outside and worked like the dickens.
And “the dickens” is the Devil, and the Devil, he works very hard
One day I shut myself inside with the first Great Lake Swimmers record
And I sang along to “The Man With No Skin”

The snow it fell down, and the lights did flicker
Then the power went out
Still, I kept singing the winter away.

Well, I believe in no Jesus
Though I live surrounded by Christians
So it was that I was invited to dinner on Christmas Eve
There were neighbours, there were strangers
There was Amanda and her racist boyfriend
We got drunk and started fighting about immigration.

With the drunken fire of the righteous
I stormed away from the Christmas table
And I stumbled my way down the dark and wintry road
I lay down on the pillows of a snowbank
Turned my face up to the sky
And I opened my mouth
And sang “We Are the Champions”

The snow it fell down, and the stars did flicker
And the moon it came out
Still, I kept singing the winter away:

No time for losers,
We are the champions of the world.

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from Mathias Kom's Holy Hullabaloo, released December 4, 2020

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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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