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I wish I could take you shopping
And watch you try new glasses on
We could eat something in a food court
At your favourite restaurant
I could compliment your haircut
And I could compliment your jokes
You could invite me to Thanksgiving
So you could finally meet my folks

And you would warn me not to worry
If your dad seemed unimpressed
Because he’s always unimpressed
He’s literally always unimpressed
And after dinner at your parents
We could sit out in the backyard
Just you and me in plastic deck chairs
Making names up for the stars

That one up there could be called Carlos
That other one could be called Steve
And I could kiss you on your moustache
And I could kiss you on your cheek
And the stars would twinkle twankle
In the black eyeballs of a bird
Sitting silent on a fencepost
Staring at us unobserved

And all our lives would be contained
In the vision of this gull
He would fly into the future
And we would turn to bones and skulls
Now he visits us and numbers
All the things we never did
His unblinking eye shows us the details
Of the lives we never lived

Sitting here on Garbage Island
There are no food courts, no Thanksgiving
Though that’s no way to measure
A fair standard of living
So I wish I could take you shopping
And watch you try new glasses on
But you’ll have to settle for this fishnet
And half a plastic leprechaun

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from Birdwatching on Garbage Island, released April 15, 2019

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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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