Biography:
The Burning Hell is the alter-ego of songwriter and ukulele-slinger Mathias Kom. Loosely based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, The Burning Hell has toured back and forth across Canada and Europe since 2007, playing everywhere from festivals to bars to living rooms - and once even a mental asylum in rural France. The band has garnered acclaim for their hyperactive live shows and their caustic yet sincere lyrics, believing as they do that songs about the inevitability of death can also be fun to dance to.
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Capo 2nd fret
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F
There’s something wrong with my hands
C
Oh yes, they’re not holding you
F
They should be enfolding you like a mother’s pouch
E G
Around a baby kangaroo
E
That sparkle in your eye
Am
Shines like a shiny diamond
G C
In a shiny diamond ring
Dm
And like a crow, don’t you know,
F G C
I’m helpless around shiny things
C
When I got to this dance bar,
G
At first I didn’t feel like waiting
C
The lineup was so long But then I saw you and I thought “I must be hallucinating!”
F
But I was sober as a nun,
C
And like a nun I prayed
G
That we would dance one dance together
C
And fall in love forever and our love would never fade
C
You’re quite a talented dancer -
G
did you take a dancing class for that?
And I like the way your pants are the same colours
C
As the colours of the band around your hat
F
I must sound like a schoolboy
C
I haven’t got a thing to say
G
But wait, this song they’re playing is great
C
And it says exactly what I’ve been trying to say
Am
When Lionel Richie wrote Hello
G
Was it you he was looking for?
F
Not the blind girl in the video
C
You know, the actor and the amateur sculptor
Am G
Speaking of sculpting, my heart is spinning like a pottery wheel
F
I feel like a ghost, I’m going crazy
E
Is this how I’m supposed to feel?
Like Demi and Swayze?
F C
There’s something wrong with my hands
F
They should be holding you -
E G
The way that hands were meant to do
E
That sparkle in your eye
Am
Shines like a shiny diamond
G C
In a shiny diamond ring
Dm
And like a crow, don’t you know,
F G C
I’m helpless around shiny things
Solo:
Aaaaahhh Aaaahhaahah
F C F E G E Am G C Dm F G C
C
Your face is kind of like a planet
G
That hasn’t been discovered
My heart’s a space-pod that travels to your face’s planet
C
And it will never be recovered
F
My heart will roam the surface of your face
C
Collecting data on your lips
G
But I’ll cut off all communication with space stations
C
And my mothership
C
‘Cause I don’t want Earth to know about you
G
No, they wouldn’t understand
Just you and me here in this galaxy
C
Like shipwrecked sailors on a tiny sandy island
F
Like shipwrecked sailors deep in love
C
Finally free to show their feelings
G
Seen only by the million blinking eyes of God in the dark sky
C
That is their island’s ceiling
F
And those million eyes are shining
C
And I can see each one in yours
G E
They say the eyes are little windows to the heart,
G
Well that’s a start but I still need to find the door
E
Still those sparkly eyes are shining
Am G C
Like a shiny diamond in a shiny diamond ring
Dm
And like a crow, don’t you know,
F G C
I’m helpless around shiny things
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F
There’s something wrong with my hands
C
Oh yes, they’re not holding you
F
They should be enfolding you like a mother’s pouch
E G
Around a baby kangaroo
E
That sparkle in your eye
Am
Shines like a shiny diamond
G C
In a shiny diamond ring
Dm
And like a crow, don’t you know,
F G C
I’m helpless around shiny things
C
When I got to this dance bar,
G
At first I didn’t feel like waiting
C
The lineup was so long But then I saw you and I thought “I must be hallucinating!”
F
But I was sober as a nun,
C
And like a nun I prayed
G
That we would dance one dance together
C
And fall in love forever and our love would never fade
C
You’re quite a talented dancer -
G
did you take a dancing class for that?
And I like the way your pants are the same colours
C
As the colours of the band around your hat
F
I must sound like a schoolboy
C
I haven’t got a thing to say
G
But wait, this song they’re playing is great
C
And it says exactly what I’ve been trying to say
Am
When Lionel Richie wrote Hello
G
Was it you he was looking for?
F
Not the blind girl in the video
C
You know, the actor and the amateur sculptor
Am G
Speaking of sculpting, my heart is spinning like a pottery wheel
F
I feel like a ghost, I’m going crazy
E
Is this how I’m supposed to feel?
Like Demi and Swayze?
F C
There’s something wrong with my hands
F
They should be holding you -
E G
The way that hands were meant to do
E
That sparkle in your eye
Am
Shines like a shiny diamond
G C
In a shiny diamond ring
Dm
And like a crow, don’t you know,
F G C
I’m helpless around shiny things
Solo:
Aaaaahhh Aaaahhaahah
F C F E G E Am G C Dm F G C
C
Your face is kind of like a planet
G
That hasn’t been discovered
My heart’s a space-pod that travels to your face’s planet
C
And it will never be recovered
F
My heart will roam the surface of your face
C
Collecting data on your lips
G
But I’ll cut off all communication with space stations
C
And my mothership
C
‘Cause I don’t want Earth to know about you
G
No, they wouldn’t understand
Just you and me here in this galaxy
C
Like shipwrecked sailors on a tiny sandy island
F
Like shipwrecked sailors deep in love
C
Finally free to show their feelings
G
Seen only by the million blinking eyes of God in the dark sky
C
That is their island’s ceiling
F
And those million eyes are shining
C
And I can see each one in yours
G E
They say the eyes are little windows to the heart,
G
Well that’s a start but I still need to find the door
E
Still those sparkly eyes are shining
Am G C
Like a shiny diamond in a shiny diamond ring
Dm
And like a crow, don’t you know,
F G C
I’m helpless around shiny things
The Cactus Bloss (...)
The Cadillac Gra (...)
The Cadillac Thr (...)
The Cadillacs
The Caezars
The Candle Waste (...)
The Candyskins
The Canes
The Capris
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