Song picture
Time Only Knows (2010)
Comment Share
Free download
Finger picking tale of a lonely man from OKC
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Charts
#1,523 in subgenre Peak #22
Charts
Peak #94
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2010
Uploaded
December 20, 2011
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 4:02
Story behind the song
Written in an Oklahoma City hotel. References are from the Adobe neighborhood of OKC
Lyrics
In the Adobe Quarter of OKC?Inside Cafe Picasso the man is in the corner? He stares at his brown bottle and wonders what has happened? To the young man who lived there so many years ago?? Where did he go?...Time only knows (2x)?? He lived upstairs before it was ever called Gallilleo's? And he looked out at the garden near the gallery? And played a Spanish guitar and she listened so intently? And the sun was rising upward over the balcony?? Where did she go?...Time only knows (2x)?Time only Knows?? The fire came so swiftly and all that was left was embers? Burned out before aged thirty so hard to even remember?? Where did she go?...Time only knows (2x)?Time only Knows (2x)?? Walking down 23rd street, his mind is just a muddle? He can see her rainbow in every greasy puddle?? Where did she go?...Time only knows (4x)?Time only Knows (3x)
Comments
Please sign up or log in to post a comment.