Song picture
#3-Covered In Darkness (1976)
Comment Share
Single   $0.5
My first 'Serious' song
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
Artist picture
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
Peak #5,624
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1976
Uploaded
November 18, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.4 MB 128 kbps 3:44
Story behind the song
I was a rather grim and serious young man of 17 when I wrote this song about a senile old woman at the end of her days. This song is so obscure, I did not even have a cassette recording of it. It is amazing that I could reconstruct it 30 years later from memory. Sounds to me like it could be called "Covered In Reverb" (that's a recording engineer's joke). It also sounds to me a bit like a sub-par filler song from an early Gordon Lightfoot LP circa 1967. Thankfully, I don't write lyrics like this anymore. Mp3 Club listeners' average rating was 2.9 out of 5.0 Some listener comments on this song were: "I like the mysterious feeling," "well suited for your voice," "I like the music but the lyrics are not compelling," "sub-par lyrics for you," "put me in a dreamy state," "I liked the bridge," "sounds contrived, like a young writer reaching for something he does not yet understand...," pulls at my heartstrings a bit too much," "it does remind me of Gordon Lightfoot," "pretty musically"
Lyrics
Covered In Darkness she passes the doorway Ten minutes to three Through the halls of the old age home She thinks she's walking with him Oh she thinks she's walking with him Her husband died two years ago She never had many friends She gave her life for her family Yes her life went to them Oh her life went to them Some of the others They care what surrounds them They sleep to awaken the next day But this old woman Doesn't know what is happening All she can feel is the grey Only the grey Covered in darkness she passes the doorway Ten minutes to 3 Through the halls of the old age home She thinks she's walking with him Oh she thinks she's walking with him Oh she thinks she's walking with... Him
On Playlists
Comments
Please sign up or log in to post a comment.