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#6- Words Unspoken (1978)
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My first 'introspective' song
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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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)
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Charts
Peak #388
Peak in subgenre #48
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1978
Uploaded
November 25, 2006
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MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:48
Story behind the song
I figured I'd write something a bit different, so I tried a spanish style song, which did not come out at all in a spanish style. Lyrically, it was one of the most unnatural tunes I ever wrote, clearly not my style or persona, but slightly interesting nonetheless. It was actually performed once at the old Mystic Muse Coffeehouse on Lincoln Drive in Germantown. This song is made more listenable on this recording by my violin played through a delay effect. Mp3 Club listeners' average rating was 2.9 ...Here were some of the comments: "Loved the violin," "my favorite so far," "like the phrasing," "reminds me of when we were young," "seems like you are stretching for the esoteric lyric," "put it in the old songs' home buddy"
Lyrics
Words Unspoken Left unsaid I am awoken My thought's not dead But can you hear what the eyes speak? What can I say that you don't know today? Thoughts unmentioned Left untold Voices silent Yet behold Silence speaks as action does Both louder than my words Sometimes it's better not to verbalize And it's true that you can tell a lot from your friend's eyes To feel close you know that words can get in your way So why not sit back---try to relay Words Unspoken Left unsaid I am awoken My thought's not dead But can you hear what the eyes speak? What can I say that you don't know today?
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