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#14- Times Like These (1979)
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A simple and pretty love song- about as sweet as I ever got.
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)
Song Info
Charts
Peak #609
Peak in subgenre #58
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1979
Uploaded
December 24, 2006
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 3:21
Story behind the song
If you analyze this it will seem obvious, simplistic, saccharine sweet and young. But it just might be the best song I wrote in the 1970's as it was the most commercial, conventional, accessible and universal...and it's also pretty. It was also the last song I wrote in the 1970's. The 1980's were a wild decade full of more than 100 songs of many genres...stay tuned. Mp3 listeners gave this an average rating of 3.6...Some listeners comments included.... "Cute song," "Makes me feel high as a kite!" "Sentimental song" "I don't care for this one at all." "Way too simplistic" "Hi, Rob! I'm finally getting caught up on some of the music that I missed the last few weeks. I really like this one. I don't think it's too sweet or immature at all. It made me think of this quote from John Ruskin: "Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought -- proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us -- houses built without hands, for our souls to live in."
Lyrics
When it's grey outside and life looks like rain When I look everywhere and find only pain When all my friends seem to turn away And I can't even imagine a sunny day I think of you in times like these I think of you in times like these When the day is young and the sun is bright When I take nothing yet feel high as a kite When I feel the warm breeze blowing on me When I look down the road and know I can see I think of you in times like these I think of you in times like these I think of you I love you it's true I think of you In times like these Times like these
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