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#15 -Love's Here To Stay (1980)
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I wrote this the night John Lennon died. I couldn't sleep.
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 #252
Peak in subgenre #44
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1980
Uploaded
December 31, 2006
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 3:22
Story behind the song
I had not written a song since I joined the band Hearthstone as I was too busy performing and doing the songs of the other great songwriters in the group. Lennon's death knocked me for a loop. I had met him in 1974 and he was my musical hero. This song was written while I was grieving and trying to find a meaning in his death. I changed some of the lyrics for the band to do this tune. These are the original lyrics. The second and third verses were less specific to Lennon when I performed it w/Hearthstone. Mp3 Club listeners gave this an average rating of 3.5 out of 5...... Comments included: "This one really touched my heart," "I like this one" "How do you remember what you wrote in 1980? it's kinda scary...really.. 26 years ago..." "Didn't like this one...too cryptic"
Lyrics
Hello what time is it today? I cannot say But I know there's something wrong don't you? Hey you don't turn away Don't be afraid Eyes turn away Lives blown away Still love's here to stay Eyes turn away A life's shot away Still love's here to stay Look in what day was it in time When you sang his rhyme? Imagine a world that lives in peace as one No one can tell you what to sing And be American Eyes turn away Lives shot away Still love's here to stay Eyes turn away A life's blown away Still loves here to stay No ones that strong To write the wrong But harmony Creates new songs Sean he's own five And he's so alive How could you take his daddy from him? Look out what time is it today? Have we lost our way? Or have we lost our hearts Before our minds? No one's that strong To write the wrong But harmony Creates new songs
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