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#21 Breakout (1981)
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My angst filled rocker from way back when. Wish I had a real band and engineer for this one.
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
Genre
Rock Classic Rock
Charts
#1,720 in subgenre Peak #41
Charts
Peak #324
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1981
Uploaded
January 21, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.1 MB 128 kbps 5:31
Story behind the song
In 1981 and the first part of 1982 I was playing electric violin 5 nights a week in two rock bands. (Hearthstone and Heidi & The Wolf). This song was my only other true rock song that Hearthstone did of mine (my other tunes with them were more folky). It took me an hour to remember the chords to the bridge section. (I challenge any guitarist out there to figure it out). In reconstructing this song I wished I had a real engineer and a real drummer. It suffers from inexperienced engineering flaws and a too soft too simple drum machine, but I think if you play it loudly, especially the end of the song captures the feeling of angst and passion the song tried to convey. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 3.9 out of 5....... Comments included: "Rob, you rock.... thats a good thing... toss in a couple of Rickenbackers, a 12 string of course.... some distortion, keep the tempo up... This is classic XPN material.... Surely 4 to 5... more towards a 5. This is the way to play, a take no prisioners attitude! I knew you had it in you! Turn it up to 11 and go for it... this is what its about!" "The recording is terrible. But the song is an easy 5. I love the lyrics and the music and hope you get a chance to record this one professionally." "I think with a tighter arrangement this could be a 4.5" "A classic"
Lyrics
I've been out runnin' since the day I was born In two directions I have been torn Sometimes I have to close my eyes To see I'm running from myself Oh I realize But tell me a story that I can feel I don't expect you to be so real I've been building prisons inside my mind I think I'll breakout if I still got the time Oh I've been chasing things in front of me Haven't stood still long enough so I can see There's a ghost in a black hood it's right before my eyes Telling me I must run for my life Breakout Gotta Stop runnin' Breakout Gotta slow down We hear in pictures within time And we sing in sentences that usually rhyme How I want to show you my love is real But I've been too afraid to give the love I feel Oh I've been chasing things in front of me Haven't stood still long enough so I can see There's a ghost in a black hood it's right before my eyes Telling me I must run for my life Breakout Gotta Stop runnin' Breakout Gotta slow down Now I'm gonna start walkin' Gonna look around See what I'm losing to see what I've found But in my heart this music and love It's driving me insane For sometimes they're one and the same One and the same One and the same It's all your love
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