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#32- Till The End of The World (1982)
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Lost tune partially rewritten, originally sounding like Kinks, now like unplugged Gin Blossoms
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 Rock Unplugged
Charts
Peak #747
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1982
Uploaded
February 24, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:30
Story behind the song
I actually forgot I had written this one and had not even a scratch recording of it, found only a piece of paper with the title and a few lines. I recalled the chorus melody. About 10% of the 300+ songs are not recorded anywhere and therefore may require some rewriting like this one. I remember bringing it to one of the last Heidi and The Wolf rehearsals and it sounded like a happy 1960's Kinks tune. In it's newer incarnation it is not at all sunny, and sounds a bit like a brooding early 90's Gin Blossoms tune done acoustic. This one my Mp3 Club listeners for the most part liked quite a bit. It received an average of 4.0 out of 5.0 so far....comments included: "I would agree- not the Kinks sounds more R.E.M. to me and they probably wold have had a big hit with it together with a black and white heavily produced video. Anyway-simple and direct," "Nice, like the chorus," "yes, does sound like a contemporary (90's) song done on MTV Unplugged,""Love this one too! It's got a Richard Thompson vibe to it. 'Planets align but I'll stand my ground"....great!'" "I really like that one, a 5. It may need some tightening up toward the end"
Lyrics
Got no story that I keep from you Wanna live till 102 But if I can't here's what I'll do Sing a song to see it through Keep trying Can't explain Just seems so plain I'm only gonna love ya till the end of the world Soon the day will be sleeping And the sun will frown Planets align but I'll stand my ground Nothing's going to bring me down The moon goes up and I look around Keep trying Can't explain Just seems so plain I'm only gonna love ya till the end of the world Till the end of the world (6x) Fire and brimstone may come near Hell and high water crystal clear The Earth may melt in the sun's glare Always knew that life ain't fair Keep trying Can't explain Just seems so plain I'm only gonna love ya till the end of the world Till the end of the world (6x)
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