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#64- His Heart (1985)
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Sad tune about a homeless man
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 #257
Peak in subgenre #47
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1985
Uploaded
June 17, 2007
Track Files
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MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:33
Story behind the song
I return to a subject I have written on before. I wanted to write a song with "heart" in the title. I wrote "Your Heart" the same evening (it will be posted as song #65). I discarded this song, never performed it and few have heard it until now. I considered changing it to first person to make it sound less preachy. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 3.3 out of 5....Some comments included: "Wanted more of the story about who he is" "Nice guitar lead" "The music was better than the lyrics." "Not as catchy as some of your others" "Lyrics a bit conventional compared to what you usually do"
Lyrics
Did somebody ever love him? Did somebody ever care? To take the time to look into his eyes Into his heart Now he's down in the big city Walking on a street nowhere Just take the time to look into his eyes Into his heart Now he's standing on the corner And buddy he needs more than a dime Just take the time to look into his eyes Into his heart Long long ago Far away in time His mother held him close And he had peace of mind Can't even send him out a postcard Can't even write "wish you were" Just take the time to look into his eyes Into his heart Did somebody ever love him? Did somebody ever care? Just take the time to look into his eyes Into his heart
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