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#65-Your Heart (1985)
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One of my first poetic songs, I wanted Annie Haslam to sing it, but Steve Lessick sounded pretty good
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 #704
Peak in subgenre #18
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1985
Uploaded
June 24, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:19
Story behind the song
Tried to sound like the 70's band Rennaisance, but didn't come close. Maybe if Annie Haslam sang it, it might have sounded a bit like them. A few years later this song became a staple at Lessick & Lincoln concerts and was played much faster. Steve Lessick sang it much better than me. Mp3 listeners rated this a 3.9 out of 5....Some comments were: "I must say that you get high marks for ambitiousness trying to copy Rennaissance. One of the great underated bands of the 70's. Actually its a song that I could imagine hearing Annie Haslem sing so I'm impressed."would like to hear it with a more upbeat tempo, bass, and drums. Nice song" "this is nice. but, isn't knocking me out...like the hook"
Lyrics
Can you hear the sparrow cry right before the dawn? Can you hear the gray man sigh in his vented home? Can you look into the sky searching for the sun? Can you walk the streets at night, a jackal on the run? Can you hear your heart? 2x Can you stalk the silver moon and lift it in your palms Can you sniff a morning flower and press it in a song? Can you drink a thousand tears and swallow every one? Can you laugh until you cry and manage to have fun? Can you hear your heart? It's so easy to close your eyes and blindly walk along Just for once open your eyes and hear before you're gone Can you sail a thousand ships and not get past your door? Can yopu wake in the star burnt night, click your heels thrice on the floor Can you wear the jrt black boot? Can you love a whore? Can you march in rows of ten---going off to war? Can you hear your heart? (4x)
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