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#98- That Door (1989)
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A folk rocker about the end of a relationship-kind of a celebration as well as mourning/warning
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 Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #691
Peak in subgenre #46
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
October 14, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.4 MB 128 kbps 4:50
Story behind the song
This is my first foray back into folk-rock, as the previous few years were more folky. I would be writing some other folk rockers later in 1989. This song is about the end of a relationship (same one as The Pauper & The Queen). The arrangement is similar to the one done in Lessick & Lincoln, but it is a new recording. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.5 out of 5.0...some comments were: "You are definitely a folk rocker!" "Rating 3 but could be a 4 maybe even a 5....Love the image of walking thru the door...used it in one of my songs ...I also like the universal emotion of losing someone you thought was the one but was wrong....This song has great potential as a country hit... a two step Texas song.....I like the conversational style....but for country it would need a hard ryhming scheme I think...so I feel the lyrics need a re-write....Melodically I like it...Soaring melody works...step ups and step down work n' need to be emphasized....love the harmonica and I can hear a fiddle solo in it!" "not crazy about the lyric writing... not a lot of 'show' --- a lot of 'tell' nothing too poetic about the expression... just plain direct. now, there are many many great songs that are direct... dunno... just what my ears are looking for..."
Lyrics
When you walked through that door I didn't know my life had changed I'd seen you other times before But there was something different, something strange Could I be falling for someone I never thought had noticed me? Could you be the one to share my thoughts My hopes, my feelings and my dreams? When you walked through that door There was something in your smile That turned the key inside the heart Opened my defenses deep inside Tearing straight into my mind A happy virus immune to lies Paralyzing my good sense From one gaze of your eyes And I saw that happy ending That night I felt that I could really feel The thoughts that you and I were sending And I knew that it was finally real I was so wrong It seemed so right I felt so strong In the weak light You sang my songs Into the night We failed at love But with all our might When you walked out the door I knew my life had changed I saw you as you really are And I felt the pain But there's beauty in the rain There's memories in these dried up flowers And if there's anger in my tears It's just for a couple hours But don't walk through that door Don't you walk through that door (5X)
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