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#104-Love Is The Heart (1989)
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Folk rocker dealing with some serious theological issues relating to immortality or the lack thereof
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 #692
Peak in subgenre #45
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
November 04, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.8 MB 128 kbps 3:06
Story behind the song
This song once was a staple of Lessick & Lincoln shows. It is my oldest song that appears on the soon to be released Men From When cd. Originally it had an Indigo Girls feel but has evolved a bit since when it was first written. It is in second person but is about me. It is also loosely inpired by socio-archeologist V. Gordon Childe's book, Man Makes Himself. Among other things he stated that man created God in that book. This song contains two lines that if someone hasn't already said them could be my greatest lines in terms of substance (not language) that I have written. They sound like they have been said by a theologist before. If not, well make sure to quote me: "Love is the means in the end" "Love is the means and (the) end" Sometimes I sing it with the "the" and sometimes not. If I was going to have an epitath I'd choose the second one. Mp3 listeners gave this a 4.3 out of 5.0....Comments included:"Love is The Heart" has powerful lyrics. maybe someday we'll have the chance to discuss theology in a non-electronic mode. I have some thoughts. 'To be afraid to live is the most frightening thing' I can truly identify. Where do love and God intersect? I'm not sure." "Heavy lyrics" "I could see the Indigo Girls doing it."
Lyrics
You woke up in the middle of the night- began to cry You were told all the people in your life would someday die But it wouldn't happen for a very long long time And there'd be no heaven, hell we'd just whither on the vine It didn't seem fair to you It was not within your control If dust is our destiny Create a God, create a soul It's in your mind again (3) Love is the heart my friend You loved to play among the kids Ride the bike through the neighborhood You tried to be unlike the rest Though you knew you must be good You made up your own religion and your morality You needn't search no longer once you saw the raging sea Somewhere far away Somewhere beyond the worm Somewhere you haven't seen Or else there's nowhere to turn It's in your mind again (3) Love is the heart my friend And so the proseletizers and the born again will say to ye Buy into the long term plan Buy into the comforting But they are lost without a script So you are doomed to burn in hell To be on your own in life That's the rough world they can't sell To be afraid to die is where you've been all your life As you get closer to reaching out to the other side It occurs to you that you may finally see To be afraid to live is what's the most frightening thing It's in your mind again (3) Love is the heart my friend Love is the means in the end Love is the heart my friend Love is the means and (the) end Love is the heart my friend
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