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#127-Falling Through The Darkness (1991)Live Lessi
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Live Lessick & Lincoln performance at the Side Door Coffeehouse- sad song on teenage suicide
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 #553
Peak in subgenre #54
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1991
Uploaded
February 10, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:30
Story behind the song
I wrote this at a time when I was particularly fascinated in exploring unusual narrators. This narrator is someone (a teen) who has just committed suicide. I remember hearing about this time of a local a teen who had committed suicide. This just may be THE most depressingly sad song in my catalogue. It was rarely performed, but when it was, you couldn't hear a pin drop. Here is a Lessick and Lincoln performance with Steve Lessick mostly on lead vocal, from a June 5th, 1993 performance at the Side Door Coffeehouse in South Orange, NJ. Mp3 Club listeners gave this an average of 3.8 rating. Some comments included: "Liked the guitar run" "I didn't care for the melody" "Haunting" "Yup, you were going through a very dark, but very strong songwriting period here. I love being able to hear the old L&L versions." "Falling through darkness eerie and dark as you intended. Were the 90's that tough? I hardly remember."
Lyrics
Falling, falling, I've broken through the pain Falling down, falling down, falling down Watching all the faces with their names To the ground, to the ground, to the ground And I'm falling through the darkness But their crying I can hear Through the hollow path of darkness I'm alone I'm alone I'm alone And tomorrow will not come again no more The sun will never shine again And I don't like the way I look down there Flesh and bones they cover me (him) up And I'm falling through the darkness But their crying I can hear Through the hollow path of darkness Where's the light? Where's the light? No bright light Everytime I speak to them It's as if I'm only speaking nonsense They don't take me seriously They'll be sorry Yes they'll see I'm past tense Catch me, catch me, before I touch the ground Oh won't you catch me? I'm around, I'm around, oh yes I am around Reaching out Oh tell me you can see Catch me, catch me, before I touch the ground Oh won't you catch me? I'm around, I'm around, oh yes I am around Reaching out Oh tell me you can see We're around, we're around Oh yes we are around Reaching out Please tell me you can see
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