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#145-Other Lives (1994)
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Dark song about the killing of a boy for his sneakers. Written from the murderer's perspective.
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 #940
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1994
Uploaded
April 21, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:29
Story behind the song
This is the title track for the 1994 Lessick & Lincoln album which never actually was recorded for that cd. Wrote it too late. It was performed in 1994 and 1995. This is a solo recording similar to that arrangement and quite punchy. It is the second of a trilogy of murder songs written during this period (all from the murderer's perspective--though this one is third person). It's a true story about a young man who was just trying to get some sneakers. Mp3 club listeners gave this a 4.0 out of 5.0...Comments included...."I love this but I don't know why" "Another good one" "This one is raw and kicks, should have been on your cd"
Lyrics
Uh oh Johnny's got a gun He's gonna shoot it off then run But he never meant to touch other lives Or to make the mamma cry Here comes RJ down the street And Johnny asks him for his sneaks But he never meant to touch other lives Or to make the mamma cry Just a misunderstanding (3x) Johnny says that RJ was to blame He shouldn't have run when he called his name But he never meant to touch other lives Or to make the mamma cry
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