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#154- Fade To Blue (1995)
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Sad folky style with a bit of country feel
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 #348
Peak in subgenre #60
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1995
Uploaded
May 25, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.5 MB 128 kbps 2:44
Story behind the song
In the year or so leading up to and following my dad's death from cancer I wrote a lot of sad songs. This is one of them. Mp3 Club listers rated it 3.4 out of 5.0...Comments included: "Nice" "Poetic"
Lyrics
I’d walk a camel for a mile Good times have long gone out of style Sometimes I try to think of you And everything around me fades to blue The sky is cloudless and so clear The sting of thorns are in the air Rose colored glasses can’t see through Everything around me fades to blue The day is slowly darkening soon it will be night But before the sun is failing I feel the pale blue light The leaves are brown before the Fall The weeds are trying to grow tall The flowers never had a clue Everything around me fades to blue Rose colored glasses don’t see true Everything around me fades to blue
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