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#156-In The Middle of My Day (1995)
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Surrealistic song of despair
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 #350
Peak in subgenre #62
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1995
Uploaded
June 01, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.9 MB 128 kbps 2:04
Story behind the song
This was one of my first forays into surrealistic imagery. Many more would follow in the next millenium Mp3 Club listeners rated it a 4.2 out of 5.0...Comments included: "This is really beautiful in a sad way" "I like your voice on this one" "Nice chords" "Very sad song...I've been advised to write up beat escapism songs for the commercial market. And that current star performers are looking for that type of song. Soooooo...cheer up man!" "Wow, hope you got out of this depressing mood soon. Some of these are really dark. Can't wait to hear the melody. The words are sure powerful" "I really like this one"
Lyrics
In the middle of my day Birds are sneaking through the sky Clouds are scraping past the sun Which burns a shadow on my heart And whatever remains In the middle of my life The world is moving very fast The orbit far beyond my grasp The knowledge learned before By heart and whatever remains In the middle of my night Silence screams beneath the wind Darkness shines before the dawn Broken sleep opens my heart And whatever remains In the middle of my day Flowers gasp above the soil Petals crash into the earth Which leaves a dent inside my heart And whatever remains
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