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#160-The Colors of Love (1996)
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Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's poem- The Bells (and the Phil Ochs song that takes his words)
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 #330
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1996
Uploaded
June 16, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.5 MB 128 kbps 4:51
Story behind the song
Wanted to write a song that used the same poetic device as the famous Poe poem The Bells but instead of bells I used an abstract concept--Love and instead of it having a negative ending it comes back in a circular form. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.6 out of 5.0....Comments included: "Although a bit long, a really pretty song" "This one is poorly executed, but a better recording and it might be something special"
Lyrics
Oh oh love is white In the innocence of flight Like the gentle soaring birds Chirping music without words Oh oh love is yellow Lovely girl lucky fellow In the flowery spring of noon Everything will seem in bloom Oh oh love is red The blood rushes to your head In the passion of the time You are bound to lose your mind Oh oh love is pink It sometimes get mixed in the drink In the sweat and pants and thighs It is hard to close your eyes Oh oh love is brown Though you’re in your wedding gown With your head pulled from the cloud You are bound to touch the ground Oh oh love is green It can tie you up unseen It was silver it was gold In the dowry days of old Oh oh love is blue A bit cliche but still so true When you’ve lost the horizon And blinded by the daylight’s sun Oh oh love is gray It is part of yesterday In its quaint and faithful rhyme The heart won’t bow to shadow time Oh oh love is black As it heads right down the track As it puffs out its last breath Twisted wreck or screeching death Oh oh love is purple Its royal shades drawn in a circle As the violet twilight fades And the memories remain Oh oh loves a rainbow And as all of us should know Just pick the point of view And you’ll find a different hue
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