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#234-Always True (1981)
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Unknown early introspective acoustic song
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 Rock Unplugged
Charts
Peak #356
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2000
Uploaded
July 13, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.4 MB 137 kbps 4:26
Story behind the song
From 1981-(out of chronological order) it's a song I'd forgotten I'd written which I discovered on a long lost cassette of song scraps
Lyrics
Walking down the street Snow blowing at my feet Thinking about when we meet The things that should be said And I close my eyes Hear the throbbing in my head Think I better rest awhile Remember I can smile Oh where did they go The things I used to know? Soon I'll find the time To remember your favorite line It's always true what you said to me "Think too much and you cannot see" It's always true It's always true It's always true I can tell the world a thing or two But please don't tell my friends I'm afraid of you And if you could only believe in me for just one day I tell you all my insecurities would wash away And Oh where did they go The things I used to know? Soon I'll find the time To remember your favorite line It's always true what you said to me "Think too much and you cannot see" It's always true It's always true It's always true I think I can love you but I'm not sure why Are you merely a glimmer in someone else's eye? I came to you playing a game so self assured And you see right through me and send me out the door Oh where did they go The things I used to know? Soon I'll find the time To remember your favorite line It's always true what you said to me "Think too much and you cannot see" It's always true It's always true It's always true
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