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#253-Understand (2002)
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Intense song from the perspective of a terrorist, often quoting his victim
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 #168
Peak in subgenre #30
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
November 22, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.3 MB 131 kbps 4:37
Story behind the song
This was my response in trying to understand 9/11 and how people could rationalize taking the lives of so many innocent people.
Lyrics
When I take your life you'll know that we mean business It's nothing personal, just following commands When I take your life it's all part of the resistence Soon your side will give into our just demands That's all they can understand That's all they can understand Give me a reason I should spare you from my suffering Pictures of your daughter cannot soften my heart now Don't beg for mercy when my brother and my sister Were murdered by your people as they wept upon the ground And that's all they can understand That's all they can understand You say it is pointless and that violence begets violence And you had nothing to do with my families suffering But aren't you from a country that is stealing from my people That makes us hang our heads and make us feel like nothing? That's all they can understand (2x) You try to give me logic that we're only seen as murderers And our methods are doomed to failure and will just bring on more bloodshed I ask you how did your people fight and earn their freedom Did they say please and thank you or beg? No, they fought and died and bled. And that's all they can understand And that's all they can understand Before I took your life we spoke about Mohammed And you spoke about Jesus and Martin Luther King You said Mahatma Gandhi won his battles through non-violence And that their names live on in victory and that we will never win The last thing that you said to me you dared to call me brother The last thing that you said is that someone has to cross the line To sacrifice their life without taking the lives of others Do you really think that love can win peace throughout all time? You said that's all I can understand You said that's all you can understand And that there is no "they"
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