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#266- The Vapors (2002)
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Unplugged rock tune with strange chord pattern, inspired by Bush and Cheney
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 #307
Peak in subgenre #12
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
February 28, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.2 MB 170 kbps 2:37
Story behind the song
inspired by the former administration. It's a rocker that is very unplugged. Needs a drum, bass and perhaps a few lyric changes and a bridge, but I think it has an interesting feel to it. The first line could be my epitaph.
Lyrics
Nothing’s ever simple everything is hard I’ve lived along time in my old back yard Yesterday is buried in a wooden frame Better see tomorrow before you’re in pain Don’t listen to the man with the mouthful of capers Whose telling you You’ve got the vapors Bozo on tv with his set of ears Feeding us the story we must live in fear There’s people out to get us there’s no time to think It time to change the channel have another drink Chorus When matter over mind the body will not fail To flee and fight or put a man in jail (to be free to impale) Kill or be killed paint a corner today Think outside the box you might be put away Chorus Back in the day when you reach an age You either lose your mind or become a sage But if you close your eyes from fear hate or cause What may be a brainwash looks like menopause Chorus
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