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#290- Silvery Sea (2005)
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Slinky slippery little song with watery electric guitar textures.
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 #286
Peak in subgenre #21
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2005
Uploaded
August 31, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:51
Story behind the song
From the perspective of someone who has drowned but does not yet know it
Lyrics
I was free floating in the sea Just the fish and me so free Then I saw slowly swim my way Though I couldn't say you saw me And we in the silvery sea Were just meant to be You and me I closed my eyes water came alive I felt hypnotized then I saw you You were there Seaweed in your hair Underwater chair so shiny And we in the silvery sea Were just meant to be You and me I sank slowly to the bottom of my mind On your silver throne your heart I could not find You were so unkind I pulled free in the stifling sea And I floated to the surface I called out I began to shout But no one looked out Seemed on purpose And we in the silvery sea Were just meant to be You and me I rose slowly and walked upon the wave But no one saw me They thought the water was my grave They did not try to save I took a dip from the psychic ship Off the coast of no returning And what I found was a seashell brown Water all around and returning
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