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#93--T'was Long Ago (1988)-Live L&L
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Live Lessick & Lincoln recording of obscure song about political apathy. Some daring harmonies...topic is more relevent today than it was then.
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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)
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Rob Lincoln
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1988
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September 30, 2007
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MP3 3.9 MB 128 kbps 4:15
Story behind the song
This song I wrote right before Lessick & Lincoln began and it was meant to be sung by a duo or trio. Therefore, I am including a live L&L version. I don't think the song works solo. It also did not last long in our L&L reportoire. It was about political apathy and was written in complete irony. I am not sure people got it. Mp3 listeners rated this a 3.7 out of 5.0.... Comments included: "Great song, great recording, holds up well," "I admire you were still writing songs like that in 1988" "I liked it" "good song" " had a good message but you've had better lyrics- a bit preachy"
Lyrics
Once believed that the world would change its ways But now we know that things remain the same Once believed that speaking up caused change But now we know we have to play the game Oh we were young What did we know? T'was long ago Once believed that the ozone could be saved But now we know that the highways must be paved Once believe in marching down the street But now I think my feet just fell asleep Oh we were young What did we know? T'was long ago I once believed that our country would set a standard for them all But now we know that it don't matter and can your hear the call? Once believed in calling out their names But now we know no one can take the blame Once believed that we would never kill But now we're simply taxed to foot the bill Once believed that a song could change the world But now the target is 10 yr. old girls Once believed we'd sing in harmony Now we know it can never be Once believed we'd sing in harmony Now we know it can never be (ad nauseum) We were young What did we know? T'was long ago
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