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#94- Angel Face (1989)
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Intense relationship song with 12 string tuned in DADGAD
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 #358
Peak in subgenre #53
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
September 30, 2007
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MP3 4.7 MB 128 kbps 5:09
Story behind the song
This was the first song I wrote specifically for L&L. Steve Lessick did a great job singing it. This new solo recording allows me to stretch out a bit on acoustic 12 string DADGAB tuned guitar and add a bit of effect. To those fans of old Al Stewart recordings you may recognize what song influenced me on the guitar part. (Steve Lessick rewrote two or three lines in the lyrics) Mp3 listeners rated this a 3.9 out of 5.0.... Comments included: "Liked the Nostradamus bit..not enough solo acoustic leads these days...wonder why" "Sounds great!" "I like your idea for the use of metaphors, but I don't think they all work."
Lyrics
Sheet of ice On my window pain Shines so bright Looks like it's melting in the rain You toss a rock With an aim that's dead and true You break the ice And my window too Eyes of a gentle doe Heart of broken steel Touch of a thousand hands I cannot feel Angel face Love can't be faked Angel face Can you feel what I hear? Weeping willow On fire at night glows The sparks sting The smoke burns my eyes But the light inside me flows Let it burn through the black Don't quench it with the rain And always remember you said Love is just a game" Eyes of a gentle doe Heart of broken steel Touch of a thousand hands I cannot feel Angel face Love can't be faked Angel face Can you feel what I hear? Angel face Love can't be faked Angel face Can you feel what I hear? Can you hear what I feel?
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