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#135- Who Hurt Ya So Bad?
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An unplugged acoustic rock and roll shouter
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 #275
Peak in subgenre #10
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1992
Uploaded
March 09, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.6 MB 128 kbps 3:54
Story behind the song
I get to air out my vocals on this one. I think I actually was inspired to write this after watching Lucinda Williams give a very unhappy performance. The words though sound more inspired by Janis. Mp3 listeners gave this a 4.3 out of 5.0.... Comments included: "Cool song. Boy that had some energy. Would like to hear it electric." "good rock song...if you re-record...I'd put more of a story arc into the song and surprise the audience a little...then it could be folky too with a different rythm and tempo" "I really like this one"
Lyrics
Your face is white, looks like it's starving Your mouth it cannot form a smile Your hand is clutching a bottle of something strong That never used to be your style I hear your voice and its tears are pouring Your eyes are screaming out in pain It sounds to me that spiritually Your mind's intact but your heart has gone insane I want to know (3x) Who hurt ya so bad? I bet someone now is laughing away He thinks it's funny you're in pain But you just turn around and have another whisky And your words are pouring out like rain I want to know (3x) Who hurt ya so bad? Was it someone who came into your life And pretended he loved you? Then took a lying dagger right into your heart As he smiled a wicked smile at you I want to know (3x) Who hurt ya so bad? I'm sure it wasn't someone who honestly loved youWho kept trying to reach out Who felt the pain that was welling inside And was not afraid to shout I want to know (3x) Who hurt ya so bad?
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