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#146-Like A Fallen Star (1994)
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Upbeat jazzy tune about despair and total hopelessness
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 #604
Peak in subgenre #117
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1994
Uploaded
April 27, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.6 MB 128 kbps 2:47
Story behind the song
This mildly jazzy song was short lived in that L&L performed it only twice. It can best be described as an upbeat song about despair and total hopelessness full of similes and crammed with too many words. I wanted to try writing a song with a lot of words per line for the heck of it. There are also at least 13 similes of mostly dubious quality. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 3.3 out of 5.0...Comments included: "Like a Fallen Star is great! I love songs that take chances lyrically and musically and try new ideas" "I think you about summed this one up in your description, but it's not really that bad" "Dud"
Lyrics
Like a fallen star that tried to flare across the open night That flashed behind the darkened bay and shone its final light Like an errant dream that almost woke a thousand sleepy heads That crashed inside a pick-up truck when it should have been on bed A crying silence A silent cry Looking past the future In a pastime of sighs Like a bed of flowers all in rows that persih in the fall Like an ancient tower where no goes because it's no longer tall Like a song that's never heard again on a cracked 45 The masters have corroded, it's out of print with no one left alive A crying silence A silent cry Looking past the future In a pastime of sighs Like a fish about to fry Like a bird lost to the sky Like a note no longer played Like a lost forgotten day Like a fallen star that tried to flare across the open night That flashed behind the darkened bay and shone its final light
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