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#150- Deep Dark Secret (1994)
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Dark acoustic rock song full of angst
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
Peak in subgenre #56
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1994
Uploaded
May 11, 2008
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MP3 2.6 MB 128 kbps 2:50
Story behind the song
1994 was not a good year for me, though I was writing a lot. My string of unhappy songs hit a peak after my dad died. This not so light number was deemed too rocked out musically for L&L. It was never heard by anyone but me and Steve Lessick. Never recorded, I found the lyrics and remembered most of the chords but had to reconstruct it a bit musically for this project. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 4.0 out of 5.0... "it has truth in it....Definitely worth recording....I wish I could hear it with a full orchestra ...something like The Moody Blues stuff" "Well, it seems a bit too “rockin’” for the subject and mood of the song. Try it slowed down and less jumpy. Also the lyrics don’t really say much. There are the words about how you are feeling and that’s obviously BAD, but then there are the lines about the deep dark secret and it’s not clear to me how they relate."
Lyrics
I’m a wreck of a man only half what I am Been down a little too long till the weakness grew strong No longer fire in my veins only puddles of dirty rain Quench the thirst before dusk or your heart turns to rust Its a deep dark secret Its the deep dark secret of the universe Its the deep dark secret Its the deep dark secret and its getting worse Fall asleep at the wheel and your soul it will steal If you do turn around you still sink in the ground No longer fire in my veins only puddles of dirty rain Quench the thirst before dusk or your heart turns to rust Its a deep dark secret Its the deep dark secret of the universe Its the deep dark secret Its the deep dark secret and its getting worse It puts the break on disease but you’re never relieved You haven’t been to this town but we’re all comin round No longer fire in my veins only puddles of dirty rain Quench the thirst before dusk or your heart turns to rust Its a deep dark secret Its the deep dark secret of the universe Its the deep dark secret Its the deep dark secret and its getting worse
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