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#169 The Spider (1997)
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Creepy little song with a Poe feel
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 #281
Peak in subgenre #48
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
August 10, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.7 MB 128 kbps 2:59
Story behind the song
I was particularly enamored by Poe one dark and stormy evening and I saw a spider and the rest is history. I also have been known to save spiders and all creatures no matter whether they bite or not. Weekly listeners were not impressed. It recieved some of my lowest ratings...2.0 out of 5.0...Comments included: "Too droning and undynamic" "Needs a bridge" "I don't get it"
Lyrics
The spider crawls out of the night Silver web spun out of sight The spiny legs that move so fast Across the room she weaves her trap I try to move but I lie still I hear her walk the windowsill I close my eyes but I open up my heart I try to find where the web starts Will I choose to catch my prey? Will I ever wake today? Will I see her pin point eyes? Will she spin me like her flies? The spider runs from the light of day The sun shines through the glistening ray It trickles down my arm and hand It binds my legs till I cannot stand Will I take away a life? Will I trap her? Will she bite? Will she crawl out of her nest? Will she run or meet her guest? The spider stings me hard tonight She crawls on me dark in the night And I will let her and let her be Take my blood just leave some for me
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