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#242- In My Dreams (2002)
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Abstract love song with a hint of Jim Morrison, Roy Orbison and Gene Clark. (Unplugged first take)
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 #194
Peak in subgenre #44
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
September 06, 2009
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MP3 3.5 MB 113 kbps 4:16
Story behind the song
This one is a bit less weird. In fact it's one of my wife's favorites. I was trying to write a Gene Clarkish love song, but it sounds to me like a strange cross between Jim Morrison and Roy Orbison...then again as it is just me and a guitar on a first take-- it sounds like neither, unless it was produced in one direction or another.
Lyrics
In my dreams I’m walking outside myself Behind my eyes you’re here again Darkened stream the willows crying thin Half unseen you’re there I’m waiting beside you for a thousand lives Time’s shrinking beneath the crumpled leaves I feel you around me and I hold your light The flicker dissolving through the dawn In my dreams wind swirling around again Graying sands of time Dimming scene half shadow inside a lens Tries to touch my mind I’m waiting beside you for a million days Time's lying beneath the midnight waves You can confound me like a blackened maze Then the fever is over and you're gone In my dreams I hear you call out my name Echoes in the wild In my dreams I remember the broken smile Trying to be brave Just sit there beside me and count the days The hours, the minutes, seconds too Time is slipping behind and I’m lost in your daze Till violet dawn wakes me flickering with dew
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