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#252--Unblinking (2002)
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Surrealistic song inspired by John Lennon's Magical Mystery tour period songs, recorded by Blair Savercool
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 #233
Peak in subgenre #11
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
November 15, 2009
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MP3 4.2 MB 121 kbps 4:50
Story behind the song
the first recording in this project to be recorded by Blair Savercool. Maybe you'll notice the difference between a 15 minute effort and a 4 hour effort. There is actually some production on this one. Blair is playing the bass and shaker and the background electric guitar. I am playing acoustic guitar and electric guitar leads. I still want to add a cello. The vocals, including the subliminal background vocals are me of course. If you have headphones you'll want to use them for this one. This surrealistic song, which some people love and say reminds them of I Am The Walrus and others (like my wife) say make them nauseous, has a great background story. When I was 12 years old I injured my eye and went to Wills Eye hospital. While in the waiting room with my dad, a man entered with a sealed bucket that said "Biological Material." I turned to my dad and said I thought it was a bucket full of eyeballs. He laughed and said that was ridiculous because why would someone bring a bucket full of eyeballs into a patients' waiting room? We argued back and forth for 10 minutes until finally he decided to prove to me I was wrong. He went over and opened the bucket. We both stared down into a bucket full of eyeballs.
Lyrics
The salivating sultan with the Krakatoa handshake went watussi in formaldihyde The non euphoric phantom with the elevated pygmint went aa€™bundling with his blushing bride And youa€™re sitting in your Desoto in the hail And your wishing that your eyes were in the pail Where they can stare Unblinking without care The matriculating matron with the catatonic stigma went philosophizing nascent lies The stabilizing boskopman who understands the chloroform is crying in jar of flies And youa€™re sitting in your Packard in the hail And your wishing that your eyes were in the pail Where they can stare Unblinking without care The normalizing nuisance with the quantifying substance is gagging on his two front chins The tantalizing taster who works for the urologist is baking with his set of tins And youa€™re sitting in your Hudson in the hail And your wishing that your eyes were in the pail Where they can stare Unblinking without care The postulating poser who ruffles your dead feathers is quoting Jackie Gleason while in pain The mystifying mummy who wonders up in wrappings is polishing the tail fins in the rain How sweet it is! And youa€™re sitting in your Tucker in the hail And your wishing that your eyes were in the pail Where they can stare Unblinking without care How sweet it is!
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