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#286-Easy Street (2005)
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This rather dark tune may be slightly reminiscent of the Doors. It has a creepy organ.
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 #272
Peak in subgenre #15
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2004
Uploaded
July 18, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.6 MB 128 kbps 5:03
Story behind the song
As John Lennon once said "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see." This was written in the midst of everyone marching to the same drum. It's part of an unreleased CD by Abrasive Flowers in which I play all the instruments. This is the cut from the CD. It will be available for free download only temporarily. An unplugged solo version is on my youtube station, Lincolnsongsandmore
Lyrics
You go out on a fine yellow morning You walk down the cobblestone lane Just past the newspaper warning You ignore when there's nothing to gain You look around the wind is now churning You look up the sky is now gone You have a funny sneaking suspicion Something just might be slightly wrong And she's happy for you She knows just what to do You can walk in her sleep You're on Easy Street Pretty soon you'll almost remember Pretty soon you think you might know Someone once said the word "propaganda" Someone once said goodbye was hello And she's happy for you She knows just what to do You can walk in her sleep You're on Easy Street You look through her stained glass eyeglasses The truth is what you're told and not what you see You turn off the unpleasant pictures You keep your eye on your fine victory And she's happy for you She knows just what to do You can walk in her sleep You're on Easy Street The pie was eaten and the sky had some breadcrumbs Dying rainbow was emptied of gold She calls you with her perfume and tin drums The green fire burning wickedly cold And she's happy for you She knows just what to do You can walk in her sleep You're on Easy Street
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