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#289-Everything (2005)
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REM-ish half finished psychedelic alt rocker. Third cut on the Abrasive Flowers CD. Available upon request.
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
#6,101 today Peak #82
#347 in subgenre Peak #8
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2005
Uploaded
August 22, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.6 MB 128 kbps 3:58
Story behind the song
There is a personal story behind this song, but I'll keep it to myself.
Lyrics
Silly bygone days say hello to yesterday Funny wildest dreams buried deep in the haze Sonny open eyed looks down the street for the parade Sonny's out of time with the lost lonely gaze Sonny does smile in a photo from the past The picture is still here but the person did not last Catch a fallen ray in your pocket it will shine Glance down the road try to catch the smiling time Sonny had style he knew how to live People always took whatever he could give Everything's so far away so far away in time Everything's so close inside so close inside my mind Sonny once was here and the sky it had no clouds Now the rain it comes again and the thunder roars so proud Everything's a shadow of a shadow of the day Everything's in front of in front of yesterday Sandy beach filled streets walk down to the shore Stones in your shoes you cannot walk much more Drop a shiny penny to the bottom of the well Wishes you had many but now there's no one you can tell Fly through the years with a pocket full of tears Dip it in the well and drown away your fears Water garden flowers in the backyard right at dawn Everything...everything...everything
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