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#124-After Dinner (1991)
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Existential lyrics-a most peculiar story with a modern-day 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
Genre
Rock Garage Rock
Charts
Peak #445
Peak in subgenre #14
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1991
Uploaded
January 27, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.1 MB 128 kbps 4:26
Story behind the song
I worked this one up a bit more as I feel it is is probably closer stylistically to what I am currently doing (circa 2005 and later) than any song so far. It has existentialist lyrics with a slight Edgar Alen Poe influence. It is a most peculiar story. With a real band it might sound like something--what though I am not quite sure. Mp3 listeners gave this an average rating of 4.0... A few people really disliked it though most found it compelling. Comments included: "Wierd" "I like it. I listened to it many times as I’m doing other things and I’m still not sure what it’s about, but I like it. It has a great mood." "Good groove" "Starts up slowly but nice build-up" Note--This is one of my personal favorites. I think it has an original horrificly absurd quality all it's own.
Lyrics
After Dinner I was walking in the woods alone I didn't take my Irish Setter but I took my cellular phone I went a ways out past the new devlopment tract I could make a killing if I bought a couple-that's a fact Smelled something funny not too far off Something sick and funky not too far off Didn't want to see what's too far off And I knew it was time to go home I started jogging back towards the lights of my neighborhood I was happy to get home and man the jog it felt so good I turned the keys in my lock and opened up the door Then I walked inside and found my own corpse on the living room floor Smelled something funny not too far off Something sick and funky not too far off Didn't want to see what's too far off And I knew it was time to go home I ran back out and I dialed on my cellular phone But I got no dial tone, just a Gregarian drone The stars in the sky they went out like someone turned off the light I ran back in the house and now it feels like I'm dying of fright Smelled something funny not too far off Something sick and funky not too far off Didn't want to see what's too far off And I knew it was time to go home After dinner I was walking in the woods alone After dinner I was walking in the woods alone Alone Alone Alone Alone Smelled something funny not too far off Something sick and funky not too far off Didn't want to see what's too far off
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