Name: Follow the Leader
Duration: P00H02M19S
Description: a 1971 studio demo -- one of my relatively rare social commentary songs -- we decided not to include it on Twice Upon A Rhyme because it was inconsistent with the more fanciful tone of that album

Follow the Leader

from Spun Dreams by Paul Levinson

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a 1971 studio demo -- one of my relatively rare social commentary songs -- we decided not to include it on Twice Upon A Rhyme because it was inconsistent with the more fanciful tone of that album

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Follow the Leader (lyrics by Paul Levinson, 1971)

We say our love has come of age
but we're just dancing on a page
We think we're in the promised land
but we're just playing in the sand

(chorus)
Monkey see, monkey do
He's like me, she's ilke you
Follow the leader
Mr. Smith, Mrs. Jones
laughing in monotones
Follow the leader

The plans we make are full of hope
but we're like clothespins on a rope
And though we sing we change our song
with every breeze that comes along

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(bridge)
Rose on a window sill
grows at the whim of a gardener's will
Oh there's a seed in our soul
turning into coal

(chorus)

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from Spun Dreams, track released September 26, 2020
lyrics and music by Paul Levinson; all vocals Paul Levinson; all guitars Peter Rosenthal; piano and percussion, Paul

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Paul Levinson New York, New York

Paul Levinson recorded w/ Stu Nitekman & Ira Margolis as The New Outlook (The Other Voices) for Atlantic Records, 1968. In 1972, he released an LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme on HappySad Records. Big Pink, Vivid & Whiplash all re-issued the LP, 2008- 2012. Old Bear Records released a new album of his sci-fi songs, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, in early 2020, w/ vinyl on Light In the Attic Records. ... more

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