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Aqua Girl
04:17
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Aqua Girl
(© 2010 Walter Ehresman)
Hurricane with no pressure drop, and
flash flood with no rain that's falling;
Monsoon in my heart when I thought symmetry was all our mornings.
Champagne is diluted, and my
left finger is naked, and our
first dance of the evening is an empty spot out on the floor.
[chorus]
Here comes Aqua Girl;
She turns her love off like a faucet;
You think you're swimming, then you've lost your buoyancy;
Only Aqua Girl;
She let's you drown into her blue eyes;
The water's fine, and then you're in the Aral Sea.
Her theme song has no warning, and the
elements are just fickle, and we
fell apart in a moment when I thought our love would last forever;
Now I sit in the rubble, and I
am my own super-hero, 'cause I
control the flood of the waters from my eyes—it drowns the bitter laughter.
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Your Supersonic Stare
03:52
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Your Supersonic Stare
(©2011 Walter Ehresman)
What a flashy future, now the war's come to an end;
Technology will save us, and our style is on the mend;
Roarin' through the city on my throbbing new machine--
us cowboys are all confident that the girls know what we mean.
All that silver gleaming; sound of thousand violins--
smooth lines are important, but we gotta have those fins;
Radio waves crackle as you roll up to the door;
Situation critical, but I've got to have some more (of)
[chorus]
Your supersonic stare; your supersonic stare;
I've got to duck and cover from your supersonic stare. [repeat]
[break]
When you keep your room so clean,
our hair grows fine, our eyes don't gleam;
That ol' bunker mentality
will never get the best of me;
And I don't need the sun to shine
when you're down here with that behind;
There's just one thing that makes me trip--
you scare me when your goggles slip.
[chorus]
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Ode to Nicole Atkins
04:07
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Ode to Nicole Atkins
(© 2011 Walter Ehresman)
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Unimpressive Specimens
05:35
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Unimpressive Specimens
(© 2010 Walter Ehresman)
The truest must be the loudest, and the whitest must be the rightest;
It's a Teabagger Party!--now a black man's in charge, we use substituted words like "socialist";
And we will vote against our own pocketbook; and we'll vote for the fellas who picked it;
And we'll shoot ourselves right square in the foot, and not even realize that we done it;
And not even realize that we done it, and not even realize why it hurts.
We view every issue like it's religious, and we live in a post-factual wilderness;
If you have to use your eyes, then you are lacking in faith; if you use reason, then you don't love Jesus;
And they wonder if it ever seems iffy, and they wonder if we ever feel guilty.
As they study the limits of cognitive dissonance, we cleanse our schools of science and history;
And we cleanse our lives of any uncertainty; and we cleanse our minds of any lucidity.
[chorus]
Unimpressive specimens;
Testosterone poisoning;
Arrogant mediocrity--
kiss the whip, enjoy your tea.
A life lived like Coors advertisement--celebration with no accomplishment;
We seek fame just to say we are famous, just because our life is placed on some film;
And we wonder why we're not feelin' happy, and we wonder why our future looks crappy;
And the TV says it must be the dark ones--so we scream it, like we learned from our pappy,
like he screamed it, like he learned from his pappy; like he screamed it, like he learned from his pappy.
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She's Like the Khumbu
02:59
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She's Like the Khumbu
(© 2011 Walter Ehresman)
Rigid and elegant, icefall of traps and snares;
A deadly place to walk; beware the raven hair;
Unwary traveler may think the ground is hard--
fall spinning through the dark, when you let down your guard.
The path has shifted now, and danger may be near;
The map from yesterday will not protect you here;
You think she's past it--now's the time to have a care;
She'll bring the hammer down, and leave you standing there.
[chorus]
She's like the Khumbu;
She's like the Khumbu, baby;
She's like the Khumbu, ohhh;
She's like the Khumbu, children.
Moods unpredictable, with weather change like that;
You get a little cocky--pretty soon you'll eat your hat;
So tread most nimbly now as you commence your climb,
or you'll fall farther than the longest rope can find
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The Company Will Swallow You
(© 2011 Walter Ehresman)
Well, the Company got nasty, and the workers took the fall;
We only wanted what was fair, but they want to keep it all;
And the rich men spit down at your feet, and they give not half a damn;
And they’ve left us weeping children, broken wives and one more dram.
[chorus]
Put your shoulder to the lever, boys, and all you ladies, too;
The ballot and our voices raised will help dislodge the few
who want to rule the many, and we cannot let ‘em win–
or the Company will swallow you, and we’ll not see you again.
They call it “legal fiction” but it feels damn real to me;
You feed the corporate interest and it shits out poverty;
And the few who ride up on its back can barely see the ground,
and when the beast stamps out your life, they will not hear the sound.
[chorus]
It’s been the same old story where you see the nobles tread,
but their bullshit’s gotten better, and it’s all come to a head;
The system cannot bear the weight of this kleptocracy,
so pull your heads out from your arse, and vote for you and me.
[chorus]
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Sunset in Djenne'
06:38
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Sunset in Djenne’
(© 2011 Walter Ehresman)
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Day of the Downtrodden
05:37
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Day of the Downtrodden
(© 2010 Walter Ehresman)
When meaning’s raped from language, and
the people can’t distinguish, so they
eat the turd they’re given, smile and
take no further umbrage, while their
masters sneer and snicker in the
triple-guarded penthouse, and they
toast the foolish masses, and the
flame of mankind flickers.
And the Mad Men from 5th Avenue
look down upon their business, and they
shake hands at this pinnacle of
form perverting truth, and then they
snort another line from off a
tongueless Russian child-bride, and they
lean back fat and sassy
on their psychopathic joyride.
[chorus]
Rusty chains drag ‘cross the floor;
Hooded eyes forgotten by the light;
Someone screams from up ahead–
a vengeful wind comes tearing from the night;
Your memory flickers to a time without shackles,
and you find a blood-red strength in all the
things that you’d forgotten, and the
velvet rope is trampled on the Day of the Downtrodden.
The Lexus wheel is spinning, in the
heat from all the fires, and the
metal clicks in tempo to the
master pinned and screaming, and the
camera pulls to wide-screen, and we
see across the city--all the
serfs and all the vassals have
reclaimed their sense of meaning.
How will history absorb this?, when the
economic slavery finally
broke the camel’s spine, and then we
saw the naked avarice;
Now heads are on the flagpoles, and
some scenes are quite medieval, but you
know some sins are bigger than
forgiving hearts can hold.
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I'll Walk Out of Here
03:33
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I’ll Walk Out of Here
(© 2010 Walter Ehresman)
Then I walked through that door,
–with no question inside;
–with no thought of what more
might be shaved from my life;
What kind of life
–is left to me now?
–is worth all the fight?
Chained by all that I know;
Chained by what’s gone down,
–by the boot unexpected;
–by the spears of the crown.
Starved for kismet reflected.
Starved for eyes that see inside--
past the mask beneath the mask I cannot see;
And why would I be worthy
of such archeology?
Is it fair to ask a woman for that leap?
No wonder I don’t sleep,
and jump back at sudden sound;
There’s nothing on this side to hold me down;
No call to stick around.
And my footsteps drum steady,
–with no fear in my soul;
–and no anger besets me;
and I release control.
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I'm Ready
02:58
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I'm Ready
(© 2011 Walter Ehresman)
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Echo Down the Years
(© 2009 Walter Ehresman)
In a time, so far from now, they'll look back on us here
and wonder how a love could grow in such a fallow ground;
But from those dusty pages, there's a light that shines so clear--
that legendary love we found.
Starlight twinkles overhead long after the star is gone;
Ripples cross the ocean to a distant shore at dawn;
Messages in bottles drift off to eyes not yet born--
So our love will echo down the years.
From that time of turmoil, in a land so in decline--
scholars sift through remnants and they try to read the signs;
Looking for some spark to show a moment so sublime--
So our love will echo down the years.
[chorus]
Memories may fade
of ordinary things;
Men and their fortunes fall to ruin.
But your eyes of blue still shine a way to better days,
and prove the best things, in the end, endure.
In that fragile future, for the people that remain,
hope for inspiration is the treasure sought to gain;
Rekindling those hearts to find the strength to start again--
So our love will echo down the years.
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Your Supersonic Stare--instrumental mix
(©2011 Walter Ehresman)
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Walter Ehresman San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more
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