Name: A Big Day for the Lizards
Duration: P00H03M36S
Description: I wrote this song while watching Bush Sr. get inaugurated way back in '89, but only got around to recording it in 2013. Talk about an elephantine gestation period.......

A Big Day for the Lizards

from Blue-Eyed Devils by Walter Ehresman

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I wrote this song while watching Bush Sr. get inaugurated way back in '89, but only got around to recording it in 2013. Talk about an elephantine gestation period.......

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A Big Day For the Lizards
(© 1989 Walter Ehresman)

It was a big day for the lizards,
as he crawled to his place on the throne.
He slithered past the honor guard;
Benediction with a long forked-tongue.

The front row is the donor list–
smiling only if a reptile could smile;
Puff adders in the owner’s box,
and spitting cobras riding big crocodiles.

Komodos in the limo
(those seats, you know we’ll never get clean);
Gila monsters down on K Street,
making deals to feed on you and on me.

The carnage getting thicker now,
the bodies piling up to our knees;
It’s feeding time all the time [repeat]

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from Blue-Eyed Devils, track released November 22, 2014
Walter Ehresman—vocals, guitars, 5-string electric bass, 4-string electric/acoustic fretless bass, keyboards, key percussion, D-Beam, Opti-Freak, sampling, sequencing, drum machine programming and manipulations.

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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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