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--from the Walter Ehresman album "Blue-Eyed Devils" (2014).

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/blue-eyed-devils

See video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlQFOfVMZJ8

A Big Day for the Lizards" is a song Ehresman says was written way back in '89 while watching George Bush Sr. get inaugurated, but which wasn't recorded until 2013. Quite the elephantine gestation period! The song has the quirky art-rock danceability of the augmented touring version (with Adrian Belew, Bernie Worrell, etc.) of The Talking Heads. The song shows Ehresman really expanding his electric guitar palette into new and exciting directions. NOTE: with the alternating images of right wing bad guys with gristly feeding scenes involving packs of Komodo Dragons, the YouTube video for this song is not for the squeamish.

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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.

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Electronic Rockers, track released November 1, 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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