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A Ghost of Myself

from Blue​-​Eyed Devils by Walter Ehresman

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All Ehresman will say about this song is "Some romantic hurts can send you to a dark place, and make you question all your human relationships."

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A Ghost of Myself
(©2012 Walter Ehresman)

I am a ghost of myself; the guest unuprooted whose grasp of the uptake has gotten too slow.
An echo of someone who once thought of chances; a flicker of something that left long ago.

The grains in the glass spin the wheel one more turn;
The answers are paid for with silence to burn.
My gravity heavy, like planets more massive;
My skin won’t cool down, and I feel lost in transit.
The edges gone grey, and they lack definition;
And old pleasures now patterns of rote repetition.
–stare the night
–as I’m haunting myself;
–you can see it, my friend
–as you greet someone else;
–and I know that my time is fading
–or already gone;
–but the song, and the music, play on.

So I turn out the lights, and I listen to Sandy–
her voice from the place where no one can find me;
My eyelids feel heavy, but sleep doesn’t live here;
The weight bears me down, and I fall through the aether.
Ain’t it strange how the imprints from youth won’t extinguish;
The cold psychic toll lingers on to the finish.
–stare the night
–as I’m haunting myself;
–you can see it, my friend
–as you greet someone else;
–and I know that my time is fading
–or already gone;
–but the song, and the music, play on.

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from Blue​-​Eyed Devils, track released November 22, 2014
Walter Ehresman—vocoder vocals, keyboards, vocoder, electronic percussion pads, guitars, sequencing.

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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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