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Afilado A Pedacitos (Sharpened to Bits)

from I Saw the Future (But the Damn Train Hit Me Just the Same) by Snipe Hunt

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I wrote this song in 1987 and recorded it for my first solo album "Honor in the Swine?", which came out in 1989. When Vic and I were recording the last Snipe Hunt album years later, he translated it into Spanish and I came up with some music that went way farther out there than what I had back in the original. Vic does some great ranting here :-)

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Sharpened to Bits (English lyrics)
(© 1987 Walter Ehresman)


Got to pick
that proper station--
don’t get caught
messin’ ‘round.
Cultivate the look that says
“I gave it no attention”;
‘long as it seems that you don’t care;
Get that funky stuff out of your hair.

Conversation
on the latest thing--
all the people
see you scoff.
Look into your window and I
see you watch Madonna,
I don’t know if it makes no difference the sound is off
(‘cause you)

[chorus twice]
Gotta keep that image sharp, hey!
Gotta keep that image sharp, oh!
Gotta keep that image sharp, hey,
Sharpened to bits!

(bop badda doo da, did did did did, etc.)
Hey, god, don’t whittle that thing off!

[fast instrumental break, with scat]

See a trend
say “Fuck it;
I’s got no
need to know.
It’s a full time job
ignoring all the shit that goin’ down;
You won’t see that shit on me (oh), me’s the only thing I’s got to see see see!”

“To tell you the truth,
I’ve got my personal own trend;
You may see that once, but
you will see me again (‘cause I)”

[chorus]

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from I Saw the Future (But the Damn Train Hit Me Just the Same), released September 1, 2002
Walter Ehresman: clean rhythm guitar, lead guitar, congas, chorus grunt vocals, keyboards, groove box programming.

Vic Ramirez: lead vocals, dirty rhythm guitar, Spanish translation.

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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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