We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Snipe Hunt - Afilado a Pedacitos (Sharpened to Bits)

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Electronic Rockers by Walter Ehresman

/

about

--from the Snipe Hunt album "I Saw the Future (But the Damn Train Hit Me Just the Same" (2002).

Purchase download of whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/i-saw-the-future-but-the-damn-train-hit-me-just-the-same

This track is a hip hop Spanish-language remake of a song ("Sharpened to Bits") Ehresman wrote in 1987 and recorded for his first solo album "Honor in the Swine?" ('89). This drastic re-imagining of the song is done by the band Snipe Hunt for their final album, when the group was down to a duo of Ehresman and Vic Ramirez. Lyrically, the song is about being so conscious not to be image-conscious that the behavior becomes self-defeating. A response to hipsterism, which is (as we know) rampant in Austin and has been forever.

lyrics

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 will 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]
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.

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; me’s the only thing I’s got to see see see! (baby, I got to 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]

credits

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Electronic Rockers, track released September 1, 2002
Snipe Hunt--Walter Ehresman: clean rhythm & lead guitars, congas, background vocals, keyboards, groove box programming; Vic Ramirez: vocals, dirty electric rhythm guitar, Spanish translation.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Walter Ehresman image

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

contact / help

Contact Walter Ehresman

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Afilado a Pedacitos (Sharpened to Bits), you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now