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--from the Walter Ehresman album "Well....Let's Look at Your Track Record, Shall We?" (2010).

Purchase download of whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/well-lets-look-at-your-track-record-shall-we

See video here:
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This track deals with how the darkness in men's souls manifests through their politics. It was written during the Summer of 2009, when Right Wing loonies from the Tea Party (ginned up by bottomless corporate money coming in on the sly) disrupted town hall meetings around the country where national health care was discussed. Ehresman sighs, “It is very disappointing that Obama never seemed to get that you can't be the only person in a negotiation working in good faith and expect to get a good process or good result at the end......I would have thought someone from Chicago wouldn’t be that naive.” The song features a wonderful sample of Congressman Barney Frank calling bullshit on one of the Tea Baggers at a town hall meeting that summer. Additionally, there's a lyrical tip of the hat to a pivotal speech in the movie The American President.

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Bad Faith
(© 2009 Walter Ehresman)

The rest of us are done talking to you;
Those are moments of our lives that we will never get back;
You would argue to the death to say the sky is not blue;
You would change your own name to say I said it incorrect.

Bad faith--in everything that you say;
Bad faith--we won't negotiate that way;
It's a waste of all the good people's time,
and evolution marches forward and it leaves you Flat Earther's behind.

Serious problems call for serious men,
and your 15 minutes are just about up;
You're running interference for the nobles on the hill;
3-card Monty with a crucifix (more jack for the corrupt).

Bad faith--in everything that you say;
Bad faith--when she winks her eye and prays;
It's a waste of all the good people's time,
and evolution marches forward and it leaves you Flat Earther's behind.

You go Pinocchio on the cable news,
and perpetuate a rot into the national mind;
So I'm calling for a gut-check in the land of the free,
and for marginalization of the purposely blind.

Bad faith--in everything that you say;
Bad faith--distort, destruct and delay;
It's a waste of all the good people's time,
and evolution marches forward and it leaves you Flat Earther's behind.

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Electronic Rockers, track released October 31, 2010
--Walter Ehresman: vocals; keyboards, loop triggering; groove box programming; sampling; 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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