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BONUS TRACK: Echo Down the Years​-​-​version #2

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Chill by Walter Ehresman

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

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/well-lets-look-at-your-track-record-shall-we

Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UHYxsb0nV8

There are three versions of this song: 1) main version, with Walter singing and doing the flute solo spots (on the same album, and also included in "The Best of......Singer/Songwriter" compilation); 2) this version, with Patricia Jacobs-Munoz taking the lead vocal, and Walter doing the string section solo spots; and 3) a version with Vic Ramirez taking the lead vocal and Walter doing the solo spots on guitar (appears as a bonus track on his "Life Outside the Tent" album, also on this website).

lyrics

Echo Down the Years
(© 2009 Walter Ehresman)

In a time, so far from now, they'll look back on us here
and wonder how a love could grow in such a fallow ground;
But from those dusty pages, there's a light that shines so clear--
that legendary love we found.

Starlight twinkles overhead long after the star is gone;
Ripples cross the ocean to a distant shore at dawn;
Messages in bottles drift off to eyes not yet born--
So our love will echo down the years.

From that time of turmoil, in a land so in decline--
scholars sift through remnants and they try to read the signs;
Looking for some spark to show a moment so sublime--
So our love will echo down the years.

[chorus]
Memories may fade
of ordinary things;
Men and their fortunes fall to ruin.
But your eyes of blue still shine a way to better days,
and prove the best things, in the end, endure.

In that fragile future, for the people that remain,
hope for inspiration is the treasure sought to gain;
Rekindling those hearts to find the strength to start again--
So our love will echo down the years.

credits

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Chill, released August 1, 2017
Walter Ehresman: guitar, 4-string fretless bass; keyboards (strings, percussion), drum machine programming.

Special guests--Patricia Jacobs-Munoz: vocals; Max Grossenbacher: piano.

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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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