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BONUS TRACK: Ice Age Cell Phone (new song)

from My Back Pages, Revisited (With No Blonde) by Walter Ehresman

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[A MESSAGE FROM WALTER]

This bonus track is a new song I wrote and recorded during the COVID pandemic. It's a bit of a goof, and a fantasy inspired by seeing people drive like shit all over town with their faces buried in their phones. Hey, a fella can dream.........

Here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qsMTeGaozE

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Ice Age Cell Phone
(© 2021 Walter Ehresman)

Just another bad driver, looking at their phone;
There’s someone at the wheel, but there’s nobody home;
I had a funny notion as they weaved side-to-side;
Adaptive evolution peering through the mists of time.

[chorus 1]
Cave man livin’ with an Ice Age flair—keep your head on a swivel, man, there’s danger everywhere;
Not much future for awareness not maintained—that guy who checked his signal’s been reduced to a bloodstain.
You might get lucky once, but listen up to what I say:
--‘cause when that saber-toothed tiger comes, you’ll have to put that phone away.

We’ve got a lack of critters in the country today
to cull our herd of those with no attention to pay;
Instead of being dinner for the local carnivore,
they’ll take out you and me, then put the pedal to the floor;
I think I see the answer, staring right in the face—
a little basement cloning, find the plans in cyberspace;
Release ‘em by the road, let nature take its course;
Natural selection of the road’s oblivious.

[chorus 2]
Cave man livin’ with an Ice Age flair—keep your head on a swivel, man, there’s danger everywhere;
Not much future for awareness not maintained—that guy who checked his signal’s been reduced to a bloodstain.
You may think posting selfies is your highest task today
--but when that freakin’ wooly mammoth comes, you’ll have to put that phone away;
--and when that three ton sloth comes, you’ll have to put that phone away;
--and when that saber-toothed tiger calls, you’ll have to put that phone away.

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from My Back Pages, Revisited (With No Blonde), released July 11, 2022
Walter Ehresman: vocals, guitars, 5-string electric bass, keyboards & key percussion, key drum loop triggering.

p. 2022 Walter Ehresman. Snipe Bog Records

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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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