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--from the first Walter Ehresman album "Honor in the Swine?" (1989).

Regarding this bonus track, Ehresman recalls "This is one of the first songs I wrote and recorded. This was back when I was using a very primitive Tascam Porta-One cassette 4-track machine, which was a hissy little beast.....a fact that was not aided by the other meager equipment that I had at the time, not to mention that I was still learning to play, sing, write songs, do the studio recording by myself, etc........So, lots of excuses there, but I thought it might be interesting for people to see what things sounded like at the embryonic stage of my songwriting/recording career."

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Slow Time
(© 1988 Walter Ehresman)

The days and the nights blend together
in the times that we spend alone;
A twilight of the mind, counting ticks while slowly dying,
and staring blankly at the phone.

You feel that you’ve something to offer
in the closeness that adds up to two,
but the wounds from the past breed the fear that holds you fast
from every trying someone new.

[chorus]
If we could see through each other’s eyes--
those earnest ideas (real or imagined),
any pain would be justified by the
quantum jump between;
To see what we really mean;
Imploring, but unheard, unseen.
Misperception kills its share of those
who chance to gamble out of the slow, slow time.

Some kind of situation with someone,
could happen almost any day--
two people killing time, telling jokes and telling lies,
with nothing really much to say.

It could lead in some direction,
or take them just nowhere at all;
The delicate balance of interaction,
just a blink, hopin’ it don’t stall.

[chorus]

credits

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Blue Mood, released September 1, 2017
Walter Ehresman: vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar.

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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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