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Capture Mercury

from South of the Wall by Walter Ehresman

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A piano ballad with vintage Mellotron sounds sprinkled throughout. Lyrically, the song is a mediation on the casual cruelty of unthinking actions. You can hear the pain in Ehresman's plaintive voice as he sings about how important human relationships are to him, but "I will pass through parsecs unconnected/to keep from your inconstancy."

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Capture Mercury
(© 2017 Walter Ehresman)

Such movements of intersecting orbits here!
Such interactions every day;
Our fields collide—our forces come together;
What physics guides the new exchange?

Will they see you walk your words?
Consistency, in harmony (what you believe)?
Reflecting common courtesies (how you would want to be so treated)?
Does the whole thing sound absurd?

With fences down, I lay the entrance bare—
assuming that the guest will do the same;
Some common ground; a shared approach to hope for;
A method to the things you do and say.

[chorus]
I capture mercury;
Build my castles from the driest sand;
I net the wind, but see
no pattern from you I can understand.

My heart seeks out new friends and fellow travelers;
Life-sustaining as the air I breathe;
But I will pass through parsecs unconnected
to keep from your inconstancy.

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from South of the Wall, released October 31, 2018
Walter Ehresman: vocals, keyboards, electric guitars, 5-string electric bass, sequencing.

p. 2018 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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