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--from the Walter Ehresman album "Life Outside the Tent" (2012).

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/life-outside-the-tent

Ehresman explains "I’ve always been fascinated with how far the rubber band of cognitive dissonance in the mind of the American right wing voter can stretch before it snaps and causes a violent backlash that employs all those guns that the people collect with such a sexual intensity. The ability of the right wing contingent of the populace to swallow bullshit that is at such odds with the facts in front of their eyes amazes me. But the rubber band will snap. It’s just a question of when, and what will be left of the country when it does."

See the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0cJTpoMLo

lyrics

Day of the Downtrodden
(© 2010 Walter Ehresman)

When meaning’s raped from language, and
the people can’t distinguish, so they
eat the turd they’re given, smile and
take no further umbrage, while their
masters sneer and snicker in the
triple-guarded penthouse, and they
toast the foolish masses, and the
flame of mankind flickers.

And the Mad Men from 5th Avenue
look down upon their business, and they
shake hands at this pinnacle of
form perverting truth, and then they
snort another line from off a
tongueless Russian child-bride, and they
lean back fat and sassy
on their psychopathic joyride.

[chorus]
Rusty chains drag ‘cross the floor;
Hooded eyes forgotten by the light;
Someone screams from up ahead–
a vengeful wind comes tearing from the night;
Your memory flickers to a time without shackles,
and you find a blood-red strength in all the
things that you’d forgotten, and the
velvet rope is trampled on the Day of the Downtrodden.

The Lexus wheel is spinning, in the
heat from all the fires, and the
metal clicks in tempo to the
master pinned and screaming, and the
camera pulls to wide-screen, and we
see across the city--all the
serfs and all the vassals have
reclaimed their sense of meaning.

How will history absorb this?, when the
economic slavery finally
broke the camel’s spine, and then we
saw the naked avarice;
Now heads are on the flagpoles, and
some scenes are quite medieval, but you
know some sins are bigger than
forgiving hearts can hold.

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Chill, released August 1, 2017
Walter Ehresman: vocals, keyboards & key percussion, loop triggering, 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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