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For the Sense of No Sense at All

from Global Search Party by Walter Ehresman

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Another song featuring nylon-string Spanish guitar, this melancholy acoustic ballad has a late night Mexican feel to it. Sparse and haunting.

Ehresman recalls: "One night last year, I dreamed the lyrics and music to the chorus of this song, and when I woke up I finished writing it and started recording.......My friend Rolando tells me is has a bolero feel.......It's a song about trying to scrape together a romantic connection amidst the losing global battle against the robber barons."

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For the Sense of No Sense at All
(© 2019 Walter Ehresman)

The message said we were overrun;
Falling back on all sides;
The Barons’ men have us out-gunned;
Leaflets fall from the sky.

Communications are compromised—
official lies on TV;
All reserves have been mobilized—
but will they answer our plea?

We know we cannot surrender;
We know some lines should not fall;
But hold me tight, and we’ll dance through the night
for the sense of no sense at all.

A soldier cries that it’s no use,
as they wheel him away;
Another says they’ll be no truce,
‘cause money must get its way.

But still we fight every morning;
And we fight through the day;
But deep in the night lies the warning
of human nature’s true face.

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from Global Search Party, released May 20, 2020
Walter Ehresman: vocals, classical guitar, acoustic/electric fretless bass, chimes.

Produced by Walter Ehresman at Snipe Bog Studios, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

p. 2020 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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