Hold Me Down

from 9/99-2/00 by Snipe Hunt

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This is a three-song medley (tracks #1-3) to open the album, the first two being original songs that didn't fit on the first Snipe Hunt album, and the third being an old honky tonk drinking song. The original lyrics were written as a character study about a couple starting off in co-dependency and ending up in B&D. Just written on a lark, really, and not about any experiences my friends (to my knowledge) or myself ever had. And all to a Bo Diddley beat morphing into New Orleans style before rocking the old country chestnut.

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Hold Me Down
(© 1997 lyrics--Walter Ehresman; music--Scott Brannock/Walter Ehresman)

[chorus]
Hold me down and rub that stuff on me.

I don't need your approval, and don't say that I do;
Just 'cause I do just what you say don't mean that I have to.
Your Cheshire smile don't mean a thing--I take a smaller view:
I don't need companionship--one half is half too few.

My aura is so beautiful--Nirvana is routine;
My center is so centered that Mahatma's face is green;
My chakra ain't infected and my bowels are just serene, and
I don't need your permission to be heard and not be seen (but)

[chorus]

I can dance alone just fine (at least I think I do)
My confidence is so sublime (I don't know what to do)
Ego walks the Golden Mile (in tacky platform shoes)
self-image is just self-contained (I put the blame on you)

credits

from 9/99-2/00, released March 1, 2000
Snipe Hunt:
Scott Brannock--bass, agogo bells, background vocals; Walter Ehresman--lead guitar, clean rhythm guitar, vocals, tube shaker; Vic Ramirez--vocals, dirty rhythm guitar, egg shaker; Pat Devaney--kit drums, conga.

p. 2000 Brannock/Devaney/Ehresman/Ramirez

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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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