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--from the Snipe Hunt album "I Saw the Future (But the Damn Train Hit Me Just the Same)" (2002).

Purchase download of the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/i-saw-the-future-but-the-damn-train-hit-me-just-the-same

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HWY 149
(© 2002 Walter Ehresman)

Heading south from Gunnison, on Highway 149;
Hoping that the pass don't freeze 'fore I get to the other side;
Lake City ain't so small as it once used to be,
But it might just far enough to refuel my sanity.

These ain't times for thinking--you can see it on TV,
in the paper, on the movie screen; this ain't no time to be
asking questions of a kind where the answers slow you down,
and fill your mind with X-ray eyes every time you look around.

[chorus]
Our lives are managed by
bloodless accountants,
amoral climbers,
silk suit assassins,
and teflon bureaucrats.
Climbing through the aspens--
soft breezes blowin',
doesn't stop the knowin'
that all of this is goin' soon
just to keep some bastard fat.

I remember as a child, climbing through these silver trees;
Poking through forgotten mines; tossing lines into the stream;
And when I scrambled to the top, raised my head to look back down--
there was no sign Man's blighted hand ever touched that virgin ground.

There's something 'bout the mountains; there's something 'bout the air;
When the tenth lie of the day is heard, I find my memories wander there.
So I packed the truck, shut off the lights, put on Willie for the ride,
and I cleared my mind of sadder truths out on Highway 149.

[chorus]

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Singer​/​Songwriter, released February 5, 2017
Walter Ehresman--acoustic guitar, mandolin, fretless electric bass; Vic Ramirez--vocals.

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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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