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--from the Walter Ehresman album "March, Scream or Cry" (2007).

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/march-scream-or-cry

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Marianas (Requiem for America)
(© 2004 Walter Ehresman)

An icy wind is blowing ‘cross the amber waves of grain; there’s a dimming of the sun;
And I pull my collar tighter, and walk down the hill again–feeling blank and numb.
And the handle of the burden seems a hundred miles away;
My hands are weak, my back is raw and sore.
Down here in Marianas, I will let the surface be, and pull the darkness tight around my soul;
around my soul.

The country that I come from thrashes in the final throes of an end it cannot see;
And I watch reflection leaving and all kinder notions go down the drain of cupidity.
All thoughts of common union go the way of weaker things, as the powers of denial scream for more.
Down here in Marianas, I will not swim with that tide–I’ll leave that to the animals ashore.

[break]

November would seem funny if it weren’t so awful sad–logic under the gun;
And the ancient sleight-of-hand wrapped in the terms of Goliad–the slaughter has begun.
Disheartened in the knowing that our people blindly flow to a trailer park magician’s every wave.
Down here in Marianas, I see where the three cups go, but there’s no one I can save;
no one I can save.

Corruption is the fashion, and malfeasance is the game–your leaders squared away;
Self-interest without limit, and all power without shame–“We the people” are Delay-d.
A corporation’s treason stains the hands of government....a failure drenched in blood of you and me.
Down here in Marianas, I can feel the hook sink in, even exiled at the bottom of the sea;
bottom of the sea.

[break]


–written following Bush’s presidential re-election in 2004. The Marianas Trench is the deepest spot in the oceans.

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Singer​/​Songwriter, released February 5, 2017
Walter Ehresman: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric bouzouki, keyboards, keyboard finger pad percussion, 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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