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--from the Walter Ehresman album "Handwedge From the Trap" ('99).

Ehresman recalls: "This one waswritten after seeing a guy get out of a white minivan (complete with Bob Dole for President bumper sticker) one Monday morning, staring at the ground, shaking his head and saying "no, no, no, no" as he shuffled on his way to work."

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/handwedge-from-the-trap

See video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqCwUbFW3zM

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Saying No to the Question Unasked
(©1999 Walter Ehresman)

[chorus]
Don't want adventure;
Don't want adventure;
You don't want adventure, saying "no" to the question unasked.

There's too many choices in the world today--
don't want to look up to the left or the right;
I got no time for the different or the new, I gotta
gather up the family and protect them from the voices in the night;

[break]
Oooooh, something's grabbin' hold of me;
Oooooh, something's got a'hold of my toe;
Oooooh, baby, there's a stranger knockin' at my door,
tryin' to tell me things that I don't want to know.

I don't like to call it "conservatism";
Don't like to call it anything at all;
There's a portion of my brain that I don't want infected
with the sound of the tree in the forest, ooooh baby did it fall?

[break]
[chorus]

credits

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Hard Rockers, released May 1, 2017
Walter Ehresman: vocals, guitars, fretless bass, keyboards, electric drum pads, custom electric solidbody mandolin (the SnipeMando).

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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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