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Sing Out for the Barnhouse Effect

from Global Search Party by Walter Ehresman

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A nice example right out of the gate that shows the Latin music influence on this album. Picture a Miami beach party.

Ehresman gives us the lowdown:

"This song was inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s first published short story, 'Report on the Barnhouse Effect' (1950), in which a Dr. Barnhouse develops telekinesis, which the military of course wants to turn into a weapon. Instead, Barnhouse zaps all the world’s weapons out of existence and then goes into hiding......At which point, all the world’s countries, for the first time in human history, unite together.....for the purpose of finding and killing Barnhouse so they can all get back to making and using weapons.......As the story ends, Barnhouse is asking his old student to join him on the lam and learn the technique so the weapons can be kept away after the elder scientist’s death......Musically, this song is a Steely Dan cha cha sort of thing."

Click here for the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdGlBG6B0w

lyrics

Sing Out for the Barnhouse Effect
(© 2019 Walter Ehresman)

If you’d told me 20 years back
that I’d be on the run from each and every sack
of crap with a gun, be they country or kin,
I wouldn’t stare at you now like I’d stare at you then.

Well, those generals got a lot more than they bargained for—
with their off-book money and the 51 doors
locked tight in the desert where you better not go,
or you’ll be lab rattin’-sorry, swirling down the data hole. (desaparecido)

You know that 90% that they say we don’t use?
I’ve been working on that problem for a decade or two.
I know all this killin’ is your idea of fun,
but I’ll be sending all your weapons into the heart of the sun.

And if you want to, baby, I can show you how it’s done;
‘cause someone’s got to mind the store long after I’m gone.

It’s a chilling thing to see how mad they can get;
But this global search party hasn’t found me yet.
You and me can teach some others while we keep on the run;
We gotta keep ourselves together, dodge the arrows and clubs.

You know that 90% that they say we don’t use?
I’ve been working on that problem for a decade or two.
I know all this killin’ is your idea of fun,
but I’m sending all your weapons into the heart of the sun.
I know all this killin’ is your acme of fun,
but I’m sending all your weapons into the heart of the sun;
Forever sending all your weapons into the heart of the sun.

credits

from Global Search Party, released May 20, 2020
Walter Ehresman: vocals & key-controlled vocals, guitars, 5-string electric bass, keyboards & key percussion, sampling, sequencing, drum machine programming.

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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