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Ehresman remenbers: "This was written as an entry, and was one of the 11 finalists, in the international ComProsers Spring 2008 songwriting contest out of Belgium, where musicians were asked to write and record a song in 30 days inspired by a specified short story. The story in this contest was 'Is Another Man's Freedom Fighter,' by Jacob Silverman. {https://sites.google.com/site/comprosers/home)."

--from the Walter Ehresman album "Monkey Paw Situation" (2009).

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/monkey-paw-situation

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKXPekqTzU

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Sprinting Nowhere Through the Air
(© 2008 Walter Ehresman)

She turned her back on all those things and walked into the sea;
And the people that had loved her wondered why it had to be;
But the eyes will see what they will see, and it will not be undone;
And the heart grows cold as silence and the soul, it just grows numb.

He filled his black hole daily, slept, then gathered more pain in;
And he stands before the faces, waving lists of mortal sin;
And he speaks like Johnny Appleseed but the words no longer burn
when empathy becomes routine and passion is mere form.

[chorus]
And they diverge like a flower when it opens to the sun;
And they head for each horizon sure they are the only one;
In solitude, they crystallize, as awareness trips the snare;
And they churn the fog up deeper, sprinting nowhere through the air.

Now she finds her peace in simple things, with formula and chart;
She’s protected now from damage in those matters of the heart.
In the fauna that should own this world, she’s learned a softer way
to forget her own humanity and get through another day.

He wrote those letters to himself when he was still naïve;
And he opens them from time to time, in case he might believe;
And he feels the pull of violence and surrender to the fray—
with a hill too steep to climb alone, from the bottom each new day.

credits

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Singer​/​Songwriter, released February 5, 2017
Walter Ehresman: lead vocals, guitars, keyboards. Special guest: Mandi Santiago: background 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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