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Sunday Disease

from We'll Be Right Back! by Snipe Hunt

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Yet another song from Ehresman's experience working for a Texas state agency. He recalls "It was heart breaking, seeing how politics compromised doing the people's business every day.....and ironically, the better you did your job on the cases you were assigned, the more hell you cause politically......from outside the agency but also from your own bosses (since we were doing cases against politically-connected business interests).....And this toxic work environment led to what we used to call 'Sunday Disease', where your dread of starting the next work week crept all the way into the preceding Sunday and ruined that day with saturations of stress."

The song appears to be Snipe Hunt's stab at doing the Led Zeppelin heavy blues rock thing.

Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuTWOROq60

lyrics

Sunday Disease
(© 1996 Walter Ehresman)

I get so weary on a Sunday; looking forward 'well as feeling back;
Five more days of degradation makes the seventh seem oh so black.
Suffer fools, suffer fools; I ain't no Christian, you got to know;
What's a young man got to do these days to try and keep a little bit
of soul? (But you know....)

[chorus]
Everybody's needs a little extra protection--
but the cost is much too high; and
if you buy into heavenly glory
then you might as well just lay down and die;
and if you become a political man
(or latch onto one as close as you can),
can you still look in the mirror every night,
as a cog in that kind of clan?

Spending all my time with bad men, without a scrap of morality.
Trying to do the right thing while the wrong guys try to find some
other place for me to be.
It can make a man so tired, it can make a man get mean;
But I can't let this Sunday disease make me one of the unclean.

credits

from We'll Be Right Back!, released May 1, 1999
Walter Ehresman--vocals; lead, rhythm & slide guitars; Vic Ramirez--rhythm guitar; Scott Brannock--bass; Pat Devaney--drums.

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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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