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That Summer Sun​-​-​2021 version

from My Back Pages, Revisited (With No Blonde) by Walter Ehresman

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[A MESSAGE FROM WALTER]

ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON THE DELPHI RISING 2010 ALBUM "FOR GRANTED."

I wrote this back in 2009 for a band I was in at the time, Delphi Rising. It's a post-apocalyptic love song, set among the human remnants living underground after the climate change meltdown. I put some subtle string parts on the original version of the song, but always thought it would be fun to re-do it as an orchestral piece.

Here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks5RB6_2NAU

Click here for the original version of the song: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/track/that-summer-sun

lyrics

That Summer Sun
(© 2009 Walter Ehresman)

I pick you up at midnight—and such a sight to see:
your skin so white and glowing; your lips as red as history.
I know a place where Ehrlich said some food shipped in today,
so buckle up baby, and let’s go.

We’ll take the 207 (there’s some trouble on the 9);
Put in the song we heard that night, where we danced (your hand in mine);
I love you in this moment, and whatever more may come;
I wish that things were not this way.

[chorus]
We live our lives out on the streets
beneath that phasing moon;
We’ve scaled our goals and trimmed our dreams—
we mad and happy few;
And when the colors
sneak up on the darkest night,
We run and hide from that summer sun;

[break]
Oh, I never thought we’d be underground;
Things have really gone south in this town;
“Mind the gap,” they say......

“Oh, my love, can you feel it? A breeze cools down the air.”
Our clothes, they fly into the back; your eyes, devil-may-care.
Our fingers barely touching—laid out to shed a few degrees;
Maybe we should go on back inside.

[chorus]

[chorus #2]
We live our lives out on the streets
Beneath that phasing moon;
We’ve scaled our goals and trimmed our dreams—
we mad and happy few;
Now the planet is broken,
it lasts the whole year long;
We run and hide from that summer sun

credits

from My Back Pages, Revisited (With No Blonde), released July 11, 2022
Walter Ehresman: vocals and vocoder vocals; keyboards, vocoder, sequencing.

p. 2022 Walter Ehresman. Snipe Bog Records.

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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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