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--from the Walter Ehresman album "Life Outside the Tent" (2012).

Ehresman tells us: "Musically, this song was inspired by Jamaican, and second generation UK diaspora, ska."

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/life-outside-the-tent

See video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnhM8xdq2AI

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Unimpressive Specimens
(© 2010 Walter Ehresman)

The truest must be the loudest, and the whitest must be the rightest;
It’s a Teabagger Party!–now a black man’s in charge, we use substituted words like “socialist”;
And we will vote against our own pocketbook; and we’ll vote for the fellas who picked it;
And we’ll shoot ourselves right square in the foot, and not even realize that we done it;
And not even realize that we done it, and not even realize why it hurts.

We view every issue like it’s religious, and we live in a post-factual wilderness;
If you have to use your eyes, then you are lacking in faith; if you use reason, then you don’t love Jesus;
And they wonder if it ever seems iffy, and they wonder if we ever feel guilty.
As they study the limits of cognitive dissonance, we cleanse our schools of science and history;
And we cleanse our lives of any uncertainty; and we cleanse our minds of any lucidity.

[chorus]
Unimpressive specimens;
Testosterone poisoning;
Arrogant mediocrity–
kiss the whip, enjoy your tea.

A life lived like Coors advertisement–celebration with no accomplishment;
We seek fame just to say we are famous, just because our life is placed on some film;
And we wonder why we’re not feelin’ happy, and we wonder why our future looks crappy;
And the TV says it must be the dark ones–so we scream it, like we learned from our pappy,
like he screamed it like he learned from his pappy; like he screamed it like he learned from his pappy.


--Written the morning after the Teabaggers blew out the mid-term elections, November 2010.

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​World Music, released March 1, 2017
Walter Ehresman: vocals, guitars, 5-string electric bass, keyboards, keyboard percussion, electronic percussion pads, drum machine programming. Special guest--Bruce Salmon: trombone.

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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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