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When You Turn (One Foot in the Elephant Dung)

from Blue​-​Eyed Devils by Walter Ehresman

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When You Turn (One Foot in the Elephant Dung)
(© 2011 Walter Ehresman)

I didn’t see the coming of the train;
I didn’t see the filter in your brain;
You put me on the outs–
with the scowl, the frowns, the pouts–
and I’ll never see your brighter side again.
It’s like there is a switch inside your head
that breaks off when you go from green to red;
I was too transfixed to go,
so I stayed and watched the show,
now I’m dented by the cruelty you said.


[chorus]
When you turn
–Everything I say is wrong;
When you turn
–You won’t listen to my song;
You done put me in the box,
with no chance to pick the locks;
Ripped my heart up with the hammer and the tongs.


I didn’t see the changing of the guard;
I didn’t know the girl could be so hard;
Must have been there from the start–
just another fickle heart–
the X-ray specs you sat on, now in shards.
Now I sit here, ruminatin’ on the day
when your bucketful of love just went away;
And I wouldn’t want it back–
now I’ve climbed down off your rack–
and there really isn’t fuck-all more to say.

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from Blue​-​Eyed Devils, track released November 22, 2014
Walter Ehresman—vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar, guitar-back percussion, sequencing, flatulent canine plush toy.

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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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