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--from the Walter Ehresman album "No Unifying Theme" (2004).

Purchase download of whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/no-unifying-theme

See video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWB_NIeU-4E

"Xenophobia," uses the empty, sterile music of the dance club to drive home the morally vacant tendency the title describes. The lyrics address xenophobic manifestations both in the US and abroad. But hell, it's got a beat and you can dance to it.....so go ahead and give it a "9"!

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Xenophobia
(© 2003 Walter Ehresman)

We're sitting in our pews,
with our nationalistic views;
And you shall not question what we say--
you have no right to choose.

And we strong-arm the UN--
are you foe or are you friend?
And our god has got his eye on you,
and he's about to count to ten; (but)

[chorus]
You can keep your xenophobia;
Genocidal red myopia;
Compensation (small libido),
wrapped up in your flag burrito;
You're a monster truck Napoleon;
Pay them off with blood samoleons;
And your factions don't mean diddley,
and your schism sure ain't witty.

We are so incomparable--
you'll find no stink on we;
And our culture is so venerable,
our stuff should not be seen.

We're all living in this place,
and you know we'll save our face;
And you know that all your "new world" laws
we won't allow to cause disgrace.

(Hey, you wanna come up to my country and see my etchings? Well you can't!)

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Electronic Rockers, track released January 1, 2004
--Walter Ehresman: vocals, keyboards, sequencing, groove box programming and manipulations.

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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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