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Your Supersonic Stare

from Life Outside the Tent by Walter Ehresman

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--I see this track as a kind of sequel to a couple of Cold War parodies by Donald Fagen on his first solo album, The Nightfly. These songs, "I.G.Y." and "New Frontier," take an ironic look at the gung-ho war-tech fetishism and America-first jingoism in the time of Dr. Strangelove.

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Your Supersonic Stare
(©2011 Walter Ehresman)

What a flashy future, now the war's come to an end;
Technology will save us, and our style is on the mend;
Roarin' through the city on my throbbing new machine--
us cowboys are all confident that the girls know what we mean.

All that silver gleaming; sound of thousand violins--
smooth lines are important, but we gotta have those fins;
Radio waves crackle as you roll up to the door;
Situation critical, but I've got to have some more (of)

[chorus]
Your supersonic stare; your supersonic stare;
I've got to duck and cover from your supersonic stare. [repeat]

[break]
When you keep your room so clean,
our hair grows fine, our eyes don't gleam;
That ol' bunker mentality
will never get the best of me;
And I don't need the sun to shine
when you're down here with that behind;
There's just one thing that makes me trip--
you scare me when your goggles slip.

[chorus]

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from Life Outside the Tent, released January 1, 2012
Walter Ehresman: vocals and vocal effects, guitars, 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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