--from the 2020 Walter Ehresman album "Global Search Party." https://walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/global-search-party

Another song featuring nylon-string Spanish guitar, this melancholy acoustic ballad has a late night Mexican feel to it. Sparse and haunting.

Ehresman recalls: "One night last year, I dreamed the lyrics and music to the chorus of this song, and when I woke up I finished writing it and started recording.......My friend Rolando tells me is has a bolero feel.......It's a song about trying to scrape together a romantic connection amidst the losing global battle against the robber barons."

For the Sense of No Sense at All

(© 2019 Walter Ehresman)

The message said we were overrun;

Falling back on all sides;

The Barons’ men have us out-gunned;

Leaflets fall from the sky.

Communications are compromised—

official lies on TV;

All reserves have been mobilized—

but will they answer our plea?

We know we cannot surrender;

We know some lines should not fall;

But hold me tight, and we’ll dance through the night

for the sense of no sense at all.

A soldier cries that it’s no use,

as they wheel him away;

Another says they’ll be no truce,

‘cause money must get its way.

But still we fight every morning;

And we fight through the day;

But deep in the night lies the warning

of human nature’s true face.

Walter Ehresman: vocals, classical guitar, acoustic/electric fretless bass, chimes.

Produced by Walter Ehresman at Snipe Bog Studios, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

p. 2020 Walter Ehresman. Snipe Bog Records.

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