NOTE: THIS TRACK HASN'T BEEN MASTERED YET, AND SO YOU'LL NEED TO TURN YOUR SPEAKERS UP A BIT.

Since my upcoming album will be called "Collapse, Cha Cha Cha," it seemed appropriate that I write an actual cha cha for it. And since I've never done one before, I thought it would be a fun experiment.....and this little ditty is the result. I was trying to sing in a French accent like Maurice Chevalier, but may have just ended up like Pepe the King Prawn.......

The Place of Lost Things (© 2025 Walter Ehresman)

It’s just a room, there was no gloom,

but it’s stolen all my precious things away;

The keys, the phone, one sock alone

in conspiracy, the dryer ate today.

It drives you mad—the things you had,

out in the open just a short moment ago;

But as you’re prone—that phantom zone

transports your stuff right to the nearby unturned stone.

[chorus]

Democracy………human decency—

we take for granted in our pampered Western life;

Attentions roam, we should have known

that good things slip away today without a fight.

Like children spoiled, the tantrums roil,

and maturity seems nowhere to be found;

You want it now, can’t figure how

the thing you starved is simply no longer around.

Walter Ehresman: bad French vocals; keyboards; synth bass; acoustic archtop guitar; AirFx; drum machine programming.

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