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Mara Levi​~​What Are You?

by Mara Levi

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Intro 00:45
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The Homo Song By Mara Levi Dear old Mrs. So and So, I thought I'd call and let you know Your daughter is a big HOMO And she's lying next to me She came here of her own volition No doubt wasting her tuition Still it's true and now you're wishin' She weren't here with me She's been acting out this way Since long before the fateful day I brought her home so she could stay Lying next to me No matter how you sulk and fret It's only girls that make her wet And since it's true, well you can bet She's lying next to me Dear old Mr.. So and So, I thought I'd call and let you know Your daughter is a big HOMO And she's lying next to me She loves you still, she always will But you can't fix her with a pill Or try to take away the thrill Of lying next to me She wants your love and your respect But if you push, she'll push right back 'Cause she's got friends and you've got JACK If you don't let her be For the apple of your eye There must be something you can try 'Cause I can't stand to see her cry Lying next to me Dear old Mrs. So and So, Just call her up and let her know She can be a big HOMO And you'll still love her so.
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I Get By 04:51
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I'll Smile 04:19
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Jesse James 04:10
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"The pleasure is mine But, baby, in time I will wither and wander away."
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Let Me 03:19
"Take these moments and let me love you."
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Sweet on You 04:36
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Time Goes 03:14

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Mara Levi (Mah' ruh Lee' vee) is the one-night stand Elvis Costello and Liz Phair never had—an amalgamation of bluegrass, folk, pop, and jazz, trimmed in a faux hawk and studded with a diamond-sharp wit. "What Are You?," her second solo CD, is intentionally eclectic and directly confronts the notion that anyone can be easily defined, or that people should be expected to have an answer to the question, "What Are You?"

Mara recorded every track on the album from her home in DC, using only instruments that she could play herself. The result is an album that sounds less like top-40 radio, and more like a reflection of Mara's varied musical interests. Many of the background vocals were arranged to mimic vocal groups from the '40s and '50s; bass parts run the gamut from simple bluegrass to actual countermelodies; improvised trumpet and vocal parts join open voicings of common chords to add elements of jazz; one song takes its structure and background vocals directly from Johannes Brahms; old and new voicings and sounds combine to give the album a complex and very human range and diversity. www.maralevi.com

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released March 24, 2007

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