Ethnically Ambiguous 2:
Shereen Lani Younes
&
Cooper Walker
From ANDRAS JONES: “I really liked Shereen. She came into the session swinging and I’m a sucker for that kind of thing. Some people like to argue. Maybe that’s one of the things Jews and Syrians have in common. If we sound like we’re having fun. We were!”
From COOPER WALKER: “Got another heavy hitting question on this one, “Will I get to murder Assad?!”, asked of the Pop Oracle by Shereen of Ethnically Ambiguous. I have to say this answer for me was the most synchronistic of the segments. I wrote “Marionette”, the song our beloved Pop Oracle chose for us, as a sort of love letter to someone that you can’t help but love even though to see it’s not good for you. This, in my mind, perfectly sums up Shereen’s question because she is Syrian, she must love her home and her relatives still living there, and yet there is this, disease of tyranny that continues to crop up which absolutely stifles the political and social progress of the country and causes pain and loss in the interim. It’s exactly what I wrote the song about, I just didn’t know it until now…”
MARIONETTE
Verse I
7 days a week, she digs those claws in deep Tightens up those strings and tells me baby, We’re gonna make you sing
And when you’re caught between them, My how those pearlies gleem…. Been the last thing he’s been between since she’s been 17
Chorus
Baby I don’t want to I need to Come on and make me believe you The best of the marionettes has left but I just keep running on back
Verse II
A little more today, you want to walk away But every step you take just makes you wanna, Turn around and stay
Cuz every play you stage, Comes pouring off the page Wraps around my mind and makes a maze of paper machet
Chorus
Baby I don’t want to I need to Come on and make me believe you The best of the marionettes has left but I just keep running on back
[Instrumental]
Bridge
I know your love for me is coming on strong But does it have to take so god damn long I know you love me baby let it show You know I’m never gonna let you go
Chorus
Baby I don’t want to I need to Come on and make me believe you The best of the marionettes has left but I just keep running on back
Baby I don’t want to I need to Come on and make me believe you The best of the marionettes has left but I just keep running on back [TAG] But I just keep running on back….