MARY K   (Copyright2004)
Channel: Onowatt Sound & Vision
Date: 2021-11-01

John & Rose had the unique privilege of meeting Mary K Letourneau while bar hopping one night about ten years ago in Kent, WA.  They had a brief but memorable chat over some drinks.  John thought that Mary K looked like a sexy cartoon.  Her youthful husband was spinning tunes at the local bar, doing the DJ thang.  Though the lyrics in this tune are very 'filleted' open & completely abstract, they still have a strong potentiality for hitting their target; that being the judicial system's handling of Mary K Letourneau's court case & later conviction.  "...at the time of writing this song, when I first began noodling around with the chord progression, there was some family b.s taking place: I had just finished splitting up with my wife who was banging my brother (not Michael or Matt), I moved back from where she & I were staying in Bellevue, WA to Bellingham, WA.  Right at that point in time, my grandpa was dying from cancer.  I was asked by the family if I would stay at my gramp's house in the evenings (as another family member was already covering the daytime hours) & I immediately agreed.  My grandpa had lost my real grandma to cancer in 1968, one year prior to my birth, & my grandpa 'quickly' re-married.  Well, right after my grandpa died, my step-grandma's daughter unleashed her true colours at my mom, auntie & uncle.  Some court hearings took place at the spark of the above mentioned step-family member which were monetary in nature & resolved in a not so happy manner as far as my side of the family were concerned.  Anyway, I was writing 'this' particular song during this time; so my mood was that of a 'fuck off' mentality toward the courts.  Then, eventually several months later I resumed where I'd left off with this song, except I sang to myself, '...Mary K.'  A moment I've felt many, many times when writing songs; that 'ah-ha!' moment, the 'sure as sure can reassure & assured can be' moment.  And that's how Mary K came into being.  The 'put on a thong' & 'bend over this one' lyrics were my contemptuous thoughts & feelings for both my step families crazy moves as well as the court system that both allowed & rewarded them, unfairly in my opinion, of course.  So I just kept them (lyrics) as is & would like to see Mary K be enjoyed by all who feel about the whole thing the same way as I do.  I'm wanting to finish the version of Mary K that my brother Matt & I started, that one is a lot more detailed, emotionally speaking".
- John Schutte