{"id":73,"date":"2026-05-07T18:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:41:24","slug":"one-eyed-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/2026\/05\/07\/one-eyed-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"One Eyed Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Eyed Maria by Lobster Optimus Ltd\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2251576154&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes:<br>We spent a lot of time on this one compared to others on the first album. John and I both were throwing around ideas for the lyrics. I confess, the pickle fork was my idea. I had to redo the guitar track at one point because I just didn&#8217;t like the sound. The backing track was a lot of fun to make. It was one of those times when it was difficult not to laugh.<br>Jeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics by John Lister<br>Maria was born to a rich family<br>She was as happy as a child could be<br>She had two eyes one blue one brown<br>She met a little boy who\u2019d make her smile turn round<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Enrique\u2019s bi-polar condition it varied<br>And the tiny pickle fork of which he\u2019d carry<br>He didn\u2019t think twice as he drew<br>And into Maria\u2019s eye it flew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>This is the ballad of one eyed Maria<br>And how she had gotten her name<br>She only had one eye of which she could see of<br>And a boy named Enrique\u2019s to blame<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Maria\u2019s family gathered around<br>And summoned the doctor from out of town<br>But it was too too late it was true<br>Maria lost one eye brown not blue<br>Maria\u2019s father concocted a plan<br>So that Enrique would understand<br>Papa he wanted some damage done<br>To a little boy who never packed a gun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>This is the ballad of one eyed Maria<br>And how she had gotten her name<br>She only had one eye of which she could see of<br>And a boy named Enrique\u2019s to blame<br>Papa decided not to kill<br>The same little boy playing William Tell<br>Instead her father made them wed<br>Enrique found this day he would dread<br>This was a fate worse than death<br>Because Maria had terrible breath<br>This is the end of a sad, sad story<br>About Enrique, Maria and her eye of glory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:We spent a lot of time on this one compared to others on the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}