Mary Margaret O'Hara told a story a couple of years back in an interview for the CBC. When she was 11, she found a copy of Ulysses in her house and ended up hiding away with it until she read it from cover to cover. "Dear God!" she thought to herself. "Someone's finally talkin' normal!" Hearing her say that made me laugh. It also made complete sense. Mary Margaret O'Hara is the Stephen Dedalus of vocalists. It certainly shows when she sings ‘When You Know Why You're Happy’ ... well what do you do then? "You move much better than you know. Not just some jerking to and fro" and as the song goes on she isolates phrases - "much better than you know” and "much better" and "not just some jerk " and "some jerk" - with a child’s innocence; she herself jerks verbally, deconstructing her own words in her own song; breaking down the chemical composition to something just as childlike but primal, self-assuring and frightening. As a songwriter, she chang...