She said she was born that way
She always felt that way
She left home at age sixteen
Got a job what you're supposed to do
That's what you've got to do
She fell in love and settled down
In a council playce there on the edge of town
Cry when she heard a happy tune
Till they took her job away
They just took her life away
And doing nothing isn't fun
When you've nothing from wich to run
Nowhere left to run
She'd visit the social every day
Every time be turned away
Every time be turned away
Over glass and blackened spoons
Children grow old so soon
Past the kids who gather there
Pain masked by narcotic stares
But no one really cares
Her dreams were cut up and bled dry
A million voices in her cry
And Julie hates, just what she doesn't know
And Julie hates, she hates the world below
But Julie loves,
She loves too much to know
The best thing, I feel about the Levellers, is that their music IS obvious and to the point. You aren't required to decipher any deeper meaning from this song, it's what it is, Its tragicaly sad, and beutifully written and performed, possibly one of the best track ever, by any band.
This is a song written by bassist Jeremy Cunningham about a girl that he knew in his days as a drug addict. He would occasionally buy heroin from her but felt sad for the kind of life that she'd condemned herself to (he's now clean/tea-total)
To me, this song is about a young woman who lives a sad and lonely life. Her depression is partly due to how the country treated her; "she'd visit the solical everyday, everytime be turned away". The mention of narcontics brings the thoughts that she suffered drug abuse. However I could be wrong about all of this but I hope I'm not. This is such a sad song, a girl who was forced to suffer in life when all she needed was help and support. I love this track and the levellers rock!
yeah. Not a hard one to crack. Truth be told, very few of their songs are. I still think they're great though. And I love the bagpipes at the end.
Yes, the Levellers generally are direct, but even so it took me quite a while to work out what "blackened spoons" was referring to. Maybe I'm just too sheltered...
Julie hates but Julies loves.
This is my partners favourite levellers track. He calls me 'julie' cause of this song...
This is the saddest song ever written.....ever!
@twistedhippy they have lots of sad songs, the one that springs to mind first is called '61 seconds of pleading' it's about a lady called Lorraine Whiting and her untimely death 😕✌🏻lol here I am, replying 13 years later
@twistedhippy they have lots of sad songs, the one that springs to mind first is called '61 seconds of pleading' it's about a lady called Lorraine Whiting and her untimely death 😕✌🏻lol here I am, replying 13 years later
Such a sad, sad song, a horrible indictment of modern British society!