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LOST SHIP
JULIANA HATFIELD
from the 2019 American Laundromat Records LP
Weird
LOST SHIP
Unidentified flying object
Hovering over the Harvard projects
If this were real I would be ready
Waiting out on my balcony
Take me away from here
I'm stuck for good, I fear
I can't move, I can't change
It's too late
I wanna ride on the spaceship in my mind
And transcend emotion
Close the door, kill the lights
Lie back and fly so low across my own private ocean
No tenuous intimacies
I'm weightless, airtight and empty
I just wanna be where I want to be
I wanna see what I wanna see
No love, no money
No hate, no jealousy
No one has any power over me
I get back on the solitary plane
No love, no money
No hate, no jealousy
No one has any power over me
I get back on the solitary plane
I wanna ride on the spaceship in my mind
And transcend emotion
Close the door, kill the lights
Lie down and fly so low across my own private ocean
I wanna ride on the spaceship in my mind
And transcend emotion
Close the door, kill the lights
Lie down and dive into my own private ocean
Oh I've been hurt too many times
Too many bad situations
Close the door, kill the lights
Lie back and fly…
Words and music © 2018 Juliana Hatfield
Consistency, as any songwriter will tell you, can be a difficult thing to achieve in an industry dominated by money, fashion and the glorification of everything that is evanescent, ephemeral and frequently ridiculous. For more than three decades, Juliana Hatfield has been writing and releasing songs remarkable for their blending of her classic pop/post-punk sound and her uncompromising commitment to telling the truth about her times by telling the truth about herself.
Her new album Weird is no exception. It reflects her decision to withdraw from a world that's becoming crueler, more intolerant and harder to live in with each passing day. But Hatfield's decision should not be viewed as an act of evasion or defeat. Rather, it's an attempt to assert her independence as a human being and an artist and show people that it's okay to disengage and be alone, that to retreat from the noise and hype is not necessarily to retreat from life but instead to rediscover it via small pleasures enjoyed and reflected upon in solitude. Weird is a brave work of art and, like everything Juliana Hatfield does, a tuneful, memorable and refreshingly honest one.
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Weird, her seventeenth solo album, will be released by American Laundromat Records on 18 January 2019.
WEIRD
JULIANA HATFIELD
American Laundromat Records 2019
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Last updated 16 March 2021
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