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Julia

Release date: 2nd March 2018

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Mt. Joy's 'Julia' finds the band caught between mundane anxiety and yearning for transcendence. The song opens in a restaurant, where nervous energy and self-consciousness crystallise around a waitress's smile, but the real drama unfolds in the gap between that small, human moment and the sprawling interior landscape the lyrics map out. References to TED Talks and fluorescent lights anchor the song in a particular kind of modern restlessness, one that chases self-improvement and meaning without quite finding either. The chorus pivots to address Julia directly, asking how long until everything dissolves. There's no clear answer, only the image of stumbling down Elysian Fields, caught between the Devil and the desire for someone to lead the way. Mt. Joy builds the track around this tension between paralysis and motion, between the wish to be fixed and the knowledge that you might not be fixable. The melody carries the weight of that ambivalence without resolving it.

"Julia" is a track by Mt. Joy, from the album Mt. Joy, released 2nd March 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Julia

[Verse 1]

Straighten my sweater, fix my spine

Step up in line, I'm ordering food high

And I don't know why

I'm so nervous I won't make it

'Cause that's my favorite waitress

Those big brown eyes

I don't know what I ordered

But she’s smiling like I can't afford it

Ooh-ooh, alright

Addicted to TED Talks, waiting for lift off

But I don't know it if it's doing much

‘Cause I just lost my mind in the fluorescent lights of my life

In my mind, a river running free like rapids

[Chorus]

But Julia

Fix me a blue sky in a warm sun

And I'll be back now

Julia

How long, how long ‘til I'm all gone?

'Cause here I am

[Bridge]

Just stumbling down Elysian Fields

The Spanish moss and a southern feel

The silver moonlight in the trees

And the Devil's in my bloodstream

Don't say you loved the old me

Woah, now

Woah, now

Woah, now, ooh

Woah, now, ooh

Stumbling down Elysian Fields

Your vision coming clear

That I don't know where home is

And the doors wide open

[Chorus]

Julia

How long, how long, how long?

Oh, lord, oh, lord

Julia

How long, how long ‘til it's all gone?

How long, how long?

[Outro]

'Cause you deserve a man to lead you in

But here I am just stumbling down Elysian Fields again

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