Julie - The Levellers

Julie was a lonely girl

She said she was born that way

She always felt that way

She left home at age sixteen

Got a job that’s what you’re supposed to do

That’s what you’ve got to do

She fell in love and settled down

In a council place there on the edge of town

She’d feel alone in a crowded room

Cry when she heard a happy tune

It would be nice to holiday

Till they took her job away

They just took her life away

And doing nothing isn’t fun

When you’ve nothing from witch to run

Nowhere left to run

She’d visit the social every day

Every time be turned away

Every time be turned away

A hundred stairs to her new room

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

Julie waits, her world is her window

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