Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield (born 27 July 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, The Juliana Hatfield Three, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads.

I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine

Quotes

That's the harm in mystery, all you know is what you see.
I got no idols.

• I never really cared about achieving commercial success. As soon as I was signed to a record company, I felt like I made it because I was able to quit my day job. To me, success was just not having to have a boss and not having a day job. So I’ve been living my own version of success since the early ’90s when I first got signed and I haven’t had a job since then. I’m pretty happy about that. When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn’t suit my temperament at all. I’m a terrible public person. I’m happier where I am now.
  • Interview by Matt Ryan for MAGNET magazine

• A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they’re leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.
  • Interview by Matt Ryan for MAGNET magazine

• The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.
  • Interview by Matt Ryan for MAGNET magazine

Become What You Are (1993)

• I am only human, I am weak.
  I want his power inside of me.
  And I'm not talking about a piece of meat.
  I'm saying something really deep.
  • "President Garfield"

• I'm a goddess in your eyes, and I will never die.
  I was born of people's needs, and what they don't wanna believe.
  But I am a liar, that's the truth, go home and think it through.
  That's the harm in mystery, all you know is what you see.

  I got no idols.

  • "I Got No Idols"

Only Everything (1995)

What a life, I watch it like a scary movie
What a life, what a life, what a life.

• What a life, you wear it like propriety
  What a life, you do it like you really mean it
  What a life, I watch it like a scary movie
  What a life, what a life, what a life.
  • "What A Life" · official video

• Beauty can be sad. You're proof of that.
  When the damage is done, you're damaged goods.
  That's not to say it's not okay.
  I wouldn't have it any other way.

  A heart, a heart that hurts, is a heart, a heart that works.

  • "Universal Heart-Beat" · official video

• Reach inside carefully.
  Feel my psyche.
  Make it last.
  Put this moment under glass.
  • "Bottles and Flowers"

• Love is everywhere I'm not allowed.
  I feel he's been to hell, but he's near to heaven now.
  I need to see it. I can't not have it, so inscrutable, so beautiful.
  • "Hang Down From Heaven"

Bed (1998)

• This can't be real
  I've never seen so much
  This must be a joke.

  I don't know how to feel
  I haven't earned it yet
  Everything fades so fast.

  • "Let's Blow It All"

Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure (2000)

You pushed your greatest chance away
But still I really want to say
I forgive you.

• Okay I gotta go
  Maybe I don't want to know
  There's too much truth in this room.
  • "Total System Failure"

• How do you get up in the morning?
  Another wasted life it's so boring
  The system never failed you
  You failed yourself and all of your friends
  Now your heart is failing too
  A total system failure they pronounce you
  • "Total System Failure"

• I showed you how to touch a star
  I helped you forget who you are
  Baby, you can drive my car
  Over to the right side of the tracks

  You pushed your greatest chance away
  But still I really want to say

  I forgive you.

  • "Noblesse Oblige"

Beautiful Creature (2000)

• I never needed this
  I never needed anyone
  I meant every word that I said
  It's true
  I wasn't talking to you

  And I'm sorry that I must go so soon
  Please forgive me for finding something real and pure and true

  Somebody is waiting for me

  • "Somebody Is Waiting For Me"

In Exile Deo (2004)

• I've been sleeping through my life
  Now I'm waking up
  And I want to stand in the sunshine
  I have never been ecstatic
  Had a flower but it never bloomed
  In the darkness of my wasted youth
  It was hiding in the shadows
  Learning to become invisible
  Uncover me
  • Sunshine

• Impossible to love
  Is all that I know how to be
  But in my heart
  I keep repeating
  You didn't mean to hate me

  I still love my enemy.

  • "My Enemy"

Made in China (2005)

There's a hole in the sky
I stood and stared
I feel it inside what isn't there…

• Can you take it when I break it give it back to the posers who fake it
  Suck the milk out of the lilacs we were so innocent you can't go back
  What the fuck it's a miracle I’m even here
  You're over me but I’m alive so what do i care
  Standing in the cement
  • "What Do I Care"

• There's a hole in the sky
  I stood and stared
  I feel it inside what isn't there
  The children are lost we can't find them anywhere

  Hole in the sky
  I'm crying still crying for you.

  • "Hole in the Sky"

• Hole in the sky
  I'm coming I’m coming with you.
  • "Hole in the Sky"

External links

• Juliana Hatfield official site
• Discography and Lyrics
• Some Girls official site
• Blake Babies official site
• Interview by Matt Ryan for MAGNET magazine
• Unofficial Ye Olde Records Discography