Julienne Taylor’s enchanting and captivating voice raised comparisons with both Norah Jones and Eva Cassidy, but Julienne has her own unique and distinctive style influenced from her Scottish ancestry.
Julienne’s latest album, A Time For Love, a collection of original songs and new interpretations of love songs with a Celtic influence, has been accumulating impressive sales throughout S.E.Asia in 2009.
The musical journey of Julienne Taylor has been a long and winding road. Having played in various bands in her High School years and studied dance and expressive mime in Edinburgh with Kinny Gardner (Lindsay Kemp Company), Julienne was convinced by musician friends who had previously made the transition, that a move to London was the only way to seriously pursue a career in music. So at 17 years old she did just that..
'Home', somewhat strangely, for the first few months of her arrival in the capital was living out of a suitcase in student nurse accommodation in Guys Hospital, being signed in as a guest by nursing staff friends and 'changing' her name every other day to avoid detection.
A flat in an unsalubrious part of S.E.London, which she shared with former bandmembers from Scotland was to become a more permanent base with Julienne working by day and writing songs by night - soon discovering that success does not come suddenly. A spell of homelessness on London's streets was only to compound this further.
Subsequent years saw Julienne working at Shepperton Film Studios learning the craft of sound engineering whilst regularly singing six nights a week with blues and soul bands and lending her voice as a backing vocalist for established acts. Later, a serious car crash would lead Julienne to pursue a studio engineering career whilst still persevering with her own musical ambitions
In 2001, whilst working with an Edinburgh based independent label, and following a series of successful live performances at the Edinburgh Festival, Julienne was signed to Virgin Records. A delay in the release of her first album however, meant the momentum was lost and in a world of priorities, the album and Julienne slowly became misplaced in the shuffle.
Now happily signed to Evosound there will, no doubt be many more twists and turns on the long and winding road, but Julienne will take them all in her stride as her perseverance and talent are finally being rewarded with the growing success of her latest album and her live performances.
Toybox
Julienne Taylor Lyrics
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The dark clouds linger
Out in the sky tonight
And I'm waitin forever
Alone with my thoughts that gather
And you are somewhere else
In the world tonight
Lonely, feelin', I'm lost in the life
You're leadin' on this freeway
I travel is a dark and distant light
And I'm waitin forever
Alone with my thoughts that gather
And you are somewhere else
In the world tonight
Toybox waitin' full of anticipation
Free world spinnin'
Into your arms tonight
And I'm falling - save me
With all the wounds that you gave me
Tired of, believing
In the words and the dreams you're dealing
Lie's fall like the season
From your lips silent lullaby
And I'm waitin forever
Alone with my thoughts that gather
And you are somewhere else
In the world tonight
Toybox waitin' full of anticipation
Free world spinnin'
Into your arms tonight
And I'm falling - save me
With all the wounds that you gave me
You hide behind the tears that fill your eyes
I'm the lie you keep locked up inside
I'm your toybox waitin' full of anticipation
Free world spinnin'
Into your arms tonight
I'm your toybox waitin' full of anticipation
Free world spinnin'
Into your arms tonight
"Toybox" by Julienne Taylor is a song about loneliness, waiting, and lost love. The lyrics convey the feeling of being forgotten and abandoned in a world that moves on without you. The first stanza sets the mood of the song with the imagery of dark clouds that linger in the sky. The singer is waiting alone with her thoughts that gather, while the person she loves is somewhere else in the world tonight. She feels lonely and lost, traveling on a freeway that leads to a dark and distant light.
The chorus of the song speaks about a toybox that is waiting full of anticipation, while the free world is spinning into the arms of the person she loves. She is falling and hoping to be saved from all the wounds that he gave her. The second stanza speaks about tiredness of believing in the words and dreams that he dealt with, and how the lies fall like the season from his lips. She is waiting alone with her thoughts that gather, while he is somewhere else in the world tonight.
The song ends with the realization that she was just a lie that the person she loves kept locked up inside. In the end, she is just a toybox waiting full of anticipation while the free world is spinning into his arms tonight.
Line by Line Meaning
Friday, rainin' no cause to be celebratin'
It's Friday and raining and there's no reason to celebrate.
The dark clouds linger
Dark clouds remain in the sky tonight.
Out in the sky tonight
The sky is outside tonight.
And I'm waitin forever
I'm waiting for a long time.
Alone with my thoughts that gather
My thoughts are gathering as I am being alone.
And you are somewhere else
The person I'm singing about is somewhere else.
In the world tonight
They are somewhere in the world tonight.
Lonely, feelin', I'm lost in the life
I feel lonely and lost in life.
You're leadin' on this freeway
The person I'm singing about is leading on a freeway.
I travel is a dark and distant light
The journey I'm on feels dark and distant.
Toybox waitin' full of anticipation
My toybox is waiting with anticipation.
Free world spinnin'
The world is spinning free.
Into your arms tonight
I want to be in your arms tonight.
And I'm falling - save me
I'm falling and need to be saved.
With all the wounds that you gave me
I'm hurt from the wounds you caused.
Tired of, believing
I'm tired of believing.
In the words and the dreams you're dealing
I'm tired of believing the words and the dreams you made up.
Lie's fall like the season
Lies fall like the season.
From your lips silent lullaby
You tell me lies in a quiet and calming way.
You hide behind the tears that fill your eyes
You hide behind the tears that fill your eyes.
I'm the lie you keep locked up inside
I'm the lie you keep locked up inside.
I'm your toybox waitin' full of anticipation
I'm the person waiting with anticipation to be your toybox.
You're leadin' on a fantasy
You're leading me on with a fantasy.
Free world spinnin'
The world is spinning free.
Into your arms tonight
I want to be in your arms tonight.
Writer(s): j taylor, g campbell, wood
Contributed by Jordan J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Worawith Ounpeng
Do that to me one more time please . ^