This Lonely Love

Official Video

The video for “This Lonely Love”, the lead single from How To Walk Away, appeared in August 2008. It was shot by Jonathan Gershon Stark at locations in Massachusetts.

Excerpts from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

“This Lonely Love” is the love of a song; of somebody else’s music — it’s love for a voice or for the spirit in the voice. When I listen to certain singers (a certain singer, in this case) I feel an intense and painful longing because of the fact that the voice hits me like an arrow in some deep primal elemental part of my being, of my psyche, of all the lives I have lived and don’t even remember but can feel when I hear the sound.

And sometimes it feels stronger than any connection I have ever had with any actual person that I actually knew.

But it is a lonely love, the love of a song or for the God in a singer’s voice. It is a lonely love because you can’t touch what you love. You never can. You can’t even see it. You can’t hold it. It can’t put its arms around you.

It was Andy Chase’s idea to take the piano and guitar riff from “It Should’ve Been You” and to build a new song around them. I went along with it because I too felt something more could be made out of the two parts. And it was fun. And I don’t have to pay myself for the sample.