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Another case of "one lyric makes this song," and another Spencer Krug joint. Julia With Blue Jeans On is an interesting Krug album: solo piano and vocals, no overdubs, no funky shit. So the lyrics had better be good. They're more straightforward than much of Krug's work with Sunset Rubdown, which was often full of shit like buffaloes and leopards and actors and violins and trumpets (sung about but not actually present in the instrumentation) serving as incredibly oblique metaphors for personal tribulations, probably. Moonface leans a little more direct, in places.

The lyric I love is the opening one: "I regretfully withdraw my offer to try to improve myself. I sincerely believe the results would be a disaster." There's nothing oblique about that, and I've grown to appreciate the connection to the title: I have not yet withdrawn my offer to try to improve myself, but I have come to realize the importance of loving the house I'm in, in the meantime.