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I Guess We Live Here Now

by Samantha Crain

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    This is a very limited edition 10" vinyl copy of "I Guess We Live Here Now" EP. It has full color folder with lyric insert and special color in color (magenta and cream) pressing.
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    *A NOTE ON SHIPPING COSTS*
    I get a lot of emails about the pricey shipping costs so I just want to address it here. I'm not scamming you. These are the actual costs of the US postal service priority mail right now. Especially shipping outside of the USA, the costs are very high, I know. I wish I could do something about it to make this more accessible but I can't. I only send priority mail now instead of a cheaper media mail because I've had so many issues in the past with things getting lost or destroyed if I don't send priority mail and then I end up having to reimburse the cost of the record as well as the shipping and I've lost a lot of money that way so this is really the only option for me shipping right now unfortunately. Just know that all the shipping costs are going towards actual postage, I'm not pocketing any money beyond the cost of the item. I understand if you can't stomach the shipping cost, I don't blame you....love you anyways :)

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1.
Bloomsday 03:19
Bloomsday Hey, everything must always start again, That’s how it goes my little Mickey Finn They rob you and they kick you when you’re out like a light, I know it’s happening And everybody’s wondering where their little light is And everybody’s wondering where their little light is Give me something, Bloomsday’s coming, open up the doors and have a goddamn beer Ring the baker, the butcher, the charioteer, the palm readers in Salem, the engineer And everybody’s wondering where their little light is And everybody’s wondering where their little light is This little light of mine, i’m gonna let it shine This little light of mine, i’m gonna let it shine So are you a socialite, do you buy candles to pricey now to light? Or are you an Okie from Okmulgee just making due with wax and pride? And everybody’s wondering where their little light is And everybody’s wondering where their little light is This little light of mine, i’m gonna let it shine This little light of mine, i’m gonna let it shine
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There Is No Mail Today I’m glad you got away, I just can’t seem to leave I feel antagonizing, just this widow’s peak I am my own canary, in my own mine of coal I get the strongest drink in the unstirred punch bowl I give myself no margin but to the edge I’ve strayed The yard is overgrown, there is no mail today The shadows move around me, all it would take to change is a movement of myself to some other place I am a deep snow angel in the melted snow I put my hand on the plow, turned away from the row Now I don’t know the devil, but I know my own dismay The yard is overgrown, there is no mail today I am a broken gambler, the house will always win Looking up to the sky and there’s no sky within But maybe not to gamble is the greater wrong So I will be that villian and that canary blonde The ground is warm and healthy and so much time to play The yard is overgrown, there is no mail today
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Malachi, Goodbye You lit a match Recited a line from a poem of mine Like that would land A favorable kiss But I let go your hand Street lights spill in the cab as we ride through South Norwood and Woodside Malachi, goodbye There’s nothing happening, goodbye You call to me I can not be named I’m never the same From birth, you see I rise and I fall I hem and I haw In life, in time You best look alive You wouldn’t know how to abide with me Malachi, goodbye Malachi, goodbye There’s nothing happening, goodbye I doubt that our conversations stay with me too long You can go back to your family I can be alone I wish you well If I bear in mind To wish anything Your way, It’s late I’ll miss my bus home This may be the end but wait Malachi, goodbye Malachi, goodbye There’s nothing happening, nothing happening Nothing happening, goodbye
4.
Two Sitting Ducks The humble mechanic, a grease covered Van Gogh Said the automatic transmission was blown And you laughed as he told you. “Man that’s just our luck”. “I guess we live here now”, just two sitting ducks And the world was wide I found some delight Over every part I wasn’t free, I was young in mind and heart You worked painting houses I worked as a maid We drank too much shit beer At the oxbow lake We said nothing could kill us, Prey to no hunter for blood We didn’t know then the upshot We’re just two sitting ducks Oh the world is wide I find some delight Over every part I’m always free if I’m young in mind and heart What good is waiting for trouble when I am always free? Stand with me on the level I am always free I am always free

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released April 9, 2021

All words and music by Samantha Crain
The song “Bloomsday” includes a reworking of the traditional gospel song “This Little Light of Mine”

Recorded at Lunar Manor Studio in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Produced by Samantha Crain
Engineered by Brine Webb
Mixed and Mastered by Erik Wofford
Additional engineering by David Jones, Matt Kelly, and Scott Brackett

Samantha Crain: acoustic guitar, piano, percussion, keyboards, vocals
Paddy Ryan: drums, percussion
Alberto Roubert: percussion
Brine Webb: bass guitar
Penny Pitchlynn: bass guitar, vocals
Scott Brackett: synthesizers
Isaac Stalling: electric guitar
Kyle Reid: MPC programming
Collin Ferrell: clarinet
Matt Kelly: strings and string arrangements
David Jones: banjo

Paintings by Micah Wesley
Art Direction by Samantha Crain
Design by Fudgegraphics

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