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Oh Dear Louis

from You Had Me At Goodbye by Samantha Crain

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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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    Comes in a mini replica of the retro style tip- on vinyl gatefold case, with artwork by Pierrick Falmon. with option for signed by the musician or not.

    *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 :)

    Includes unlimited streaming of You Had Me At Goodbye via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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about

this song covers my lame attempts at being a good friend to people with depression or mental illness. i've had many people in my life over the years who i've cared about deeply but i've always felt ill-equipped at helping them through their hardest times, specifically in times of depression or bouts of mental illness. i've always felt i never said the right thing or wasn't doing enough and didn't know how to find out what it was i should be doing. so turning my seemingly shallow attempts at helping friends into a catchy pop song with vague lyrics, seemed to encapsulate my eye-roll deserving behavior in these situations. always loyal but completely inept.

lyrics

It was late in May or maybe it was June/Laying in the grass, the sky a light maroon/And I was in charge of everything you told me I should be/Exercising, philosophizing, sober for three weeks/Then you went inside/It was too long a time/Oh dear Louis I was in the yard/Oh dear Louis I wasn’t too far to hear you cry/We were at a party by Palmer Square/And I was sick of hearing ‘bout this guy’s band/So I went to the porch to breathe in all that isotopic air/Maybe you lost track of time or maybe you just got too scared/You locked yourself in a room/The panic consumed/Oh dear Louis I was just outside/Oh dear Louis I wasn’t too far to hear you cry/Oh dear Louis I’m always on the line/Oh dear Louis I wasn’t too far to hear you/Oh dear Louis you’re always on my mind/Oh dear Louis I’m not too far to hear you cry

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from You Had Me At Goodbye, released March 24, 2017

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