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Windmill Crusader

from You Had Me At Goodbye by Samantha Crain

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  • Limited Edition PINK 180 gram QRP pressed vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A beautiful retro style tip-on gatefold jacket with a PINK 180 gram Quality Record Pressing pressed vinyl. Lyric sheet insert and glossy download card. All artwork by Pierrick Falmon. with option for signed by the artist 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 :)

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    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.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Time After Time, Pick Apart / Bloomsday (Husbands remix), I Guess We Live Here Now, A Small Death, You Had Me At Goodbye, Under Branch & Thorn & Tree, Samantha Crain/Murder By Death Cover Each Other, Kid Face, and 4 more. , and , .

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about

there is a common trope in horror films and alien films and scary movies, where there is a character who seems crazy, always saying something like "he's right behind you!" "you have to believe me!" "the world is ending!"...these sorts of things. so this song is basically from the perspective of someone who is that seemingly crazy person who has some insight to an impending doom and is trying to warn someone. and then the song moves from that crazed reaction to their strange bi-polar feeling of sadness and "i told you so" when the event actually goes down. its all very vague for reason---its about a trope in film, something that happens all the time, so i wanted to be vague as to suggest "i realize this is contrived, you could literally put any number of stories into this"...the windmill crusader image is from "don quixote" where he is attacking windmills on a hill because he is delusional and thinks they are giants. so the purpose of that image is for the character to say "i know you think i'm crazy, but i'm not crazy, because this is what a crazy person does, and i'm not doing that, i would know if i was crazy"

lyrics

So when you woke up/It wasn't safe/"I wasn't here born yesterday"/There is a darkness/There is a night/Something is coming your precious life/Precious life, precious life/I'm fine/You have to believe me/I'm so sure what you'll find/You have to believe me/These are dangerous times/I'm no windmill crusader/I'm not ill, not blind/Not spoon-fed or paid for/When you had it all/I was just enough/I was just enough for you/When you had it all/I was just enough/I was just enough for you/So I'll find you/Near the ocean/Dying softly/With the city burning/You'll ask me/Why I’m laughing/And also crying at the same time/I'll say I, I’m fine/You have to believe me/I'm so sure what you'll find/You have to believe me/These are dangerous times/I'm no windmill crusader/I'm not ill, not blind/Not spoon-fed or paid for/I’m fine/You have to believe me/I’m so sure what you’ll find/You have to believe me/You have to believe me/You have to believe me

credits

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

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