{"id":15643,"date":"2013-03-11T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2013-03-11T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T01:25:38","slug":"listenwatch-samantha-crain-perform-paint-on-kdhx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-03\/listenwatch-samantha-crain-perform-paint-on-kdhx\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen\/Watch Samantha Crain Perform “Paint” on KDHX"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain<\/strong><\/a> recently released a fine new album entitled Kid Face<\/strong>. Crain is Oklahoma-born and of Choctaw heritage, and she’s been garnering adulation from critics, fellow-artists and fans for quite some time.\u00a0 Check Crain<\/strong> and her band performing her song Paint<\/strong> <\/em>off of the new album for KDHX <\/strong>a few weeks ago.\u00a0 You can watch other three other performances by Crain on KDHX HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crain<\/strong> writes this about Paint<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

“While on tour in Europe in the fall of 2011, I traveled alone and by train.\u00a0 This rewarded me with cherished reflection and silence.\u00a0 I began writing these lyrics while waiting in the Yatton Rail Station just between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.\u00a0 I was passing the time by peeling paint chips off of the declining shelter posts and began to feel detached from society.\u00a0 It was as if I was an apparition, gently and quietly moving around the globe, observing but not participating.\u00a0 After this feeling had come over me, I then became very excited, for this is what I had set out to become so many years ago, but then I became very downcast because it occurred to me; who loves a ghost?”<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The song’s well-wrought lyrics are as follows:<\/p>\n

“There where the paint had come off
\nThat\u2019s where I stopped
\nI looked at the flecks there
\nThen brushed them off
\nThought \u201cHold to your host,
\nthat was the most, the best you\u2019ll find\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying not to disappear
\nInto the shadows
\nInto a tunnel that doesn\u2019t end
\nDoesn\u2019t know where to go
\nSo where is that ghost?
\nThat was the most, the best you\u2019ll find<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a real problem here
\nI know
\nI\u2019m almost young this year
\nNow that I\u2019m older<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to be a cynic
\nIt\u2019s much too soon for that
\nStill it feels like something\u2019s missing
\nAnd that\u2019s a real drawback
\nSo where is that host?
\nThat was the most, the best I\u2019ll find<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a real problem here
\nI know
\nI\u2019m almost young this year
\nNow that I\u2019m older<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a real problem here
\nI know
\nI\u2019m almost young this year
\nNow that I\u2019m older”<\/p>\n

American Songwriter<\/strong> has a new interview with the intelligent, erudite and poetic Crain\u00a0<\/strong>that you can view HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n