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

Crain writes this about Paint:

“While on tour in Europe in the fall of 2011, I traveled alone and by train.  This rewarded me with cherished reflection and silence.  I began writing these lyrics while waiting in the Yatton Rail Station just between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.  I was passing the time by peeling paint chips off of the declining shelter posts and began to feel detached from society.  It was as if I was an apparition, gently and quietly moving around the globe, observing but not participating.  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?”

The song’s well-wrought lyrics are as follows:

“There where the paint had come off
That’s where I stopped
I looked at the flecks there
Then brushed them off
Thought “Hold to your host,
that was the most, the best you’ll find”

I’m trying not to disappear
Into the shadows
Into a tunnel that doesn’t end
Doesn’t know where to go
So where is that ghost?
That was the most, the best you’ll find

There’s a real problem here
I know
I’m almost young this year
Now that I’m older

I don’t want to be a cynic
It’s much too soon for that
Still it feels like something’s missing
And that’s a real drawback
So where is that host?
That was the most, the best I’ll find

There’s a real problem here
I know
I’m almost young this year
Now that I’m older

There’s a real problem here
I know
I’m almost young this year
Now that I’m older”

American Songwriter has a new interview with the intelligent, erudite and poetic Crain that you can view HERE.