A knife-wielding man who took offense to the song "Better Luck Next Time" and attacked the lead singer and guitarist of the Seattle band Flowmotion was charged with first-degree assault on Tuesday.
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According to a Mukilteo Police Department report, Sampson told arresting officers that he ought to be charged with murder because he intended to kill the singer-guitarist. "[He] was singing about me and how I should die," Sampson told police, according to the report.
"Better Luck Next Time," a song about regret and redemption, begins with the lyrics: You sent your letter off to the judge Asking for one more chance of her sweet, sweet love. Trying to escape the mistakes of a life on the greener side of grass. And you'd give up anything to get it back.
The band was playing in the beer garden at the festival shortly after 6 p.m. when Sampson strode past attendants and leapt onto the stage, police said. Sampson, of Mount Vernon, told police he ran down a hill of blackberry bushes and climbed over a barbed-wire fence to get into the festival, police said.
Clausen, 33, attempted to fend off the attacker with his guitar and suffered only minor injuries, according to police.
"Thankfully, I was leaning back and he missed," Clausen wrote on the band's Facebook page. "I tried to take him with my guitar and he ran."
The drummer, Scott Goodwin, told officers the attacker had been "armed with a yellow knife and a vicious look in his eyes."
Personally, I think this is decent song challenge material.