The Crystal Lake

"The Crystal Lake"
Single by Grandaddy
from the album The Sophtware Slump
A-side	The Crystal Lake
B-side	Our Dying Brains
Released	May 29, 2000
Format	CD, vinyl
Genre	Indie rock
Label	V2
Writer(s)	Jason Lytle
Producer	Jason Lytle
Grandaddy singles chronology
"Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland" (2000) "The Crystal Lake" (2000) "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot." (2000)

"The Crystal Lake" is a single by American indie rock band Grandaddy from their second album, The Sophtware Slump, released on May 29, 2000. It peaked at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was re-released in several formats in early 2001.

The song was listed as the 295th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media.

Jason Lytle described the song as "that age-old story, repeated many times in country music, of the wayward soul who leaves a small town with hopes and dreams of the unknown and winds up full of regret in some horrible little apartment in an unfriendly city".

Track listings

CD

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Crystal Lake"
2.	"Our Dying Brains"
3.	"First Movement/Message Send: ID#5646766"

7"

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Crystal Lake"
2.	"Our Dying Brains"

CD1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Crystal Lake"
2.	"Moe Bandy Mountaineers"
3.	"She-Deleter"

CD2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Crystal Lake"
2.	"What Can't Be Erased"
3.	"I Don't Want to Record Anymore"

7"

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Crystal Lake"
2.	"Rode My Bike to My Sister's Wedding"