Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man

"But on the back deck, you admit that you haven't felt much like laughing lately anyway. And so I say, 'That could change.' "

Although the title hints at amateur songwriting, the song is not so. The lines meet the Bright Eyes standard of beautiful, while having an atypical conversational feel. Below is a link to three live versions of Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man, two sounding the same, but one of the two being of video.

Michael Huff, a good friend, mentioned the other day that a sign of a great songwriter is when they forget their own lyrics while performing. This same sign is evident in the version recorded in a basement, where Oberst gets lost in the second-to lost stanza. The visual version can be found in the special features on the Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek DVD, and this song was originally released on a 7" record from Blood of the Young, entitled "Motion Sickness" (hopefully that name for a Bright Eyes release sounds familiar to you).

Bright Eyes - Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man

- Spend An Evening With Saddle Creek DVD
- Motion Sickness 7"