Elvis Perkins, While You Were Sleeping

[silvertopg]

Thanks so much for posting. Very moving song by Elvis Perkins. The poetry is so rich, raw and powerful. Poignantly appropriate for today.

[bumbawumbawumba]

at 1:23 my heart popped.

[SophiaLovella]

i had a dream i saw perkins playing this song at a venue i was at. he was dancing reaally goofy and so was i.i love this song because it reminds me of my dead best freind i want to make a song as beautiful as this one for him.

[Carena722]

this song is the work of a very active but zenful mind. it's gorgeous

[HumanAccount]

people slept on this motherfucker

[Fuseijitsu]

@1:23 epic.

[KillTheMKat]

beautiful

[zaphodbeeblerock]

My English is not good enough to understand all the lyrics, but my heart does and it is crying and laughing in the same moment and .... words are too weak to describe this ....

[rockininmilwaukee]

Very nice .

Oh Oh

[Gewuerzwiesel]

Much more better than Album version. Love it

[GungaDine]

our time´s Townes van Zandt.

[sequoia1979]

he is good but not even close to Townes.

[HumanAccount]

@sequoia1979 yeah..nobody fucks with townes except dylan

[DookNun]

@HumanAccount Man even Dylan doesn't have Townes. He's the absolute pinnacle!!!!!

[andersersand]

How so?

[guruofsnot]

Its all ego brother, can you do it with such beauty?

[bubbadosi]

wow he looks like john lennon in this vid

[BuddyWillis]

why did that get a thumbs down?

i thought the same thing heh

[liliapealia]

thanks so much for posting this.

[liliapealia]

"i made a death song for life, for my fathers ill widowed wife" after she died? this song? plumes of smoke?

[Psykopotato]

I made a death *suit* for life, for my fathers ill widowed wife".

He wrote the song about his mother, who died in a plane crash I think.

[Psykopotato]

Actually, now that I think about it and actually listened to the song again (It's been ages since I've listened to Perkins). His mother died in one of the planes hijacked during 9/11, didn't she?

Poor Perkins.. he's such a beautiful artist with such a sad history

[dancingirish]

i know the lyrics say *suit* but it really sounds like *song* here. if you watch his lips i really think he is saying song...but it really doesn't matter

[thisiskelevin]

I thought he wrote this song before his mom died ... songs 1-7 on Ash Wednesday were before that, and 8-11 (i think there are 11 ...) were after her death. That's what I thought at least

[BuddyWillis]

he changes it up ever so slightly sometimes

[melora72]

@dancingirish I wonder is if there is a reason he changed "suit" to "song"? Was it a mistake? Did he change it so it could be more easily understood? What is a "death suit" anyway? Funeral clothing? If this was written before 9/11, it must be about his father's death. (But that doesn't fit, there was no early morning phone call). That makes it all the more touching. His mother was on flight 11 so she could see Elvis perform. This could be one of the songs she would have heard.

[JeeberizeMeCaptain]

his imaginative lyrics are so underrated. really, i can think of very few artists today (especially very popular ones) who write so creatively and poetically. the depth of this song is so moving.

[MrSusanAndHisMirrors]

preach, brother, preach!

[TheSKeB]

@JeeberizeMeCaptain I whole-heartedly agree! Well said.

[HumanAccount]

@JeeberizeMeCaptain totally agree...besides neko case he is best modern lyricist

[nyxetera]

More goosebumps.... o_o Very beautiful.

Ash Wednesday is wonderful. ^_^

[jayloo]

This song might just kill me as I listen. Music stabs me in the heart, man.

[bonerbeagle]

his mom died in one of the planes on 9/11, this one is such a tearjerker and it reminds me of that day and just death in general

[saiphen]

amazing

cant stop listening

deff one of the best things ive heard in a while

[Anotherartist]

I totally agree

[JinzoCreed]

one of the best songs ever written

[jelhfly41]

it's the truth.

[71jenn]

Awesome performance.....but that trumpeter...AARRGGHH!!

[timlooney]

Thanks for posting this. What a great song. I love Elvis Perkins.