Elvis Perkins - While You were Sleeping

I spoke to this man last night.

0:34 looks like he's wearing the glasses from the Transformers movie

I just noticed that this version of the song is about 2 minutes shorter than the one on the album. In fact, at the 1:58 mark it skips over one of the best stanzas of the entire song. It's too bad since the buildup of the album song really attributes to its beauty which you don't you get with this version.

such a beautiful song, really touching, i cant stop listening to it lately..

Sooo saad );

such a ridiculously good song. probably listen to this 5 times every day.

Great song!

I can see why he gets compared to Jeff Mangum so much, but he sounds more like the equally talented Leonard Cohen to me.

I think Paul Baribeau sounds more like Jeff vocally, though.... but Paul doesn't use all the crazy instruments.

i thought the NMH parallels were so strong particularl near the end of the song that perhaps it was an intentional homage? The introduction of the horn and the singing saw + themes like
"thank god you're up now/
let's stay that way"
dude. NMH.