gilling

Bright Eyes was a huge revelation for me as a boy; hearing Conor Oberst, who can't sing but does anyways, and the emotion he wrought in his songs from such a young age, made me feel like anything was possible. "You Will..." is a song that feels like it's playing on an old turntable until the coda, when the whole band turns up and it feels like the carnival of life is just beginning. Such a curious song, really, because it's definitely about the end of an important and beautiful relationship, but it has a few conflicting kernels of hope at its core: hope that there will be other relationships, hope that there won't have to be, and hope that you can stay true to yourself in any case.