Song two off the reissued One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels is just about perfect Bright Eyes. The claims that it is more, how you say, arranged is fair compared to the album as a whole but compared to say Casadegga? I don’t think so though the horn break is a stunning rococo classic touch.
And anyway, who cares? It seems to me that Conor is at the place in his life where every thing he touches is gold. He lives in a state of musical grace where there is an effortless beauty to his work. Here he breaks up the first line of the chorus into “i know you” and then “want to”.
A beautifully repressed folk song and you can interpret it as you will. The operative line, his point, is that the girl can’t sustain her dreams and especially her dreams of fidelity: “All these ideas of forever are just fundamentally wrong, you say that your love makes you honest then you’re caught with your hand in the till” he sings before his disbelief in the chorus ends it between them.