Someday I Will Treat You Good

Mark Linkous wrote "Someday I Will Treat You Good", track 14 of the debut, 3:42, recorded at Sound of Music in Richmond with David Lowery producing as David Charles. It was released as a single on February 5, 1996 backed with "Rainmaker" and reached 35 on the US modern rock chart. The song is older than the album: Wikipedia says it was the one song that survived from his earlier bands to be played by Sparklehorse, and Spin, in a summary we could not open, says it and "Maria's Little Elbows" were rescued from a discarded pile of Salt Chunk Mary songs. A blog notes a Salt Chunk Mary demo from about 1992 or 1993.

A PopMatters review of a late August 2007 show at the Empty Bottle in Chicago lists it in the set. We found no statement from Linkous on its meaning, and a description of the video is only a search snippet, so we do not repeat it. We have no setlist.fm count and found no covers or samples.