{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Fleeting Days | type = Album | artist = Dan Bern & The IJBC | cover = danbernfleetingdays.jpg | alt = | released = March 4, 2003 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Folk rock | length = 44:57 | label = Messenger Records | producer = | prev_title = The Swastika EP | prev_year = 2002 | next_title = My Country II | next_year = 2004 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r630669}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev2score = B<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/2003/05/09/swastika-ep-fleeting-days/|title=The Swastika E.P., Fleeting Days|author=Will Hermes|website=Ew.com|access-date=23 December 2021}}</ref> | rev3 = Robert Christgau | rev3score = {{rating-Christgau|hm1}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=11898|title=Robert Christgau: Album: Dan Bern & the IJBC: Fleeting Days|website=Robertchristgau.com|access-date=23 December 2021}}</ref> | noprose=yes }}

'''''Fleeting Days''''' is a 2003 folk rock album by Dan Bern and the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy. While much of Bern's music is heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, and "Bern sings like he's making fun of Dylan even when he isn't",<ref>{{Cite news |title=TWAS 431: Bleu, Dan Bern, Chris Whitley |url=https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0431 |access-date=2024-09-04}}</ref> ''Fleeting Days'' is also influenced by the style of Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} Its songs are more modest and toned down compared to earlier albums, but Dan Bern's quirky lyrics and imagery remain.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

==Track listing== #"Baby Bye Bye" – 3:06 #"Eva" – 3:46 #"Superman" – 3:58 #"Closer to You" – 7:00 #"I Need You" – 4:16 #"Chain Around My Neck" – 2:32 #"Jane" – 2:36 #"Crow" – 2:31 #"Don't Make Me Leave" – 3:43 #"City" – 3:38 #"Fly Away" – 6:46 #"Graceland" – 5:00 #"Soul" – 4:25

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Category:2003 albums Category:Dan Bern albums Category:Messenger Records albums