Hey, Soul Sister
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Hey, Soul Sister Lyrics
Hey, hey, hey
[Verse 1]
Your lipstick stains
On the front lobe of my left-side brains
I knew I wouldn't forget you
And so I went and let you blow my mind
Your sweet moonbeam
The smell of you in every single dream I dream
I knew when we collided
You're the one I have decided who's one of my kind
[Chorus]
Hey, soul sister
Ain't that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo?
The way you move ain't fair, you know
Hey, soul sister
I don't want to miss a single thing you do
Tonight
[Post-Chorus]
Hey, hey, hey
[Verse 2]
Just in time
I'm so glad you have a one-track mind like me
You gave my life direction
A game show love connection we can't deny
I'm so obsessed
My heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest
I believe in you, like a virgin, you're Madonna
And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind
Hey, soul sister
Ain't that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo?
The way you move ain't fair, you know
Hey, soul sister
I don't want to miss a single thing you do
Tonight
[Bridge]
The way you can cut a rug
Watching you's the only drug I need
So gangster, I'm so thug
You're the only one I'm dreaming of, you see
I can be myself now, finally
In fact, there's nothing I can't be
I want the world to see you be, with me
[Chorus]
Hey, soul sister
Ain't that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo?
The way you move ain't fair, you know
Hey, soul sister
I don't want to miss a single thing you do tonight
Hey, soul sister
I don't want to miss a single thing you do
Tonight
Hey, hey, hey
Tonight
Hey, hey, hey
Tonight
About
Train’s first single from their 2009 comeback album Save Me, San Francisco. A ukelele and soulful based beat made it their biggest hit and the best selling single of 2009.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
The story lyrically, I’ve heard Pat talk about this in interviews. He’s always heard of Burning Man. Somewhere in Reno Nevada’s desert, they do it every year. It’s this whole city in the desert that gets built for a festival that happens every year. They build a huge man out of wood and at the end of the festival they burn it. Pat had never been to Burning Man, but he had an image in his head of what it must be like. All these beautiful women dancing around the fire. That was the imagery he conjured up when he was writing the lyrics to, “Hey, Soul Sister.” It’s a pretty big deal. Thousands and thousands of people go to it every year. People run around naked and I guess it’s a total crazy deal.
— Jimmy Stafford
About the creation of the song:
I said, ‘I want to write an INXS-y song. So, they started playing kind of an INXS-y song, and I wrote the song 'Hey, Soul Sister’ to it and the melodies and started to sing it. And I said, ‘Man, this just doesn’t sound great to me.’
“One of the guys, Espen, who’s like a huge star in Norway, picked up a ukulele, and said, ‘Hey, how about this?’ I said, ‘Are you (kidding) me?’ And it made the difference. It made my words dance. It made sense. These words were meant to dance with ukulele and not guitar.
— Pat Monahan
- 2.Hey, Soul Sister
- 3.I Got You
- 4.Parachute
- 6.If It’s Love
- 8.Words
- 10.Breakfast In Bed
- 11.Marry Me
- 13.Half Moon Bay
- 14.The Finish Line
- 15.Umbrella
