Train - Hey, Soul Sister

Guitarist Jimmy Stafford told music writer Annie Reuter the original inspiration for the lyrics: "Pat wrote that with a couple other guys. The story lyrically, I've heard Pat talk about this in interviews. He's always heard of Burning Man. Somewhere in the Californian desert (it's actually in Nevada), 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."