All these beautiful women dancing around the fire. Pat had never been to Burning Man, but he had an image in his head of what it must be like. They build a huge man out of wood and at the end of the festival they burn it. It’s this whole city in the desert that gets built for a festival that happens every year.

Somewhere in Reno Nevada's desert, they do it every year. The story lyrically, I’ve heard Pat talk about this in interviews. Lyrically, Stafford admitted the inspiration for the song came about while Monahan was imagining what Burning Man must be like, and started penning lyrics inspired by the imagery he saw: The song's chord structure is arranged in an A B A B A B A form. The song is characterized by a signature pattern played on a ukulele, that follows a basic E 5 – B – C#m – A (I 5 – V – vi – IV) progression in the verse, tag and bridge, switching to an A – B – E 5 – B (IV – V – I 5 – V) progression in the chorus. Written in the key of E major, the beat is set in common time and composed in a tempo of 97 bpm. 'Hey, Soul Sister' is a mid-tempo pop rock song. Pat Monahan, on the band's return to its folk rock roots It's kind of us going backward so we can go forward. There's super catchy riffs and melodies in it, which I think are way more important that any production trick or great-sounding vocal production.

The song was not eligible for any Grammy Award in the General Field. The live iTunes version of 'Hey, Soul Sister' garnered a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. The single received a 6× platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on September 21, 2012, signifying sales of over 6 million copies. It is also the band's most commercially successful single to date, reaching number one in 16 countries. It was the top-selling song on the iTunes Store in 2010, and the second overall best-selling song in the US in 2010.

The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and is Train's highest-charting song to date. It was released as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album, Save Me, San Francisco (2009). It was written by lead singer Pat Monahan, Amund Bjørklund, and Espen Lind. ' Hey, Soul Sister' is a song by American rock band Train.

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