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Dead Letter

from Hurry Up and Wait by Soul Asylum

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    This one-year anniversary limited edition Soul Asylum cassette features a standard J-card and gold metallic cassette shell, and is limited to only 500 copies. All orders will include a Soul Asylum pencil as an added bonus. Shout out to those who remember why a pencil comes in handy with your cassette collection.

    Soul Asylum vocalist and guitarist Dave Pirner, says that making their twelfth studio full-length, Hurry Up And Wait, was a completely seamless, enjoyable, and productive experience. The album was co-produced with John Fields—and recorded at Minneapolis’ Nicollet Studios, the same place where the celebrated rock band recorded seminal early albums released on Twin/Tone Records—the album reflects Soul Asylum’s usual eclectic approach.

    Lyrically, songs dive into topics such as grappling with emotional and geographic disconnection, navigating romantic ebbs and flows, and the power of embracing optimism despite it all. Sonically, Hurry Up And Wait features thrashing songs indebted to punk (“Hopped Up Feelin’”) and classic rock (“Got It Pretty Good”), folk-influenced pop-rock (“Silly Things”), and gorgeous jangle-pop (lead single “If I Told You.”)

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lyrics

Dead Letter, dead Letter
Of immaculate intention
It’s written in blood
That flows through the pen tip

Dead letter, dead letter
Never to deliver
The message of love
I wanted to give her

She sent a dead letter
To the book on the shelf
She revealed some secrets
She didn’t want to tell
She died on the day
That her baby was born
And the dead letter rests
In the used bookstore

Dead letter, dead letter
Addressed straight to hell
It’s written to someone
It’s written quite well

Dead letter, dead letter
Would never be read
Oh, I’ll write you a letter
As long as it’s dead

There was no response
And they thought they had lost him
From drugging and drinking cough syrup
When the caught up with him
He just sat on the floor
In a pile of dead letters
He just couldn’t finish

Dead letter, dead letter
Addressed to you
It says that I’m sorry
Explains the whole truth
For I sent it to you
So long ago
I thought that you got it
I just didn’t know

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from Hurry Up and Wait, released April 17, 2020

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Soul Asylum Los Angeles, California

Soul Asylum is vocalist/guitarist Dave Pirner, drummer Michael Bland, lead guitarist Ryan Smith and bassist Winston Roye. In 2020, the quartet released Hurry Up And Wait, landing the band their highest Billboard Chart positional since 1995. HUAW reflects Soul Asylum's usual eclectic approach: thrashing songs indebted to punk and classic rock, folk-influenced pop-rock, and gorgeous jangle-pop. ... more

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