We Can Get Together

The Hold Steady

Very hard to pick a favorite HOLD STEADY record because they’re all exciting to me — especially the swagger of those early story songs from ALMOST KILLED ME, SEPARATION SUNDAY and BOYS AND GIRLS IN AMERICA. But today, even as Craig Finn’s great new solo record A LEGACY OF RENTALS drops, I found myself drawn to play HEAVEN IS WHENEVER. And this track just kills me — heaven for the college kid I once was. So love the final chorus that takes us out. And the number of great “heaven” songs Craig Finn name drops? 😁 Songs by PAVEMENT, MEATLOAF, PSYCHEDELIC FURS and even the great Sarah Records band HEAVENLY gets a verse.

She played Heaven Isn't Happening.
She played Heaven Is A Truck.
She said Heavenly was cool.
I think they were from Oxford.
I only had one single.
It was a song about a pure and simple love.

There's a girl on heaven hill.
I come up to her cabin still.
She said Husker Du got huge.
But they started in St. Paul.
Do you remember Makes No Sense At All?

Heaven is the whole of the heart.
Paradise is by the dashboard light.
Utopia is a band.
They sang Love is the Answer.
I think they're probably right.

Let it shine down on us all.
Let it warm us from within.
He wasn't just the drummer.
He was the singer's younger brother.
I still spin that single.
But it don't sound that simple.

Let it shine down on us all.
Let it warm us from within.
He wasn't just the drummer.
He was someone's little brother.
I still spin that single.
But it don't sound that simple anymore.

Heaven is whenever we can get together.
Sit down on your floor.
And listen to your records.

Heaven is whenever we can get together.
Lock your bedroom door.
And listen to your records