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And then there is "Can't Hardly Wait." More than almost any other song I've heard, it leaves you with a heightened sense of what tomorrow might bring, a sense that is both unbearably exciting and unbearably sad. It is, like so many Replacements songs, something that you can sit with in the grey light of another late night/early morning. "Write you a letter tomorrow / tonight I can't hold a pen," Westerberg sings, and as he does he conjures a world of possibilities and dissolute glamor, distilling the early potential of love and life's ability to continue surprising us while still providing us with places to drink and get high. Human lives are both hopeful and hopeless and The Replacements incarnated that and put it into their music.I could go on, but I've gone on long enough, so I'll end with Bob Mehr, author of the forthcoming Replacements biography Trouble Boys, who told me this:"In the end I think the bigger goal, the goal they actually achieved, was to be remembered. I once read Civil War author Allan Gurganus describe the idea of the romantic 'lost cause.' He said it's about attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure and gaining admiration for the performance. In a weird way, I think that holds true for the Replacements as well."Write me a letter tomorrow. Tonight, I can't hold a pen.Follow Oscar on Twitter.