"New Star Song" lyrics - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

I hung pictures of you from every lamp post in town
As the humidity climbed into numbers
I don't care to repeat
The air was heavy and the sky was alive
And the Pacific Starlight train wasn't due in till 11:45

[Chorus:]
I thought about how cold you must be
I thought about things
I thought that I'd soon be forgetting
I thought of you up in Canada
As the lightning storm lit up
All downtown Redding

There were teenagers in mini-trucks
Coming around every corner
You can taste the adrenaline
Coming out through their skin
I came to the well-lit doorway
Of a sheet music store
Saw my face in the glass
Sat down in the doorway and I settled in

[Chorus:]
I thought about how cold you must be
I thought about things
I thought that I'd soon be forgetting
I thought of you up in Canada
As the lightning storm lit up
All downtown Redding