New Star Song

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

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

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