[Verse 1]
I hung pictures of you from every lamppost 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 storms lit up all downtown Redding
[Verse 2]
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 storms lit up all downtown Redding
New Star Song was written by John Darnielle.
New Star Song was produced by John Darnielle.
The Mountain Goats released New Star Song on Mon Mar 21 1994.
John Darnielle before playing this song at Cow Haus in Tallahassee, FL on February 6, 1998:
It’s actually based on genuine experience, except for the ‘you’ being addressed in the song – there was no ‘you’, right. But I really did spend, uh, a good fourteen hours up in, uh, far northern California a...