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]