Mountain Goats - New Star Song

from mike + howard F .

capo 1 ( this is just one of the ways i figured out from the album , you can capo it lots
of places and it can be different live , im guessing john’s tuned down a step or
something on the album . . )
can also just do capo 3 and drop all the chords a full step , i play that sometimes too . .

A F#m D A

F#m D A F#m
i hung pictures of you from every lamp post in town
D A F#m D
as the humidity climbed into numbers i don’t care to repeat
A F#m
the air was heavy and the sky was alive
D A E
and the pacific starlight train wasn’t due in till 11 . 45

E A
i thought about how cold you must be
E A
i thought about things i thought that i’d soon be forgetting
E A D
i thought of you up in canada as the lightning storm lit up
A F#m
all downtown redding

D A F#m
there were teenagers in mini – trucks coming around every corner
D A F#m
you can taste the adrenaline , coming out through their skin
D A
i came to the well – lit doorway of a sheet music store
F#m D A
E
saw my face in the glass . sat down in the doorway and i settled in .

[ chorus ]