Lyrics to
Shooting Star

This version of Shooting Star was released by Lou Reed in 1978.

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All the people had their share of the glory
looking out after you
It’s just a story about winners and glory
and you know that it’s true

Ah ha, oh yeah, you’re just a shooting star
Ah ha, oh yeah, you’re just a shooting star

Some men may glory from a different condition
of another car
And later persuasion would permit the arranging
of a …
And to cause more confusion, and to make this illusion
would have gone too far
And it’s my ambition, of a jacket ignition
in a Cadillac metal car

Ah ha, oh yeah, you’re just a shooting star
Ah ha, oh yeah, you’re just a shooting star
Ah ha, oh yeah, you’re just a shooting star
Ah ha, oh yeah, you’re just a shooting star

You’re just a shooting star

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About Lyrics and Shooting Star by Lou Reed

When you decide to study the lyrics to Shooting Star, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Lou Reed. Some of the lyrics to Shooting Star have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Lou Reed and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Shooting Star if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Shooting Star" means the words set to the music of Shooting Star, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lou Reed. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Shooting Star and the lyrics to Shooting Star are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lou Reed who came here looking just for the lyrics to Shooting Star, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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