Harry Chapin – Shooting Star

Livin' with my eyes closed, goin' day to day
I never knew the difference, I never cared either way
Lookin' for a reason, searchin' for a sign
Reachin' out with both hands, I gotta feel the kick inside
All fired up
Now I believe there comes a time
All fired up
When everything just falls in line
All fired up
We live an' learn from our mistakes
All fired up, fired up, fired up, hey

Ain't nobody livin', in a perfect world
Everybody's out there, cryin' to be heard
Now I got a new fire, burnin' in my eyes
Lightin' up the darkness, movin' like a meteorite

All fired up
Now I believe there comes a time
All fired up
When everything just falls in line
All fired up
We live an' learn from our mistakes
All fired up, fired up, fired up
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith

Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe

All fired up
Now I believe there comes a time
All fired up
When everything just falls in line
All fired up
We live an' learn from our mistakes
All fired up, fired up, fired up
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith


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"Shooting Star" as written by Myron Grombacher Kerryn Tolhurst

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    General CommentThis is one of the most beautifully written songs that I have ever come across.
    plouck22on January 23, 2007   Link
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    General CommentBeautiful song, maybe "gentler" than A BETTER PLACE TO BE.
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    I was just listening again casually, and the thought of him being drugs "popped" into my mind.
    harry923on November 17, 2016   Link
  • 0
    General CommentThis song is about Harry's grandparents. What about I can't remember. But the performance by Pat Benatar at the 1987 tribute concert (On CD) is also amazing.
    Armoon May 06, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Commentwas my favorite of his growing up (i grew up with only GMC)...shooting star was my song and the rock was my brother's
    ltienkeon November 14, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General CommentThis song makes me think of Flowers For Algernon, don't know why
    iawindtalkeron June 18, 2009   Link
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    General CommentThere are a few songs I never get tired of listening to, this is one of them....but then thats true for most of Harry's stuff....
    sysiphuscorinthon April 17, 2011   Link
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    General CommentIt sounds like a wife whose genius husband is suffering from Dementia or Alzheimers. A brilliant man whose vision went beyond the conventional, while she kept him grounded in reality. He was the sun - shining bright, and she was the moon, reflecting his light back to earth.

    Towards the end, his mind failed... but he always loved her as the one real thing in his life. And she watched him fade away, but she always saw the man she'd fallen in love with.
    phileauxon January 21, 2014   Link
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    General CommentOthers have said the song was about HC relationship with his wife Sandy, he was the out of touch male character and she was the grounded support he could always depend on ..."he could not make things possible but she could make them holy".

    That also holds true with the middle verse reference to their family life..."She gave him a daughter and she gave him a son..." as this song was written around the time his two youngest children were born (Jen & Josh - their first 3 children were actually Sandy's from her first marriage, which HC adopted and raised after their marriage).

    I the end the male finally sees that the one thing that isn't a dream or a adventure that in fact is real is her love for him, and he stays with her.
    FlairFan01on January 08, 2015   Link

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