Always Crashing in the Same Car Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jimmymike 

Cover art for Always Crashing in the Same Car lyrics by David Bowie

It looks as if he's talking about his heroin addiction ("Those kilo(meters)"), his sexual exploits ("and the red lights"), the paranoia he eventually - albiet momentarily - succumbed to ("I was looking left and right"), and commenting that while he wanted to stop, he was always "crashing in the same car", or repeating his mistakes (further strengthened by "I was going round and round the hotel garage").