Just one taste and you'll know what you gotta do   Say goodbye to a new career you ain't going back to school   You've got nothing to fall back on   Just yer torn up parents jeans   You've gotta keep it all together   While you're splitting at the seams   (at the seams)      [Chorus:]   The life of a shooting star    The life of a shooting star   Rising up from a skid row bar   Getting drunk off the cover charge   Rising fast and crashing hard like shooting stars      You've got blurry vision so you're aiming for the world   It's the only thing you know, you take a shot on rock'n'roll   You've got nothing to fall back on   Broken homes on a dead-end street   You've gotta keep those people coming to hear you scream   (to hear you scream)      [Rep't chorus]      Do you know what you are?   Do you know what you are?   You're a shooting star etc.      [Rep't chorus to end]