Back Story:

"This was one of the first songs I wrote both the music and lyrics to. Till this day I find the lyrics to this song some of the most moving and universally appealing. I was hugely into Evermore at the time who were just like Gravier, a band of brothers living in Australia writing soft rock love songs. Evermore even wrote a song called "Shooting Star" which was a direct influence in the writing of the title and the theme of the song, representing a love interest as a shooting star to me was just so poetic. I started writing the lyrics to this while down the south coast of NSW, Australia near Bateman's Bay where we frequented often as a family. Originally, it had completely different music as Samuel had noticed that part of the Chorus melody was similar to the first few notes of the Chorus melody of "Band On The Run", a song by Paul McCartney and Wings that I was heavily into at the time, and still am. Even though the whole song wasn't enough of a copy to have needed doing again, it kind of scared me thinking wow did I just accidentally plagiarise music just now and how do I stop this kind of thing from happening again? I had recalled coming up with the melody first, so from that point on I never composed final melodies directly but allowed them to come about based on the accumulation of layered instrumental and vocal parts featuring small segments of melody that would ultimately blend together to unify all the melodies together into the single final tune. My technique of incidentally composing melodies gave me the confidence that I would not accidentally rewrite tunes that were already in my head already, though of course there is always the risk for anybody to recreate something they were unaware of but there's not much anyone can do about that."
- Joel Dobbins

Lyrics:

The rare times I spend looking at the stars above
I realise how little time I have to find you, my love

Tell me where you are
Where is my shooting star
I want to find you and never
Never let you go
Go, go woah

I often wonder as I drive my car
Will I ever find my shooting star
When I see her how will I know
Will she simply look away and go
Oh

What if there's no one to find
Am I just wasting my time
Should I keep searching or go home
For the girl I may never know woah

Tell me where you are
Where is my shooting star
I want to find you and never
Never let you go
Go, go

These thoughts keep coming back to me
I wish these questions would just let me be
Why has she always been so far from sight
My heart is my only source of light

Tell me where you are
Where is my shooting star
I want to find you and never
Never let you go
Go, go

All though I'm sure I've never met you
But it's like I already do
In my dreams at least before
I swear I've laid my eyes on you
You

Where is my shooting star

Tell me where you are
Where is my shooting star
I want to find you and never
Never let you go
Go woah
Oh

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HP Pavilion A1240A Desktop PC

Cubase SX 1.03

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