I saw a big star running from me, a world from a record on my bed.
Turn the tables on me, what would happen if I fell to the tune of a dreamer,
to the tune of my heart?
A big start running from me, I saw a world out sunning on my head.
Turn the tables on me now. I would fall from heaven and ring your bell.
Baby, catch me in the middle of a lie.
The boys are out tonight, yeah the boys are out tonight.
The big shots singin' from me, I saw a world out sunning on my head.
Pity my heart signals: center of a storm inside my head.
Center of my heart, center of my out of time simple mind.
From the moon out my window a wink and a blink and a nod.
Had a wish on a start but now it's falling.
The boys are out tonight, big skies above me signal in my horoscope it said:
never heed a caution, never fought a lover,
never cross a street alone in the middle of a signal red,
middle of a drinker's heart, middle of a big parade, a signal in my horoscope.

She was aware of her insecurities as she took the stage
She was convinced if she got up there that she'd be discovered someday
So she belted it, she hit the high notes fearlessly
Oh she melted them as she brought them to their feet

She was a big star at Banana Joe's bar
Where she sang karaoke every night
She said, If you work hard to get where you are,
It feels good in the hot spotlight
She was a big star

She made the local cable shows where the camera fell in love with her face
After a couple of weekends the groupies were crawlin' all over the place
She signed autographs like she was Garth Brooks in a skirt
And in the aftermath, that small time town was hers

She was a big star at Banana Joe's bar
Where she sang karaoke every night
She said, If you work hard to get where you are,
It feels good in the hot spotlight
She was a big star

She doesn't care anymore that her high school girlfriends cut her down
The only thought she entertains where they are and where she is now

Her old neighbors swear they're certain she slept her way to the top
She knows you don't get where you're going
Unless you've got something they ain't got

So she sings tonight to twenty-thousand plus
And the young girls scream out loud, Man that could be us
She's a big star and she eats caviar just before she performs every night
She says, If you work hard to get where you are,
It feels good in the hot spotlight
She's a big star
She's a big star

I work at the Big Star on old 405
I make 6 bucks an hour
And I work steady nights
Well it might not be much
but it's all that I need
In that little glass booth
in that highway to dreams

I was not that good of a student at school
But this life taught me lessons
that made me no fool
Oh my mom and dad raised me
by that golden rule
In a world that gets ruthless
a world that gets cruel

Fill'er up
let me check your oil sir
Cash or card
let me get your change
Just turn right
when you see that big church sign
Just go straight
and you'll be on your way

I had me a girl once
and my ring she wore
But her father said she
could not see me no more
Oh I know it'd be different
if I weren't so poor
So I'm writing these songs
trying to open some doors

Well that's enough crying
over used to be's
Got to write these songs
get that girl back to me
I'm a man with conviction
I've got things to do
When that sun starts a rising
Oh, when that sun starts a rising
my night shifts are through
I work at the big star on ol' 405

now that i'm a big star what am i gonna do i'm so bored countin' all
my money. i sit here and i think of you and it's so easy to do i
don't even have to try why should i waste my precious time cuz i
can't make you love me, but
i know you will. i'm such an @$$hole, how could
you resist. i never
meant to let it go to
my head i never thought it
would come to this it's me.
the @$$hole of you're dreams
and i don't even have to try,
don't even wanna try why should i
waste my precious time if i can't
make you love me, but i know you
do... i'm so cool, no one wants to
talk to me and i'm so cool no one
wants to look at me and i'm so
fuckin' cool, nobody cares at all. i'm a
big big %#&$!^ star.

I work at the Big Star on old 405
I make 6 bucks an hour
And I work steady nights
Well it might not be much
but it's all that I need
In that little glass booth
in that highway to dreams

I was not that good of a student at school
But this life taught me lessons
that made me no fool
Oh my mom and dad raised me
by that golden rule
In a world that gets ruthless
a world that gets cruel

Fill'er up
let me check your oil sir
Cash or card
let me get your change
Just turn right
when you see that big church sign
Just go straight
and you'll be on your way

I had me a girl once
and my ring she wore
But her father said she
could not see me no more
Oh I know it'd be different
if I weren't so poor
So I'm writing these songs
trying to open some doors

Well that's enough crying
over used to be's
Got to write these songs
get that girl back to me
I'm a man with conviction
I've got things to do
When that sun starts a rising
Oh, when that sun starts a rising
my night shifts are through
I work at the big star on ol' 405