The song was released as the B-side of "Success" in October 1977, but failed to chart. RCA Records issued Lust for Life on September 9, 1977, with "The Passenger" as the fourth track on side one of the original LP, between "Some Weird Sin" and " Tonight". Reviewers characterize the track as garage rock and proto-punk. Tom Maginnis of AllMusic described the music as a "laid-back . Biographer Paul Trynka states that the song was "a simple celebration of life", of the "long walks" Pop would take growing up and his own reputation at the time. I didn't have a driver's licence or a vehicle". In an interview with The Guardian in 2016, Pop said "The Passenger" was partly inspired by touring with David Bowie: "I'd been riding around North America and Europe in David's car ad infinitum. The lyrics have been interpreted as "Iggy's knowing commentary on Bowie's cultural vampirism". They were inspired by a Jim Morrison poem, titled "The Lords", that saw "modern life as a journey by car", as well as rides on the Berlin S-Bahn, according to Pop's former girlfriend Esther Friedmann. Similar to other tracks on Lust for Life, the lyrics for "The Passenger" were mostly composed on the spot in the studio. Bowie, Pop, and producer-engineer Colin Thurston produced Lust for Life under the pseudonym "Bewlay Bros.", named after the final track on Bowie's 1971 album Hunky Dory.
The lineup consisted of Pop, Gardiner, David Bowie on piano, Carlos Alomar on guitar, and brothers Tony and Hunt Sales on bass and drums, respectively.
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Gardiner thought of the riff in early 1977 as he was wandering throughout the countryside, "in the field beside an orchard, on one of those glorious spring days with the trees in full blossom." The song was recorded at Hansa Studio by the Wall in West Berlin between May and June 1977. Singing."The Passenger" was co-written by Iggy Pop and guitarist Ricky Gardiner the former wrote the lyrics while the latter composed the music.
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Oh, the passenger He rides and he rides He sees things from under glass He looks through his windows eye He sees the things he knows are his He sees the bright and hollow sky He sees the city asleep at night He sees the stars are out tonight And all of it is yours and mine And all of it is yours and mine Oh, lets ride and ride and ride and ride.
I am the passenger And I ride and I ride I ride through the citys backside I see the stars come out of the sky Yeah, theyre bright in a hollow sky You know it looks so good tonight I am the passenger I stay under glass I look through my window so bright I see the stars come out tonight I see the bright and hollow sky Over the citys a rip in the sky And everything looks good tonight Singin la la la la la-la-la la La la la la la-la-la la La la la la la-la-la la la-la Get into the car Well be the passenger Well ride through the city tonight See the citys ripped insides Well see the bright and hollow sky Well see the stars that shine so bright The sky was made for us tonight Oh the passenger How how he rides Oh the passenger He rides and he rides He looks through his window What does he see? He sees the bright and hollow sky He see the stars come out tonight He sees the citys ripped backsides He sees the winding ocean drive And everything was made for you and me All of it was made for you and me cause it just belongs to you and me So lets take a ride and see whats mine Singing.
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