Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy. Workin’ on mysteries without any clues, workin’ on our night moves.
BOB SEGEROut past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy. Workin’ on mysteries without any clues, workin’ on our night moves.
BOB SEGERUp with the sun. Gone with the wind.
BOB SEGERThey do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
BOB SEGEROne victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
BOB SEGERI write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGERStood alone on a mountain top, starin’ out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’ and my soul began to rise.
BOB SEGERLater in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
BOB SEGERI write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
BOB SEGERSometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
BOB SEGERI’m older now but still running against the wind
BOB SEGERTell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
BOB SEGERAnd you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
BOB SEGERAnd just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can’t help smiling, it’s you.
BOB SEGERYou go to LA, or you go to New York, and it’s really fun to go there. But they’re not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It’s too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it’s distracting to me.
BOB SEGERWith only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
BOB SEGEREvery now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
BOB SEGER