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You 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 Seger

I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
BOB SEGER

Names Pain Work
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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Book Captains Heroic
I 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.
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Song Thinking Writing
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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Play Summer Winter
I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.
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Home Kids Opportunity
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Beautiful Fall Reality
Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
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High Junior Juniors Way
I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don’t know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.
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People Want Should
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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Tree Victory Watches
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
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Compliment Faces Saws
Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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Remember Sex Wonderful
Deep in my soul, I’ve been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I’ve longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I’ll keep searching after today.
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Lonely Sadness Soul
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Common Evil Fire
If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you’re not really needed by your family, but you’re there. And my kids like to know I’m there.
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Golf Kids Play
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGER

Stuff Winter Writing
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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Family Life Love
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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Bother Miscellaneous Want
I’m older now but still running against the wind
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Running Stills Wind
I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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Littles Simple Trying
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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Gone Sun Wind
I’d rather make music than tour.
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Long Make Music Tour
Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
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Bops Dancing Down
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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Home Philosophy Sea
The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
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Boring Neck Night Play Sing Two
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Respect Her Watches
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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Echoes Lying Music Rock Roll
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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Fragmented Radio Unbelievable

You 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.

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You 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.

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