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The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

Bob Seger

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
BOB SEGER

Quarterback String Track
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
BOB SEGER

Play Summer Winter
It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
BOB SEGER

Reality Tonight Yesterday
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 SEGER

Moving Mysteries Night Past
Make a destination of the greater truth.
BOB SEGER

Adages Destination Greater
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
BOB SEGER

Dancer Long Social Taboos
Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
BOB SEGER

Bops Dancing Down
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
BOB SEGER

Expression Knows Wish
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
BOB SEGER

Respect Her Watches
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
BOB SEGER

Book Captains Heroic
Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
BOB SEGER

Remember Sex Wonderful
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.
BOB SEGER

Lines Music Playing Singing
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
BOB SEGER

Compliment Faces Saws
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.
BOB SEGER

Golf Kids Play
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
BOB SEGER

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

Names Pain Work
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
BOB SEGER

Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
BOB SEGER

Family Life Love
Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I’m old fashion, say I’m over the hill. Today’s music ain’t got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.
BOB SEGER

Fashion Music Rocks Roll Soul
It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn’t until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.
BOB SEGER

Recording Tour Two Writing Years
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
BOB SEGER

Cliche Men Sometimes
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.
BOB SEGER

People Want Should
My management tells me, Don’t be optimistic, because it’s the young people’s world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you’re a classic rocker. I don’t know if you’re gonna get the play.
BOB SEGER

Optimistic People Play
The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
BOB SEGER

Friendship Home Past
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.
BOB SEGER

Lonely Sadness Soul
I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
BOB SEGER

Long Sitting Song
Stood 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 SEGER

Mountain Philosophy Soul

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

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The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

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