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Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.

Bob Seger

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
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGER

Stuff Winter Writing
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.
BOB SEGER

Song Thinking Writing
I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that’s why I’ve never done a session where I don’t sing live.
BOB SEGER

Done People Table
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
BOB SEGER

Home Philosophy Sea
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
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
BOB SEGER

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

Names Pain Work
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
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
BOB SEGER

Beautiful Fall Reality
It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
BOB SEGER

Reality Tonight Yesterday
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.
BOB SEGER

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

Book Captains Heroic
Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
BOB SEGER

Nails Now Special Then
Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
BOB SEGER

Remember Sex Wonderful
When you’re in a relationship, you’re always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
BOB SEGER

Boxing Relationship Wedding
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
BOB SEGER

Play Summer Winter
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
BOB SEGER

Gone Sun Wind
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
BOB SEGER

Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
Make a destination of the greater truth.
BOB SEGER

Adages Destination Greater
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
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
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
BOB SEGER

Long Song Writing
And 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 SEGER

Honesty Looks Wall
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
BOB SEGER

Common Evil Fire
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
BOB SEGER

Art Home Night

Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.

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Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.

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