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Bob Seger

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
BOB SEGER

Challenges Trying Writing
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
BOB SEGER

Home Philosophy Sea
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
BOB SEGER

Play Summer Winter
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Common Evil Fire
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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Expression Knows Wish
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
BOB SEGER

Dancer Long Social Taboos
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Stuff Winter Writing
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Respect Her Watches
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
I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
BOB SEGER

Names Pain Work
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
BOB SEGER

Tree Victory Watches
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
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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Gone Sun Wind
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
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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Art Home Night
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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Quarterback String Track
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
I’m older now but still running against the wind
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Running Stills Wind
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’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
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Beautiful Fall Reality
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.
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Boxing Relationship Wedding
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
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.
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Mountain Philosophy Soul
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
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
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

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