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

Bob Seger

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Beautiful Fall Reality
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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Friendship Home Past
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Respect Her Watches
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
I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by me.
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Capitol never People Unhappy
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.
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Honesty Looks Wall
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
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
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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Dancer Long Social Taboos
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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Bother Miscellaneous Want
I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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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
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
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
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.
BOB SEGER

Littles Simple Trying
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
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
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
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
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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Flames Lonely Love
Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
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Nails Now Special Then
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.
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Fashion Music Rocks Roll Soul
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Stuff Winter Writing
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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Tree Victory Watches
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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Long Song 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 really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
BOB SEGER

Long Sitting Song

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

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