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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

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

Tree Victory Watches
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
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
BOB SEGER

Common Evil Fire
When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
BOB SEGER

Forget Kids Thinking
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
BOB SEGER

Long Song Writing
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
BOB SEGER

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

Challenges Trying Writing
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
Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
BOB SEGER

High Junior Juniors Way
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

Choices Country Fun
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
Make a destination of the greater truth.
BOB SEGER

Adages Destination Greater
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
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

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