Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
Like the wind that carried Ahab
To a far more distant shore
To a shipwreck that was certain
Long before
I can see there's no use sailing
Among ships I've known before
It will only bring me more
And more and more

[Chorus]
Lonely sailing nights
More racing, dimming lights
Lonely nights
And all too familiar sights

[Verse 2]
Just as water seeks its level
So I only seek to live
Hoping somehow I can find
A way to give
And the sea, it softly beckons
"Come and go where you've not been."
With the dawning of a new day
I'm gone, again

[Chorus]
Lonely sailing nights
Gone racing, dimming lights
Lonely nights
And all too familiar sights

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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