Bob Seger

Released: May 5, 1978

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

[Verse 1]
Take away my inhibitions
Take away my solitude
Fire me up with your resistance
Mmm, put me in the mood
Storm the walls around this prison
Leave the inmates
Free the guards
Deal me up another future
From some brand new deck of cards

[Chorus]
Take the chip off of my shoulder
Smooth out all the lines
Take me out among the rustling pines
Till it shines
Ah, till it shines

[Verse 2]
Like an echo down a canyon
Never coming back as clear
Lately I just judge the distance
Not the words I hear
I've been too long on these islands
I've been far too long alone
I've been too long without summer
In this winter home

[Chorus]
Still if we can make the effort
If we take the time
Maybe we can leave this much behind
Till it shines
Mmm, till it shines

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
See the rich man lost and lonely
Watch him as he dines
Sitting there just testing all the wines
Till it shines
Mmm, till it shines

[Outro]
Till it shines
Oh, till it shines
Till it shines
Mmm

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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