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Like a RockBob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Punch Andrews

[Verse 1]
Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I'd never felt that strong
Like a rock

[Verse 2]
I was eighteen
Didn't have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock

[Verse 3]
My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock

[Chorus]
Like a rock—I was strong as I could be
Like a rock—nothin' ever got to me
Like a rock—I was something to see
Like a rock

[Bridge]
And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud—I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

[Verse 4]
Twenty years now
Where'd they go?
Twenty years
I don't know
I sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they've gone

[Verse 5]
And sometimes late at night
Oh, when I'm bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin' a ghostly white
And I recall
I recall

[Chorus]
Like a rock—standin' arrow straight
Like a rock—chargin' from the gate
Like a rock—carryin' the weight
Like a rock
Oh like a rock—the sun upon my skin
Like a rock—hard against the wind
Like a rock—I see myself again
Like a rock—oh like a rock

Bob Seger

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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