Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
No matter who you are, no matter what you do
There's gonna be someone wants something else from you
Yeah
This is an ancient test, it's a shiny lie
Discover something pure then sit and watch it die
Yeah

[Chorus]
No matter who you are, no matter where you've been
No matter what you've done you'll have to start again
No matter who you are

[Verse 2]
Between the soaring dreams and the bottom line
So much is given up, so much is left behind
Yeah
This is the price you pay, this is the beast you feed
When you abandon hope and you give in to greed

[Chorus]
No matter who you are, no matter who you've been
You'll have to sort it out and start again
No matter who you are (No matter who you are)
No matter who you are (No matter who you are)

[Verse 3]
Don't take this wrong, don't let it bring you down
It's just the way things work in this great big town
Yeah

[Outro]
(No matter) Yeah (Who you are)
No matter who you are (No matter who you are)
No matter who you are (No matter who you are)
No matter who you are (No matter who you are)

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.