Bob Seger

Released: November 17, 2017

Songwriter: Bob Seger Craig Frost Mark Chatfield

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
There's a bloodshot moon risin' on the cornfield
Since she went away
A rusty ax layin' in the barnyard
It's seen better days
The banks are tellin' him he should sell
He's tellin' them to go straight to hell

[Verse 2]
Everyone is headin' for the city
Givin' up on the land
Takin' jobs with the big corporations
Too tired to make a stand
The dusty roads are all empty now
The wind and weather have taken 'em all to task

[Chorus]
The frontier is returnin'
Forward into the past

[Bridge]
From the silent frozen winter
The dark and endless night
Where the plains stretch out forever
In a sea of barren white
To the billion dollar merger
To bailouts in the east
Where currencies are mangled
And Wall Street has a feast
Independence is outmoded
Out of favor, out of sync
Abandoned and forgotten
Discarded in the blink of an eye

[Verse 3]
His hometown's nearly empty now
Schools and churches too
The trains have stopped for a hundred years
They just rumble through
The trucks stay out on the big highway
His whole way of life is fadin' fast

[Chorus]
The tall grass is returnin'
Forward into the past

[Outro]
Forward into the past
Forward into the past
Forward into the past
Forward into the past

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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