Bob Seger

Released: November 17, 2017

Songwriter: Lou Reed

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
You can't depend on your family
You can't depend on your friends
You can't depend on a beginning
You can't depend on an end

[Verse 2]
You can't depend on intelligence
You can't depend on the sky
You can only depend on one thing, honey
You need a busload of faith to get by

[Chorus]
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You need a busload of faith to get by

[Verse 3]
You can't depend on goodly hearted
The goodly hearted made lampshades and soap
You can't depend on your drinkin'
You can't depend on your dope

[Verse 4]
You can't depend on the President
Unless there's real estate that you wanna buy
You can't depend on a lot of things
You need a busload of faith to get by

[Chorus]
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You need a busload of faith to get by
Oh yeah

[Verse 5]
You can't depend on a miracle
You can't depend on the air
You can't depend on no wise men
You can't find 'em, they're not there

[Verse 6]
You can't depend on cruelty
On cruelty in thought and line
You can't depend on the water, honey
You need a busload of faith to get by

[Chorus]
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You need a busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by, baby
You need a busload of faith to get by
Get by!

[Outro]
Oh
Yeah
Get by!

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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