Bob Seger

Released: November 17, 2017

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
In the ancient middle fifties
The closing sixties roar
I was caught up in your passion
I could only beg for more
And if I had a dollar bill
I'd give it to you then
So I could tell the whole wide world
One day I knew you when

[Verse 2]
With your dangerous charisma
Your thundering attack
You charged the very air I breathed
And kept me coming back
You helped me through my darkest hours
You always were my friend
You gave me hope to carry on
Because I knew you when

[Bridge]
I knew you when the mountain tops
Were right beneath your feet
When artistry and freedom were complete
Before you were an icon
Before they all tuned in
You could say I knew you when

[Verse 3]
We all sit here with our memories
Of a glorious long ago
When our heroes seemed immortal
Were they really so?
It's a question for a wiser man
I will not ask again
I will only say I'm grateful
For the time I knew you when
I knew you when (I knew you when)
Oh, I knew you when
I knew you when (I knew you when)
Yeah I knew you when

[Outro]
I knew you when (I knew you when)
I knew you when (I knew you when)
Yeah I knew you when

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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