Bob Seger

Released: October 24, 1995

Songwriter: Bob Seger Craig Frost Tim Mitchell

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
I've seen two-time losers running everywhere
Shouting and screamin' "I was never there!"
With their hands in the air
Hands in the air

[Verse 2]
I've seen bad news messengers avoiding kings
Cheating spouses twisting their rings
With their hands in the air
Ah, got their hands in the air

[Bridge]
As guilty as the wind out on the sea
Affecting who we are and who we'll be

[Verse 3]
There's a desperation, a real despair
Even the good people are starting to declare
"I've got my hands in the air!"
"Ah my hands are in the air!"

[Verse 4]
They're surrendering, they're giving in
They'll do anything not to go through this again
They've got their hands in the air
Ah, their hands are in the air

[Bridge]
And they're sinking in the quicksand like a stone
Broken to the marrow of the bone, oh

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
The dealers are dividing up their tips
And the gamblers, they're all cashin' in their chips
There's a man in the middle of a parking lot
Wondering which way he should go
There's a star on the horizon
Sinking low, low

[Verse 5]
All you death wish addicts, you corrupters of truth
You killers of spirit, you marauders of youth
Get your hands in the air
I want to see your hands in the air

[Verse 6]
If you're selling these lies, these impossible dreams
You can keep on washin' but you'll never get clean
Get your hands in the air
Ah, let me see your hands in the air

[Outro]
Oh, oh
Get your hands in the air
Hands in the air
Oh, oh
Get your hands in the air
Hands in the air
Oh, oh
Ah, get your hands in the air
Hands in the air

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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