Bob Seger

Released: October 24, 1995

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
It's a mystery
How the heart beats
How the sun shines
How our eyes meet
It's a mystery
It's a wonder
How we keep from
Sinking under
It's a mystery

[Verse 2]
All the nonsense
Set before us
Supposed to shock us
But it bores us
All the ennui
All the replays
All the rewrites
All the "can't says"
It's a mystery

[Bridge]
Electron guns fire images
They end in interstellar space
Within the year
And through it all
We dance and starve and
Burn and clear

[Verse 3]
It's a mystery
How they con us
How they sneak 'til
They're upon us
All the anchors
With their helmets
Getting ratings
With their zealots

[Verse 4]
All the pundits
All the salesmen
Setting snake oil
To the nation
All the specials
Every rerun
All the penguins
Getting well-done
It's a mystery

[Verse 5]
It's a mystery
How the heart beats
How the sun shines
How our eyes meet
It's a mystery
It's a wonder
How we ever
Find each other
It's a mystery

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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