Bob Seger

Released: October 24, 1995

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
It's the age of reason for the anarchist
It's a change of venue for the lobbyist
It's a dream of justice buried in the grist

[Verse 2]
It's a secret briefing based on need to know
It's a condescending rationale from command control
Feel the sense of wonder at the overthrow

[Verse 3]
It's a rite of passage through a hurricane
Through a rolling thunder, through a screaming rain
Hear the shriek of Abel, hear the cry of Cain

[Bridge]
And Abraham will take his son
Five billion years from now the cruelty will be done

[Verse 3]
Make a destination of the greater truth
Make 'em hang their heads and eat their words
When you find the proof
This is all you're given, it's your only move

[Verse 4]
It's a rite of passage for the everyman
To a higher ground. to a brighter light, to a promised land
You can feel the power of the master's hand

[Outro]
It's a rite of passage
It's a rite of passage
It's a rite of passage
It's a rite of passage
It's a rite of passage
It's a rite of passage

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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