Bob Seger

Songwriter: Craig Frost Bob Seger

Producer: Punch Andrews Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
Saw you walkin' on a backstreet honey
Tryin' to slip away
Did you find someone to take your money
And did it make your day?
Take a lesson from someone who's been there
There are lots of roads that lead you nowhere

[Verse 2]
I can see it in your blank stare baby
Someone's done you in
Everybody hits the hard truth sometime
It's your time again
So you're lonesome and the night's approachin'
Honey this is where the tough get goin'

[Chorus]
Welcome to the tightrope (Tightrope)
Between memory and pain
Welcome to the tightrope (Tightrope)
Between the freedom and the chain
Welcome to the tightrope (Tightrope)
Stretched high above the street
Welcome to the tightrope (Tightrope)
It's right beneath your feet

[Verse 3]
Once you learn to balance truth and sorrow
You can worry 'bout the rest tomorrow

[Chorus]
Up there on the tightrope (Tightrope)
Oh, up there on the tightrope (Tightrope)
Up there on the tightrope (Tightrope)
Up there on the tightrope (Tightrope)
Oh it's a tightrope (Tightrope, tightrope)
Walkin' on a tightrope (Tightrope, tightrope)
Walkin' on a tightrope (Tightrope, tightrope)
Walkin' on a tightrope (Tightrope, tightrope)
Oh you're walkin' on a tightrope (Tightrope, tightrope)
Oh, walkin' on a tightrope (Tightrope)

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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