Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
He wants to dream like a young man
With the wisdom of an old man
He wants his home and security
He wants to live like a sailor at sea

[Chorus]
Beautiful loser
Where you gonna fall
When you realize
You just can't have it all?

[Verse 2]
He's your oldest and your best friend
If you need him, he'll be there again
He's always willing to be second-best
A perfect lodger, a perfect guest

[Chorus]
Beautiful loser
Read it on the wall
And realize
You just can't have it all
You just can't have it all

[Post-Chorus]
You just can't have it all
Oh, oh, can't have it all
You can try, you can try, but you can't have it all
Ah yeah

[Bridge]
He'll never make any enemies, enemies (No)
He won't complain if he's caught in a freeze (Nah)
He'll always ask, he'll always say please
Ooh

[Chorus]
Beautiful loser
Never take it all
'Cause it's easier
And faster when you fall
You just don't need it all
Oh, you just don't need it all

[Outro]
You just don't need it all
Ooh
Just don't need it all

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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