Bob Seger

Released: May 5, 1978

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Punch Andrews

[Verse 1]
Nights were warm
Dreams were easy
No one standing overhead
Conversation didn't mean much
We were hungry but we could not be fed
Radio blasting silly little love songs
We only listened for the beat
Taking our chances
Out there on the mean streets
Hiding in the shadows from the heat
From the heat

[Verse 2]
We weren't lovers just brave strangers
As we fought and we tumbled through the night
We were players not arrangers
And we jammed till the dawn's early light
Swimming in the big lake
Taking it easy
Taking any comfort we could find
Didn't need the real truth
Didn't need the meaning
Straight ahead ignoring every sign
Every sign
And oh I remember
I know you do too
Oh that one evening
I know you do too

[Bridge]
Baby
I know you remember it too, yeah
You know the moon was high
The moon was flying high
We were hiding in the backwoods
Hiding out in the backwoods
With the moon flying high (Moon flying high)
And my hand was shaking
My hand was shaking
And you took my hand
You took my hand
And it went all right (It went all right)
It went all right (It went all right)
It went all right
Baby baby baby (It went all right)
It went all right
It went all right
All right
All right

[Verse 3]
So we walked out hardly speaking
Disappearing in the night
Saw each other a few times after
But we never really got it right
We weren't lovers, just brave strangers
As we rolled and we tumbled through the night
We were players not arrangers
And we jammed till the dawn's early light
Early light

[Outro]
We weren't lovers, no (Just brave strangers)
Just brave strangers (Just brave strangers)
We weren't lovers (Just brave strangers)
Just brave strangers (Just brave strangers)
Whoa whoa (Just brave strangers)
Whoa (Just brave strangers)
Whoa whoa (Just brave strangers)
Whoa (Just brave strangers)
Whoa whoa
Whoa whoa
Whoa whoa
Whoa whoa
Whoa whoa yeah

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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