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Leanin’ On My DreamBob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Punch Andrews Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
I was walkin' to the corner drug store
What should I happen to see?
There were picket lines
And the people were shoutin'
"Down with democracy"
As I strolled on by someone grabbed my arm and said
"Buddy where do you stand"?
I said "I stand wherever I choose my friend
And you best let go of my hand"
As I walked away on a sunny day
I swear I heard him scream
"You know you're leanin' on my dream"
"Hey man you're leanin on my dream"

[Verse 2]
Got home and turned on the TV set
And sat me down to eat
And a man came on
Talkin' bout the coppers
They were blockin' off another street
Seems some folks was raisin' cain
And a riot had broke out
And they flashed the camera on the guy who had stopped me
I watched him runnin' about
As the cops were draggin' him away
I heard one of 'em scream
"You know you're leanin' on my dream"
"These kids are leanin' on my dream"
Oh yeah

[Verse 3]
Well I got up and turned off the TV set
And to tell you I was feelin' mean
And I thought a while
Tryin to make some sense
Out of everything that I had seen
I was addin' the score when there's a knock on the door
Was a letter addressed to me
It read "Greetings from the Pesident, United States"
I fell down on my knees
The next day I was on the picket line
And Lord you should have heard me scream
"You know you're leanin' on my dream"
"Hey man you're leanin' on my dream"

[Outro]
Oh, you know you're leanin' on my dream
Oh, leanin' on my dream
Leanin', leanin', yeah
Oh, on my dream

Bob Seger

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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