Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Jimmy Iovine

[Verse 1]
When your baby up and leaves you
Up and leaves you flat
Don't you laugh my friend
Sometimes it happens just like that
First you feel the anger
Then the sorrow will soon take control
And there'll be hard times for sure
Long cold lonely nights

[Chorus]
It might not sound like much
But it'll mean a lot you'll see
Every hour you survive
Ah, will come to be
A little victory
Little victory

[Verse 2]
As you struggle through each day
Each strange new day
Feelin' lost and wounded
Tryin' hard to find your way
No one there to talk it out with
Learnin' how to sleep alone
Overcomin' each new doubt
Tryin' hard just to accept it all

[Chorus]
Ah, every time you keep control
When you're cut off at the knees
Every time you take a punch
And still stand at ease
Little victories
Little victories
Alright

[Verse 3]
And when night falls
And there's no one around
The cruelest time of all
Not one sound
Listenin' to the wind blow
Listen to the tickin' of the clock
Tryin' hard to forget
Tryin' hard just to accept it all

[Chorus]
Oh, as you step out in the night
Take a lesson from the trees
Watch the way they learn to bend
With each breeze
Little victories
Little victories

[Outro]
Little victories
Oh, little victories
Every time you make it through
It's another little victory
Day by day
Minute by minute
Little victories
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Little victories
Little victories
Oh

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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