Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Don Was

[Verse 1]
It was a curious sight to me
A castle older than a redwood tree
Once lived in by royalty
Who taxed and raped the land
Mostly now it was stone and dust
Long damp halls and smells of must
Faded walls and ancient rust
Built on shifting sand

[Chorus]
And I wanted, I wanted, I wanted
To smash that sucker down

[Verse 2]
It was a marvelous sight to see
A redhead workin' in a brasserie
Five foot nine built to a tee
Eyes so blue and bright
All the drunks were just circling round
I drank water and held my ground
Later on we did the town
And we caught every sight

[Chorus]
'Cause I wanted, I wanted, I wanted
To follow her on down

[Bridge]
Sightseein' freein' my soul
Sightseein' leavin' me on the road

[Verse 3]
It was a magical sight to me
An Yves Tanguy in a gallery
The Thirties looking back at me
As if he really knew
I marveled at the artistry
Predating our technology
The vision there for all to see
Bold and strong and true

[Chorus]
And I wanted, I wanted, I wanted
To take that painting home
I wanted, I wanted, I wanted
To take that vision home

[Outro]
Hey hey

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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