Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Don Was

[Verse 1]
You take a chance on an airplane
You take a chance when you cross the street
You take a chance when you love somebody
When you're standing near the heat

[Verse 2]
Take a chance when you're honest
Take a chance when you tell lies
You take a chance when you trust somebody
When you look 'em in the eyes

[Chorus]
Take a chance on me
Take a chance on me
I'm exactly what you see honey
Take a chance on me

[Verse 3]
You take a chance when you're indecisive
You take a chance when you're aloof
You take a chance when you judge somebody
When you really got no proof

[Verse 4]
Take a chance when you refuse to hear
You take a chance when you're unkind
You take a chance when you refuse to grow up baby
You end up left behind

[Chorus]
Take a chance on me
Take a chance on me
I'm exactly what you see honey
Take a chance on me

[Verse 5]
Take a chance when you're ruthless
You take a chance when you're cruel
You take a chance when you make a vow babe
To be nobody's fool

[Verse 6]
Take a chance when you're distant
You take a chance when you live inside
You take a chance when someone loves you
And you leave them with no pride

[Chorus]
Take a chance on me
Take a chance on me
I'm exactly what you see honey
Take a chance on me
Oh take a chance on me
Take a chance on me
I'm exactly what you see baby
Take a chance on me

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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