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ShakedownBob Seger

Released: May 23, 1987

Songwriter: Keith Forsey Harold Faltermeyer Bob Seger

Producer: Keith Forsey Harold Faltermeyer

[Verse 1]
No matter what you think you've pulled
You'll find it's not enough
No matter who you think you know
You won't get through
It's a given, L.A. law
Someone's faster on the draw
No matter where you hide
I'm comin' after you

[Verse 2]
No matter how the race is run
It always ends the same
Another room without a view
Awaits downtown
You can shake me for a while
Live it up in style
No matter what you do
I'm going to take you down

[Chorus]
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded light
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Let down your guard, honey
Just about the time you figured it's alright
Breakdown, take down
You're busted (Oh, oh, uh)

[Verse 3]
This is a town where everyone
Is reaching for the top
This is a place where
Second best will never do
It's okay you want to shine
But once you step across that line
No matter where you hide
I'm comin' after you

[Chorus]
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded light
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, honey
Just about the time you think that it's alright
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted

[Break]
Oh, busted
Oh oh

[Chorus]
Shakedown (Breakdown), breakdown (Takedown), takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded light
Breakdown (Takedown), takedown (Shakedown)
You're busted (Busted, busted)
Shakedown (Breakdown), breakdown (Takedown), honey
Just about the time you think that it's alright
Breakdown (Takedown), takedown (Shakedown)
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded light
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Let down your guard, honey
Just about the time you figured it's alright
Breakdown, takedown
Oh, you're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded light
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Let down your guard, honey
Just about the time you figured it's alright

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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