Bob Seger - The Fire Inside

From the album: Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band - The Fire Inside (1991).

Lyrics:

There´s a hard moon risin´
On the streets tonight
There´s a reckless feeling in your heart
As you head out tonight
Through the concrete canyons
To the midtown light
Where the latest neon promises
Are burning bright

Past the open windows on the darker streets
Where unseen angry voices flash and children cry
Past the phony posers with their worn out lines
The tired new money dressed to the nines
The low life dealers with their bad designs
And the dilettantes with their open minds

You´re out on the town
Safe in the crowd
Ready to go for the ride
Searching the eyes
Looking for clues
Theres no way you can hide
The Fire Inside

Well you´ve been to the clubs
And the discotheques
Where they deal one another
From the bottom of a deck of promises
Where the cautious loners and emotional wrecks
Do an acting stretch as a way to hide the obvious
And the lights go down and they dance real close

And for one brief instant
They pretend they´re safe and warm
Then the beat gets louder
And the mood is gone
The darkness scatters as the lights flash on
They hold one another just a little too long
And they move apart and then move on

On to the street
on to the next
Safe in the knowledge that they tried
Faking the smile, hiding the pain
Never satisfied
The Fire Inside
Fire inside

Now the hour is late
And he thinks you´re asleep
You listen to him dress
And you listen to him leave
You listen to him dress like you knew he would
You hear his car pull away in the street
Then you move to the door and you lock it
When he´s gone for good

Then you walk to the window
and stare at the moon
Riding high and lonesome
Through a starlit sky
And it comes to you how it all slips away
Youth and beauty are gone one day
No matter what you dream or feel or say

It ends in dust and disarray
Like wind on the plains
Sand through the glass
Waves rolling in with the tide
Dreams die hard
And we watch them erode
But we cannot be denied
The Fire Inside

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[jrizle86]

this song is underatedly amazing. best seger song of all time..

[FrightNight7387]

Fantastic!

[remowil55]

my fav is Coming Home, i was gone 10 years. Came back to were i was born, had lost everything except the shirt off my back. Felt stange cause so much had changed.

[banda6612]

I love Kathmandu!!!!

[ldolphin34]

Just when people thought he didn't have it any more, this single came out. Bob will ALWAYS have the fire inside....

[kez51able]

@Justdivine7 Have a listen to By the river another great Bob song..

[TaperTomStrizak1959]

Coolest song! There will always be just one woman I think of when I hear this song.

[apolonio0907]

This album is a milestone.Right on the eve of madness! Enough Said!

[FahQBB]

@TheEnderdxx Yea Bob do play percussion almost as well as he sings

[sbubbb]

This really is in the top 5 all time Seger songs.  Maybe just behind Night Moves and R&R Never Forgets...........And, he didn't even play it when I saw him last month. It's a masterpiece, Bob!

[Justdivine7]

I had never heard about this song till now and I think this is the best BOB seger song after we've got tonight and I can't get enough played it like 50 times still sounding awesome thank god he's still alive went to his concert in Houston awesome awesome i hope many more