ATF: Road-Trippin'

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Bob Seger]

Turn The Page

Bob Seger

On a long and lonesome highway

East of Omaha

You can listen to the engine

Moanin’ out its one note song

You can think about the woman

Or the girl you knew the night before

But your thoughts will soon be wanderin'

The way they always do

When you're ridin’ sixteen hours

And there's nothin' much to do

And you don't feel much like ridin’

You just wish the trip was through

Say

Here I am

On a road again

There I am

Up on a stage

Here I go

Playin' the star again

There I go

Turn the page

Well you walk into a restaurant

Strung out from the road

And you feel the eyes upon you

As you're shakin' off the cold

You pretend it doesn't bother you

But you just want to explode

Most times you can't hear 'em talk

Other times you can

All the same old clichés

Is that a woman or a man

And you always seem outnumbered

You don't dare make a stand

Ah

Here I am

On a road again

There I am

Up on a stage

Here I go

Playin' the star again

There I go

Turn the page

Out there in the spotlight

You're a million miles away

Every ounce of energy

You try to give away

As the sweat pours out your body

Like the music that you play

Later in the evenin’

As you lie awake in bed

With the echoes from the amplifiers

Ringin' in your head

You smoke the day's last cigarette

Rememberin’ what she said

Ah

Here I am

On a road again

There I am

Up on a stage

Here I go

Playin' the star again

There I go

Turn the page

Ah

Here I am

On a road again

There I am

Up on a stage

Here I go

Playin the star again

There I go

There I go

Link: [Blackfoot]

Highway Song

Blackfoot

Yeah

Another day

Another dollar

After I’ve sang and hollered

Oh it’s my way of livin’

And I can’t change a thing

Another town is drawin’ near

Oh baby I wish you were here

But the only way I can see you darlin’

Is in my dreams

It’s a highway song

You sing it on and on

On and on

Well

The hurt you leave behind

It’s the hurt that’s on your mind

Oh and last night’s show

Took its toll on me

Well the city lights fly by me

As I lay my body in my bed

Oh and dreams of you

Dance through my head

It’s a highway song

You sing it on and on

On and on

Highway song

Is as lonely

As the road I’m on

Guess those big wheels are ready to roll

We’ve been flyin’ high and so low

Lord and all this madness

Ain’t as crazy as it seems

Everywhere they stop and stare

I’m just a stranger on this road

Oh I stand alone

Only in my dreams

Highway song

You sing it on and on

On and on

Highway song

Is as lonely

As the road I’m on

Well

Highway song

Highway song

You sing it on and on

On and on

Highway song

Is as lonely

As the road I’m on

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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