"The Fire Inside"



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 lights

Where the latest neon promises

Are burning bright



Past the open windows on the darkened streets

Where unseen angry voices flash and children cry

Past the phony posers with their worn out lines

Their tired new money dressed to the nines

The low life dealers with their bad designs

And the dilletantes 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

There's nowhere you can hide



The Fire Inside



Well you've been the the clubs and the discotheques

Where the deal one another from the bottom of the deck

Of promises



Where the cautious loners and emotional wrecks

Do an acting stretch

As a way to hide the obvious



Then the lights for 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

Then they move appart and then move on



On to the street

On to the next

Safe in the Knowledge that the 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

Like you knew he would



You hear his car pull away on 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

Then in 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





--from the Album "The Fire Inside" by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet

Band

--Submitted by mchaifet@indiana.edu