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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bob Seger
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Producer
Punch
Producer
Thom Panunzio
Engineer
David Cole
Mixing Engineer
Brett Swain
Assistant Recording Engineer
Wally Traugott
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
There's a hard moon rising
On the streets tonight
There's a reckless feeling in your heart
As you head out tonight
[Verse 2]
Through the concrete canyons
To the midtown lights
Where the latest neon promises
Are burning bright
[Verse 3]
Past the open windows
On the darker streets
Where unseen angry voices flash
And children cry
[Verse 4]
Past the phony posers
With their worn out lines
The tired new money dressed to the nines
[Verse 5]
The low life dealers with their bad designs
And the dilettantes
With their open minds
[Verse 6]
You're out on the town
Safe in the crowd
Ready to for the ride
Searching the eyes
Looking for clues
There's no way you can hide
The fire inside
[Verse 7]
Well, you've been to the clubs
And the discoteques
Where they deal one another
From the bottom of the deck of promises
[Verse 8]
Where the cautious loners and emotional wrecks
Do an acting stretch as a way to hide the obvious
[Verse 9]
And the lights go down
And they dance real close
And for one brief instant
They pretend they're safe and warm
[Verse 10]
And 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
[Verse 11]
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
The fire inside
[Verse 12]
Now the hour is late and he thinks your asleep
You listen to him dress and you listen to him leave
Like you knew he would
[Verse 13]
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
[Verse 14]
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
[Verse 15]
Like the 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
[Verse 16]
The fire inside
Fire inside
Oh fire inside
Burning you up
Burning you up
Fire inside
Written by: Bob Seger