Words and music by bob seger

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
There's 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
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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» American Storm
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» Betty Lou's Getting Out Tonight
» Betty Lous Gettin Out Tonight
» Betty Lous Getting Out Tonight
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» Feel Like A Number
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» Fire Inside
» Fire Lake
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» Highway Child
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» Horizontal Bop
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» I Can't Save You Angelene
» I Cant Save You Angelene
» I Wanna Get Lost In Your Rock N' Roll
» I've Been Workin'
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» If I Were A Carpenter
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» Jody Girl
» Katmandu
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» Living Inside My Heart
» Lock And Load
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» Long Twin Silver Line
» Loves The Last To Know
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» Makin Thunderbirds
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» Mongrel
» Mongrel Too
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» New Coat Of Paint
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» Nine Tonight
» Nutbush City Limits
» Nutbush City Limts
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» Old Time Rock Roll
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» Railroad Days
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» River Deep-Mountain High
» Rock And Roll Never Forgets
» Rock N Roll Never Forgets
» Rock Roll Never Forgets
» Roll Me Away
» Sailing Nights
» School Teacher
» Seen A Lot Of Floors
» Shame On The Moon
» She Can't Do Anything Wrong
» She Cant Do Anything Wrong
» Shinin Brightly
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» Sightseeing
» So I Wrote You A Song
» Something Like
» Somewhere Tonight
» Song For Him
» Song To Rufus
» Stealer
» Sun Spot Baby
» Sunburst
» Sunspot Baby
» The Famous Final Scene
» The Fire Down Below
» The Fire Inside
» The Horizontal Bop
» The Last Song (Love Needs To Be Loved)
» The Long Way Home
» The Mountain
» The Real Love
» The Stealer
» This Old House
» Til It Shines
» Till It Shines
» Train Man
» Travelin'
» Tryin' To Live My Life Without You
» UMC (Upper Middle Class)
» Understandingbs
» We Have Got Tonight
» West Of The Moon
» Which Way
» White Wall
» You Know Who You Are
» You Never Can Tell (C'Est La Vie)
» You'll Accompany Me
» You'll Accomp'ny Me
» Youll Accompany Me

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