Bob Seger The Fire Inside Lyrics

The Fire Inside 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 lights
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