The lyrics to the song Night Moves are poetry. The song itself is about the passage of time, the seasons of our lives, and the way Bob changes the meaning of the phrase "night moves" throughout, to match the changes of our lives, is masterful. In the beginning of the song "night moves" refers to the way we play the game when we're younger . . . everything from those night moves we make "in the back rooms, the alleys, or the trusty woods," to (as the song progresses and reaches the point where he sings, "Ain't it funny how the night moves? When you just don't seem to have as much to lose,") and he's using "night moves" to represent the reflective silence of the night where we look back on our lives, the miles behind us and the miles ahead, and we wonder if we've accomplished all we set out to accomplish, if we've lived the way we meant to live.
All that deep shit aside, though, the album Night Moves remains a favorite of mine. Great songs like Rock and Roll Never Forgets, with the cool line, "All Chuck Berry's children are out there playin' his licks. If you need a fix, you can come back, baby, 'cause rock 'n' roll never forgets."
And it doesn't. That's the truth.
Other awesome tunes from this album? There are many. Mainstreet. "I remember standin' on the corner at midnight, tryin' to get my courage up. There was this long, lovely dancer in a little club downtown. Used to love to watch her do her stuff . . ." The song made more poignant by the oh-so-simple guitar lick that was used in the opening of the song and reiterated throughout. If you've forgotten it (and I don't see how that's possible), listen again.
Then the really fun songs, Come to Poppa and Fire Down Below. Other tracks, too, like the storytelling he does in Ship of Fools and the get-even lyric of a man taken advantage of by a woman in Mary Lou.
Night Moves is an album I never tire of.
Bob Seger is timeless.
Bob Seger is timeless.
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