Lyrics to
Lookin’ Back

This version of Lookin’ Back was released by Bob Seger in 1976.

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You hit the street, you feel them staring
You know they hate you you can feel their eyes a glarin’
Because you’re different, because you’re free
Because you’re everything deep down they wish they could be

You’re lookin back (lookin back) they’re lookin back (lookin back)
Too many people lookin back
You’re lookin back (lookin back) they’re lookin back (lookin back)
Too many people lookin back

They watch the news, see young men dying
They watch them bleedin’ and listen to them lyin’
And if they’re normal if they can see
They just reach out and change the channel on the TV

When they could vote, and end the war
They’re much too busy fittin’ locks upon the back door
Give you a foxhole, a place to hide
Cause when the war come the cops’ll be on their side

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About Lyrics and Lookin’ Back by Bob Seger

The lyrics for Lookin’ Back are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Bob Seger. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Lookin’ Back have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Lookin’ Back - Bob Seger and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Lookin’ Back by Bob Seger in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Lookin’ Back" means the words set to the music of Lookin’ Back, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Seger. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Lookin’ Back and the lyrics to Lookin’ Back are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Seger who came here looking just for the lyrics to Lookin’ Back, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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