Lyrics to
20 Years From Now

This version of 20 Years From Now was released by Bob Seger in 1974.

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Jan is tired of her inhaler
When she moved here from back east
Still she said she’d stay beside me
And she brought me a new peace

I saw her smilin’ in the summer sun
I saw her ‘neath the quiet moon
I knew right then I’d never leave her
She had taken me so soon
When she went
She went

And we settled near the blue lagoon
Listened all night to the wind
Sometimes we laughed, sometimes we cried
Sometimes we just went for a swim
All that time my love kept growing, growing, growing
Made me feel so warm inside
All the time her smile glowing
And it gave me so much pride
When she went, yeah when she went

Yeah, now we sit here in the evening
And listen to the crickets sing
And we’ll be here twenty years from now
And we’ll hear the crickets sing
And then she’ll go, oh, oh, oh, oh
She’ll go

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About Lyrics and 20 Years From Now by Bob Seger

When you decide to study the lyrics to 20 Years From Now, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Bob Seger. Some of the lyrics to 20 Years From Now have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Seger and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to 20 Years From Now if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 20 Years From Now" means the words set to the music of 20 Years From Now, 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 20 Years From Now and the lyrics to 20 Years From Now 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 20 Years From Now, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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