Lyrics to
Brave Strangers

This version of Brave Strangers was released by Bob Seger in 1978.

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Nights were warm
Dreams were easy
No one standing overhead
Conversation didn’t mean much
We were hungry but could not be fed
Radio blasting silly little love songs
We only listened for the beat
Taking our chances
Out there on the mean streets
Hiding in the shadows from the heat
We weren’t lovers just brave strangers
As we fought and we tumbled through the night
We were players not arrangers
As we jammed till the dawn’s early light
Swimming in the big lake
Taking it easy
Taking any comfort we could find
Didn’t need the real truth
Didn’t need the meaning
Straight ahead ignoring every sign
Every sign
And oh I remember I know you do too
Oh that one evening
I know you do too
Baby
I know you remember it too
The moon was high
Moon was flying high
We were hiding in the backwoods
Hiding out in the backwoods
With the moon flying high
My hand was shaking
And you took my hand
And it went all right
And it went all right
It went all right
So we walked out hardly speaking
Disappearing in the night
Saw each other a few times after
But we never really got it right
We weren’t lovers just brave strangers
As we rolled and we tumbled through the night
We were players not arrangers
And we jammed till the dawn’s early light

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Bob Seger has released many songs over the years besides Brave Strangers. Bob Seger released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, Noah, Mongrel, Brand New Morning, Smokin' O.P.'s, Back In '72, Seven, Beautiful Loser, Night Moves, Live Bullet, Stranger In Town, Against The Wind, Nine Tonight, The Distance, Like A Rock, The Fire Inside, Greatest Hits, It's A Mystery, Greatest Hits 2, and Face The Promise. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bob Seger.

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About Lyrics and Brave Strangers by Bob Seger

The lyrics to Brave Strangers are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Bob Seger in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Brave Strangers are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Bob Seger and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Brave Strangers back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Brave Strangers by Bob Seger in a number of 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 Brave Strangers" means the words set to the music of Brave Strangers, 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 Brave Strangers and the lyrics to Brave Strangers 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 Brave Strangers, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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