Lyrics to
Sometimes

This version of Sometimes was released by Bob Seger in 1971.

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Sometimes you’re far away.
Sometimes you just don’t hear
A single word I say.
Sometimes you just don’t care,
Sometimes you just don’t care, at all.

Sometimes I don’t know why,
Sometimes I don’t know why.
Sometimes I don’t know why
I love you, sometimes.
You never look at me,
You’re always somewhere else.
We might be all alone
But you’re all by yourself.
You tell me that you’re tired,
You tell me that you’re tired
And that’s all.

Sometimes I think I’ll leave,
You wouldn’t miss me much.
And then you take my hand,
Ooh, and then I feel your touch.
Suddenly I know,
Yeah, suddenly I know
Why I’m here.

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Bob Seger has released many songs over the years besides Sometimes. 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 Sometimes by Bob Seger

The lyrics to Sometimes are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Bob Seger in 1971. Elements of the lyrics to Sometimes 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 Sometimes back when it was created.

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

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