Lyrics for Turn The Page as interpreted by kevin

Turn The Page Lyrics
On a long and lonesome highway
east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine
moanin' out his one note song
You can think about the woman
or the girl you knew the night before
But your thoughts will soon be wandering
the way they always do
When you're ridin' sixteen hours
and there's nothin' much to do
And you don't feel much like ridin',
you just wish the trip was through

Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go

Well you walk into a restaurant,
strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
as you're shakin' off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you

but you just want to explode
Most times you can't hear 'em talk,
other times you can
All the same old cliches,
"Is that a woman or a man?"
And you always seem outnumbered,
you don't dare make a stand

Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' star again
There I go
Turn the page

Out there in the spotlight
you're a million miles away
Every ounce of energy
you try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body
like the music that you play
Later in the evening
as you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers
ringin' in your head
You smoke the day's last cigarette,
rememberin' what she said

Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' star again
There I go
Turn the page

Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' star again
There I go
There I go

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dragon_wizard
01-21-2002

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i really like this song. it is true in very many ways. u just have to really listen to the lyrics. what i think he is trying to say in this song is that there are many prices to fame such as people always following,talking about, and bothering you. but i think that what it all comes down to in the end is that the question. WHY WOULD SOMEONE PAY A HIGH PRICE IF THEY DIDNT LOVE WHAT THEY DO?

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BenRules7
05-29-2002

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This song is a great one. Not too many young people such as myself know that its Segar. This song to me means that you can't get hung up on one event in your life, you have to move on and let shit go.

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SgtPepperLHCB
06-05-2002

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Metallica's cover is decent, but the original is the best!!!!! :)

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OzzyGurly
07-08-2002

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I really like this song...when Metallica sings it. I don't like Bob Seger at all..he like basically talks throughout the whole song... but when Metallica does it is great! Even my dad thinks so and he actually likes Bob Seger... Even the music is much better in the Metallica cover.

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boonhead
08-12-2002

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OzzyGurly the Metallica version doesn't ever compare to Bob Seger's version. I'm a huge Metallica fan and I think Seger's is way better.

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Dreamweaver1962
09-24-2002

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Ozzy - first of all "Turn the Page" is a ballad - not something a heavy metal group should have even TRIED to remake. Nothing beats the original version!!! Was Metallica so desperate for money that they had to remake a lot of classic rock songs???? Napster must have really put a dent in their income!!!!

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TSA
04-03-2003

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This song was produced and written with Seger in mind. It was done much more effectively by a great singer like Seger, not Metallica's lead singer (forgot his name after the Napster ordeal), who sounds like he's forcing his words instead of singing.

The only classic remake that's real notable is Guns N Roses "Knockin On Heaven's Door", but that's just me.

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rfuree11
05-08-2003

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napster proved a good way to cover up the fact that all of metallicas new stuff blew and nobody wanted to buy it. They just blamed the crappy sales on napster. I like winMX better, anyways :)

great song (the original)

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kkhx3
06-06-2003

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I like to browse the internet and see what other people say about various things. A lot of times I have been frightened (you oughta see some of the freaks that have left comments about Charles Manson, wow), and other times, just saddened by what I have perceived as the 'younger generation' commenting on classic songs. The people posting for this song? Well, my faith in humanity has been restored. Yes, Seger's original version of this is FAR better than Metallica's. More..... believeable. TSA wrote that James Hetfield sounds as though he is 'forcing the words'?. TSA is being polite. Sounds like Mr. Hetfield is trying to shit a watermelon, somewhat unsuccessfully. Seger sounds believeably road-weary. So the listner can wind up believing Seger, tired, a bit burned-out and missing home, whereas Hetfield is like a Bouvier in a cement-mixer.

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angeleyes69_4202003
04-22-2004

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I have always liked Segar, his music and style was about different things in life and how they learned from it. I am not too crazy about Metallica singing this song. This song is a legend to most people and live by the lyrics in life.

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MGM777
05-25-2004

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This song was made to be sung the way it is. I say let Metallica sing the songs they are used to-punk rock etc.

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Z/28
10-26-2004

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Seger's version is the best. There are very few remakes that are better than the original. The best remake has to be Hendrix's All Along The Watch Tower. I like Dylan but his was bad.

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Olex
11-20-2004

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I love this song, I'll listen to Metalica's version, but Bob's is so much friggin better

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Rollingstonesrock
11-23-2004

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GREAT SONG! enough said

\\//PEACE

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OpinionHead
01-19-2005

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What really gets me about this song is that don't know for sure if it's a live recording or if it was done in the studio. I have always wondered about that and I came away believing it was a live recording. I hear whistling in the background and the crowd cheering at the end of the song. If this was a studion recording, then they must have used some voodoo magic to make it sound real. If this was a live song, where did they record it at? Anyway anybody looks at it, this song is a classic regardless if it was covered or not. Metallica is to this song what Limp Bizkit is to "Behind Blue Eyes". Both are better when they record their own shit, not when they copy over somebody else's stuff. If it a classic, all other bands should keep their mitts off of it. Seger is a great singer/songwriter and worthy of placement in the hall of fame.

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jshiscool
02-21-2005

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i say let other bands play remakes of old songs because when they do that its kind of like idolizing the original singer/songwriter....and if you dont like the new one, then dont listen to it....but either way its a good song

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Pinkfloyd-er
03-17-2005

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Turn the page is a song about a rock star (with long hair "Is that a woman or a man?") with problems about going anywhere without people talking about him behind his back and he just wants to go home and get back to his normal life. I really love this song but I think metallica ruins it with their hard rock, this song wasn't meant to be hard rock it was supposed to be a a softer rock.

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Big Vitt
03-30-2005

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First of all, Seger is the only one who can truly perform this song well. The fact that a heavy metal band like Metallica even tried is laughable.

Secondly, as Seger himself stated at the beginning of the live rendition, this is song about being on the road. It's about the stresses and pressures of performing, travelling, and the monotony that comes with that after a time. I don't think there are any hidden meanings here.

But whatever the true meaning of the lyrics may be, in the end, it's just an excellent song.

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lps41
07-26-2005

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Okay, any of you who say it shouldn't be redone by a heavy metal or "punk band, etc" like Metallica, are IDIOTS. Simple as that. Metallica has ALWAYS been far from punk, so whoever said that is a complete idiot.

Second off, after Cliff Burton's death Metallica went into a much softer style of music. Especially when they did this cover, on their Garage Inc album. They did Bob Seger justice in it.

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fastfingerz
08-10-2005

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metaliica was fuking broke, that's why they did garage inc. i had a friend that had that album, and he swore up and down that they were all metallica originals, even when i brought several vinyl recordings over"Oh, they stole it form metallica when they originally did it in shows" todays music sucks, deal with it.

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jim19617
09-19-2005

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No way Metalica did justice to this song. They should have stuck to their roots.

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smitty83
10-29-2005

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Metallica weren't broke. I am a huge metallica fan, I have every album, and there isnt one song they've written, but Ozzygurly.. Bob Seger's version is definately better. Metallica's version could have sounded much better if they left the distortion and hard drums 'till the end.

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brian_b
02-08-2006

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"This is from '72 also... 'bout bein' on the road. 'ts called turn the page... eeahh"

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Mr. No Name
02-25-2006

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Metallica's version sucks compared to this. This is the best Bob Seger song in my opinion, a true piece of art that honestly didn't need a Metal remake. It's just too great a song to be copied.

And Robert's voice is just SOOOOO much better than Metallica's lead singers.

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Mr. No Name
03-05-2006

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"but you just want to explode
Most times you can't hear 'em talk,
other times you can
All the same old cliches,
"Is that a woman or a man?"
And you always seem outnumbered,
you don't dare make a stand"

This doesn't mean that the main character in this has long hair, Pinkfloyd. This states how hard it is to be a soft rock star when your outnumbered by the heavy metal monsters at the time of this song...kind of ironic that METALLICA would cover this song afterwards...

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