The title track from Bob Seger’s 1986 album has the hearty nostalgic appeal of a number of Mr. Seger’s earlier hits that look back longingly at youth.
This song’s greatest exposure was in Chevrolet truck television advertisements from 1991 until 2004, for their massively successful “Like a Rock” ca...
[Verse 1]
Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I'd never felt that strong
Like a rock
[Verse 2]
I was eighteen
Didn't have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock
[Verse 3]
My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock
[Chorus]
Like a rock—I was strong as I could be
Like a rock—nothin' ever got to me
Like a rock—I was something to see
Like a rock
[Bridge]
And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud—I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams
[Verse 4]
Twenty years now
Where'd they go?
Twenty years
I don't know
I sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they've gone
[Verse 5]
And sometimes late at night
Oh, when I'm bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin' a ghostly white
And I recall
I recall
[Chorus]
Like a rock—standin' arrow straight
Like a rock—chargin' from the gate
Like a rock—carryin' the weight
Like a rock
Oh like a rock—the sun upon my skin
Like a rock—hard against the wind
Like a rock—I see myself again
Like a rock—oh like a rock
Like a Rock was written by Bob Seger.
Like a Rock was produced by Bob Seger & Punch Andrews.