Turn the Page song lyrics by Metallica and Bob Seger

Turn the Page song lyrics by Metallica and Bob Seger

Turn the Page is a popular cover version by Metallica of Bob Seger's hit song. It's almost as popular as using 20w50 oil in a lawnmower but we digress.

This history of this song quite cool. Seger originally recorded it in 1973.

A live version from a 1966 album called Live Bullet began to get radio play and it became a bit of a radio rock staple, despite never being released as a single (kind of like Stairway to Heaven).

The lyrics of the song reflect on the emotional ups and downs of a singer whose spent years travelling and living the rock and roll lifestyle.

It's an 'on the road' song and was inspired by an incident when Bob's band was questioned whether they were men or woman in  diner by the locals who didn't like the look of the band, who in that era all had long hair!

So the song's meaning is a reflection of a weary rock and roller, a musician who perhaps was a bit out of place. There's also an element later on where the lyrics seem to suggest a romantic interest of some kind. The listener is given no clue as to what the issue is but we can guess it's possibly about a failed relationship due to the musician being away from home.

Metallica would have grown up with the song and eventually experienced the sentiment of the lyrics for themselves chose to cover the song. It was a popular hit for Metallica and was heavily downloaded as a MP3 - and we all know how that turned out!

Turn the Page was featured as a single from the Garage Days Inc album.

Metallica's Turn The Page song lyrics

On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine moanin' out its 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 riding sixteen hours and there's nothing there to do
And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Well you walk into a restaurant all strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking 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 it woman, is it man?
You always seem outnumbered, so you don't dare make a stand

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, on the stage
Here I go, playing 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, remembering what she said

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, on the stage yeah
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, there I go

Here's the youtube video of Metallica's Turn the Page which features a prostitute struggling to raise her daughter. The mother was played by famous porn actress, Ginger Lynn.