Turn the Page (song)

Song

Tour Dates

Turn the Page is the fourth track on Disc 1 from 1998's album Garage, Inc. It was written by Bob Seger and has a length of 6:06.

About

This song was originally released by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band on the Back in '72 album. Metallica version was recorded in Sep-Oct 1998, at The Plant Studios in Sausalito, CA. "Turn the Page" was also released by Metallica on a self-titled single.

Live

• "Turn the Page" has been performed live 94 times as of January, 2025.
• "Turn the Page" was first performed live on October 18th, 1998, in Las Angeles, California, at the Playboy Mansion, for a private party thrown by Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
• It was last performed live on April 12th, 2023, in Las Angeles, California, for the Howard Stern Show.

Video

A video for this song was released by Metallica. Directed by Jonas Akerlund, the video was filmed in October 1998, in Los Angeles, CA. The premiere was on October 28, 1998.

Lyrics

On a long and lonesome highway east of omaha
You can listen to the engines moaning out as one long song
You 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 much to do 
And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip wasthrough

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

So you walk into this restaurant 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

Yeah, most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can
All the same old clichés, "is it woman? is it man?"
And you always seem outnumbered, you don't dare make a stand
Make your stand

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

Oo-ooh, 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,yeah

Later in the evening, you lie awake in bed
With the echoes of the amplifiers ringing in your head
You smoke the day's last cigarette, remembering what she said
What she said

He-ey

Yeah
And here I am - on the road again
There I am - up on a stage
Here I go - playing star again
There I go - turn the page
There I go - turn that page
There I go, yeah, yeah
There I go, yeah, yeah
There I go, yeah
There I go, yeah
There I go, oo-oo-ooh
There I go
And I'm gone