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“Turn the Page” was originally released by Bob Seger in 1973, his version never made the music charts, but an evocative live performance in 1976  helped  the song  become a mainstay of album-oriented rock radio stations, and still gets significant airplay to this day on classic rock stations.  “Turn the Page” is about the emotional and social ups and downs of a rock musician’s life on the road, against a slow tempo and a mournful saxophone part.

Metallica covered the song as thier first single from the 1998 Garage Inc. album and it reached #1 on the Billboard charts for 11 consecutive weeks, the highest number of weeks Metallica has ever spent at the top. The Metallica version has the same tempo as Seger’s did, but with a heavier feel typical to Metallica music; the saxophone part was replaced witha slide guitar line from Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield played a guitar solo before the last run through the chorus.

Metallica’s music video for the song  is about the life of a stripper who prostitutes herself while she is trying to raise a child.

Found on  Garage Inc. Album

( Originally recorded by Bob Seger )

On a long and lonesome highway,
east of Omaha
You can listen to the engines
moanin’ out it’s one old song
You can think about the woman,
or the girl you knew the night before
But your thoughts will soon be wanderin’,
the way they always do
When you’re ridin’ 16 hours,
and there’s nothin’ much to do
And you don’t feel much like ridin’,
you just wish the trip was through

(chorus)

Here I am, on the road again,
there I am, up on the stage
There I go, playin’ star again,
there I go, turn the page

So you walk into this restaurant,
uh 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
Yeah, most times you can’t hear ‘em talk,
other times you can

All the same old clich�’s,
is it woman, is it man
And you always seem outnumbered,
you don’t dare make a stand
Make your stand

(chorus)
Ah But here I am, on the road again,
there I am, up on the stage
Here I go, ah playin’ star again,
there I go, turn the page
Woah

Out there in the spotlight,
you’re a million miles away
Every ounce of energy,
you try and give away
As the sweat pours out your body,
like the music that you play

Later in the evenin’,
as you lie awake in bed
With the echoes of the amplifiers,
ringin’ in your head
You smoke the day’s last cigarette,
rememberin’ what she said

What she said

Yeah, and here I am,
on the road again,
there I am, up on that stage
Here I go, playin’ star again,
there I go, turn the page
And there I go, turn that page

There I go, yeah, Here I go, yeah, yeah
There I go, yeah, Here I go, yeah
Here I go-oh-o, There I go
And I’m gone