The Fire Down Below Lyrics

Lyric discussion by thegitsfan 

Cover art for The Fire Down Below lyrics by Bob Seger

...about Bob not excusing it. But I always wondered in the "Somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right" line was referring to pimps or johns. Maybe it's both.

"When it all gets too heavy, that's when they come and go" is saying that these men have problems with life and they seek prostitutes. The section about not "treatin' somebody right" could be life mistreating these men and using this to support his belief that "one thing's for certain, it ain't never gonna stop."

I agree with janeaparis1, but I'll add that if a man is getting what he wants from his wife/girlfriend, etc, that he probably won't seek the services of a prostitute. So whether it's life, or his partner not treating him right, he's using a prostitute to escape, if only for a short time. They don't call it the world's oldest profession for nothing, and "it ain't never gonna stop."