"Night Moves" is a song that gets better with age.

never paid much attention to it until later in life when i realized it was about getting laid.

And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

I can't ever listen to it without thinking about the finale of American Pop.

Stood alone on a mountain top
Starin' out at the Great Divide
I could go east, I could go west
It was all up to me to decide
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin'
And my soul began to rise

Against the Wind was always my favorite, but Night Moves is a close 2nd.

Not everyone can relate to the corn field, it's ok

One of my favorites. Great article on the writing of this song from the Wall Street Journal in 2015.

Creating Bob Seger's "Night Moves"

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We’d all go out in some farmer’s field in Ann Arbor and dance. One guy had an upside-down record player in his car that he’d attach to the battery and everyone would play their favorite 45s. That’s where I got, “Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy.” I actually had a ’62, but ’60 sang better. There are two references to “points” in the first verse: shoes and bosom. Back then we wore Ban-Lon shirts, tight jeans and pointed boots like the black musicians wore on stage. And I did have a dark-haired girlfriend, Italian. We were using each other. Trying things out. What can I say? Night moves! The song was sexy, but in a subtle way. I really liked the title because it was two-edged. It had a duality to it. “Workin’ on our night moves”—our moves with girls—and “Ain’t it funny how the night moves”—what you remember as you’re getting older.

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I always loved the "slow verse" near the end. Great description of how that came to be thanks to The Boss!

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What broke me free was listening to Bruce Springsteen’s album “Born to Run.” On the last song, “Jungleland,” he did the bridge and slowed down the last verse, but it’s not the same chords as the first. Almost like a double bridge. I said, “Wow, OK, that’ll be my structure.” In there is the line, “Started humming a song from 1962.” The song I was thinking about is “Be My Baby,” sung by Ronnie Spector. I always loved her voice.

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The region hasn't changed that much, I can relate to the song pretty well.
Kinda reminds me of home when I hear it, like Mellencamp's Scarecrow

It could never be released today and It would never be written today . Way too blunt about men and women and what really makes us tick for our hysterically phony culture.

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Against the Wind was always my favorite, but Night Moves is a close 2nd.

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Still the Same is my top Seger song.