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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – The Waiting
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“The Waiting” is the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Hard Promises released in 1981. The song peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Breakdown
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“Breakdown” is the first single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut album. It became a Top 40 hit in the United States and Canada.
Played live, Petty
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Tom Petty – Love Is a Long Road
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[Verse 1] / There was a girl I knew / She said she cared about me / She tried to make my world / The way she thought it should be / [Chorus] / Yeah, we were desperate then / To
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Kolby Cooper – Tom Petty
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[Verse 1] / She was my whole world, he was one of my heroes / Well I was always with that girl, and he went everywhere we'd go / All around town and down by the lake / The three of
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Learning to Fly
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The lead single from Petty’s ‘91 effort Into The Great Wide Open, this song was a heavy highlight and led the way for the rest of the album. Featuring the Beatle-like production
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Into the Great Wide Open
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One of Petty’s most vivid story songs chronicling the demise of a guitar-toting “rebel without a clue” who comes to Los Angeles and gets eaten alive by the record industry.
The
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don't Come Around Here No More
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Psychedelic yet synth, classic yet modern, “Don’t Come Around Here No More” was purposefully a radical musical reinvention, according to Petty:
I wanted to make a single that
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Surrender
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Don't talk crazy now / Take it easy / You just can't hold out forever / Don't you lie to me / You said you love me / Don't say you don't remember / 'Cause you told me / Yeah, you
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Tom Petty – Alright for Now
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[Verse 1] / Goodnight baby, sleep tight, my love / May God watch over you from above / Tomorrow I'm working, what would I do? / I'd be lost and lonely if not for you / [Bridge
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Change of Heart
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Petty was trying to write something in the style of ELO songs like “Do Ya.” “I loved the way Jeff Lynne used chords,” Petty said. “That’s how it started, that big crunchy guitar
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Walls (Circus)
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Tom Petty wrote this song for the romantic comedy She’s the One. In fact, Petty wrote almost the entire soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfS6Nl962Qg
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Turning Point
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Black cloud on the sun, I turned my collar up / And walked from your door up to the county road / Oh yeah, what luck, the timing's been rough on us / Right then, oh boy, we hit the
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Tom Petty – Zombie Zoo
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[Verse 1] / All down the street, they're standing in line / With white lipstick and one thing on their minds / Hey little freak with the lunch pail purse / Underneath the paint
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Tom Petty – Crawling Back to You
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[Verse 1] / Waiting by the side of the road / For day to break so we could go / Down into Los Angeles / With dirty hands and worn out knees / [Chorus] / Ooh, I keep crawlin' back
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Tom Petty – Honey Bee
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(Spoken Intro) / Alright, here we go... This a little number we call "Give me some sugar, little honey natural bee" / [Verse 1] / Come on now, give me some sugar / Give me some
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Tom Petty (Ft. Billy Preston, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Jim Capaldi, Mark Mann, Prince, Steve Ferrone, Steve Winwood & Thurston Moore) – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping / Still my guitar gently weeps / I don't know
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Tom Petty – Depending on You
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[Verse 1] / I ain't ever gonna let you down / All you got to do is trust me / I would never make you some clown / Baby, why won't you trust me? / [Chorus 1] / You give up so easily
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Restless
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[Verse 1] / I don't need to belong to no one / I don't belong at all / I got my face in a corner / Got my back to the wall / [Chorus] / Yeah, pretty baby, I'm restless, restless
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Tom Petty – Hard on Me
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[Verse 1] / It's all I can do to keep that little girl smiling / And keep my faith alive / Takes all I got to hold on to tomorrow / And you want to make it hard / You want to make
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Echo
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Put down your things and rest a while / You know we've both nowhere to go / Yeah, Daddy had to crash / He's always halfway there, you know / And no, I don't pretend there's any
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Tom Petty – It's Good to Be King
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[Verse 1] / It's good to be king, if just for a while / To be there in velvet, yeah, to give 'em a smile / It's good to get high and never come down / It's good to be king of your
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Nowhere (Bonus Track)
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Had it all and ya' didn’t know / Hadda' try for a little more / Baby gets me down
, when you lead me 'round / And we come up nowhere / Oh / Well it’s half mine and it’s half yours
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – American Girl
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“American Girl” is the second single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut album. The single did not chart in the U.S., but in the UK it peaked at #40 the week
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Sun June – Tom Petty
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[Verse] / Heard your brother got married / Haven't heard from him lately / I can picture him in a pickup truck blaring Tom Petty / Living some kind of dream that I haven't had
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Insider
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[Verse 1] / You've got a dangerous background / And everything you've dreamed of / Yeah, you're the dark angel / It don't show when you break up / [Pre-Chorus 1] / And I'm the one
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Tom Petty – Time to Move On
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[Chorus] / It's time to move on, time to get going / What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing / But under my feet, baby, grass is growing / It's time to move on, it's time to get
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – The Best Of Everything (Alternate Version)
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[Verse 1] / She probably works in a restaurant / That's what her mama did / But I don't know if she ever really could've put up with it / Or maybe she sings in a nightclub / 'Cause
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Tom Petty – You Wreck Me
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[Verse 1] / Tonight we ride, right or wrong / Tonight we sail, on a radio song / Rescue me, should I go down / If I stay too long in trouble town / [Chorus] / Oh, yeah, you wreck
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Mystery Man
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Don't hide from me baby / Shame on you / Incognito baby you're so crude / I don't mind / Take my hand / Baby I want to be your mystery man / Yeah you got ruby lipstick / Too much
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Rebels
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“Rebels” was a single off of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Southern Accents album in 1985. The song tells the sad story of a man whose alcoholism has dominated his life and
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Room at the Top
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[Verse 1] / I got a room at the top of the world tonight / I can see everything tonight / I got a room where everyone / Can have a drink and forget those things / That went wrong
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Tom Petty – Feel a Whole Lot Better
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[Verse 1] / The reason why, oh, I can't say / I had to let you go, baby, and right away / After what you did, I can't stay on / And I'll probably feel a whole lot better when you'
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – The Best of Everything
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[Verse 1] / She probably works in a restaurant / That's what her mama did / But I don't know if she ever really could've put up with it / Or maybe she sings in a nightclub / 'Cause
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Travelin'
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Well I'm travelin', travelin' baby, travelin' on / Well it's good to see you but I can't stay long / No I've got a travelin' fever, baby, got a travelin' jones / No don't look for
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – We Stand a Chance
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Stand back from me, honey / Because I don't know what I might do next / No I'm surprised by this, frightened by this / Nothing ever got me so out of my head, baby / We stand a
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Tom Petty – Square One
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[Verse 1] / Had to find some higher ground / Had some fear to get around / You can't say what you don't know / Later on won't work no more / Last time through, I hid my tracks / So
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Angel Dream (No. 4)
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[Verse 1] / I dreamed you / I saw your face / Caught my lifeline / When drifting through space / [Chorus 1] / I saw an angel / I saw my faith / I can only thank God it was not too
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Tom Petty – Shadow Of A Doubt (a Complex Kid)
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There goes my baby / There goes my only one / I think she loves me / But she don't wanna let on / Yes, she likes to keep me guessing / She's got me on the fence / With that little
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Tom Petty – A Woman in Love
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She laughed in my face, told me good-bye / Said "Don't think about it, you can go crazy / Anything can happen, anything can end / Don't try to fight it, don't try to save me" / She
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Tom Petty – To Find a Friend
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[Verse 1] / In the middle of his life / He left his wife / And ran off to be bad / Boy, it was sad / [Verse 2] / But he bought a new car / He found a new bar / And went under
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