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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 and the Heartbreakers – Good Enough
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[Verse 1] / She was hell on her mama / Impossible to please / She wore out her daddy / Got the best of me / And there's something about her / That only I can see / And that's good
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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 – Southern Accents
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The fourth track on the album of the same name, “Southern Accents” closes out Side A with the story of a drifting, alcoholic Southerner. This song was most notably covered by
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Jammin' Me
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“Jammin' Me” was written by guitarist Mike Campbell a while before Tom Petty added lyrics to it with Bob Dylan as the two looked through newspaper headlines.
It was released as
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Here Comes My Girl
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“Here Comes My Girl” began as one of two songs written in the same week by guitarist Mike Campbell. Petty originally couldn’t find a good way to sing the verses, eventually “half-
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Joe
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My name's Joe, I'm the CEO / Yeah I'm the man makes the big wheels roll / I'm the hand on the green-light switch / You get to be famous, I get to be rich / Go get me a kid with a
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don't Do Me Like That
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“Don’t Do Me Like That” was released in November 1979 as the first single from the album Damn the Torpedoes (1979). It reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band’s
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Nightwatchman
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[Chorus 1] / I'm the nightwatchman / I make the rounds / I'm the nightwatchman / I gotta keep my nose to the ground / [Verse 1] / Oh, this ain't no job for a man like me / Yeah, I
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Finding Out
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There's something wrong, I can't get my finger on it / I must be looking over something / Sometimes at night, I've had to fight with this emptiness / It's been so hard to see there
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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 – Hometown Blues
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[Verse 1] / Baby can't wait, baby got to go / Got to do a number on a late night show / Do a little song, do a little dance / Going to make the best of her big chance / [Chorus
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – A One Story Town
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I'm for standing up, I'm breaking free / I don't want fate handed down to me / Yeah I'm for moving on to try another town / Time ain't changing nothing, take a look around / Oh, I'
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Listen to Her Heart
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In this song Petty is describing the battle for his Being as he becomes rich and famous.
Money and fame often lead people to, involuntarily, abandon their character and become a
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Built to Last
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[Verse 1] / Somewhere out my doorway / Somewhere down my block / I can hear her heartbeat in rhythm with my clock / [Verse 2] / I want her more than diamonds / I want her more than
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Deliver Me
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Every woman and every man / Knows the feeling so well / Those times when the heart just can't understand / The times when you never can tell / So deliver me, deliver me / Baby
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Magnolia
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From a table across the room / She was signaling me with her eyes / I walked over to be introduced / I said hello, she just smiled / And said I know a place not too far from here
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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 and the Heartbreakers – The Same Old You
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Hey, I remember you back in '72 / With your David Bowie hair and your platform shoes / Your part-time job selling fast food / But out on the street, you was nobody's fool / Baby
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – I Need to Know
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“I Need To Know” kicks off the second side of Tom Petty’s sophomore record You’re Gonna Get It!. It was also released as the album’s lead single and became his second song to
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – High In the Morning
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Boy, that bottle belongs to the devil / Better leave it on the shelf / Could be the old man wants it for himself / Well, it hurts my heart to see a young man fall / Hurt me to my
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Billy the Kid
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Well, I heard you in the back room / Your friends had a laugh on me / Passed my name through the cantina / Yeah, your face was hard to read / Something in your demeanor / Should
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Wesley Willis – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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This man and his rock band played at United Center / About 20,000 rock fans were at the rock show / The rock jam set was awesome / It whipped a two-humped Bactrian camel's ass
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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 – You and I Will Meet Again
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[Verse 1] / You and I will meet again / When we're least expecting it / Somewhere in some far-off place / I will recognize your face / I won't say goodbye, my friend / For you and
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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 – 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 – Straight into Darkness
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There was a little girl, I used to know her / I still think about her time to time / There was a moment when I really loved her / Then one day the feeling just died / We went
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – The Criminal Kind
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[Verse 1] / You got a criminal mind, you got criminal looks / Boy, you better look out or you're going to get hooked / Don't you ever feel guilty when you come up short? / Man you
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)
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[Verse 1] / She laughed in my face, told me goodbye / 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
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Refugee
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Around the release of the Heartbreakers' third LP, Petty declared:
We’re always hearing that we’re the future of rock & roll, I don’t want to be the future – I want to be the
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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 – Mary Jane's Last Dance
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“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” is a song written by Tom Petty and recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was recorded on July 22, 1993 while Petty was
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – You Got Lucky
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[Intro] / One, two / [Verse 1] / You better watch what you say / You better watch what you do to me / Don't get carried away / Girl, if you can do better than me / [Pre-Chorus
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Century City
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This song is the fifth track on 1979’s “Damn The Torpedoes”. On an album full of hits, this wasn’t the biggest track, closing out the first side of the record. The song details the
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – The Red Rooster (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I have a little red rooster / He's too lazy to crow for day / I have a little red rooster / He's too lazy to crow for day / Keep everything in the farm yard / Upset in
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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 and the Heartbreakers – When the Time Comes
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This might sound strange, might seem dumb / Depends on the side that you take it in from / Depends on the time, depends on the day / Depends on a lot of things, who can say / I
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – You Can Still Change Your Mind
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[Verse 1] / It's gonna be another hard night, you wanna take it all alone / You wanna face up to the trouble / You wanna face up to your soul / And baby you can have it any way you
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Grew Up Fast
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[Verse 1] / We grew up fast / And no one seemed to notice / We grew up fast / And we grew up alone / Mom and Dad / Were never what we wanted / We grew up fast / And we grew up
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – It Ain't Nothin' to Me
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We got a man on the moon (it ain't nothin' to me) / We got more comin' soon (it ain't nothin' to me) / Got natives in New Guinea with gold in their teeth / Might mean somethin' to
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – A Wasted Life
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I know you're walking down a lonely street / I know you can't get out of the heat / Baby, it's alright, don't have a wasted life / I know you have to feel a little used up / And no
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Dogs On the Run
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Well we come with what was on our backs / Yeah, when the leaves had died and all turned black / Back when the wind was cold and blew them around / When we laid our blankets on the
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – All Or Nothin'
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[Verse 1] / Your daddy was a Sergeant Major / You didn't wanna, but he made you / Wipe his brass from time to time / It left a picture in your mind / You know? You know? / [Chorus
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Mary's New Car
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Mary got a brand new car / Mary got a brand new set of wheels / Now everyone here is so charged / Man, you don't know how good it feels / And we want to go where she goes / We want
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Dreamville
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[Verse 1] / Going down to Lillian's music store / To buy a black diamond string / Gonna wind it up on my guitar / Gonna make that silver sing / [Chorus] / Like it was Dreamville
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