Greatest Hits

Tom Petty Greatest Hits Lyrics
1.American Girl

Well she was an american girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, an d if she had to die
Tryin' she had one little promise
She was gonna keep

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an american girl

It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' in the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an american girl


2.Breakdown

It's all right if you love me
It's al l right if you don't
I'm not afraid of you runnin' away
Honey, i get the feelin' you won't

There is no sense in pretendin'
Your eyes give you give away
Something inside you is feelin' like i do
We've said all there is to say

Baby, breakdown, go ahead give it to me
Breakdown, honey take me through the night
Breakdown, i'm standing here, can you see?
Breakdown, it's all right
It's all right
It's all right

Breakdown, go ahead give it to me
Breakdown, honey take me through the night
Breakdown, i'm standing here, can you see?
Breakdown, it's all right
It's all right
It's all right


3.Don't Come Around Here No More

hey! don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more
Whatever you're looking for
Hey! don't come around here no more

I've given up, stop. i 've given up, stop.
I've given up, stop. on waiting any longer
I've given up, on this love getting stronger

Don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more

I don't feel you anymore
You darken my door
Whatever you're looking for
Hey, don't come around here no more

I've given up, stop. i've given up, stop.
I've given up, stop. you tangle my emotions
I've given up, honey please admit it's over

Hey! don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more

Stop walking down my street
Don't come around here no more
Who did you expect to meet?
Don't come around here no more
Whatever you're looking for
Hey! don't come around here no more
Hey! honey please, don't come around here no more
Whatever you're looking for
Ah, oh, ah, ah.
Don't come around here no more


4.Don't Do Me Like That

I was talking with a friend of mine,
Said a woma n had hurt his pride
Told him that she loved him so
And turned around and let him go
Then he said, 'you better watch your step,
Or your gonna get hurt yourself
Someone's gonna tell you lies,
Cut you down to size'

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if i love you baby?
Don't do me like that

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
Someday i might need you baby
Don't do me like that

Listen honey, can you see?
Baby, you would bury me
If you were in the public eye
Givin' someone else a try
And you know you better watch your step
Or you're gonna get hurt yourself
Someone's gonna tell you lies,
Cut you down to size

Don 't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if i love you baby?
Don't, don't, don't, don't...

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if i need you baby?
Don't do me like that

'cause somewhere deep down inside
Someone is saying, 'love doesn't last that long.'
I got this feelin' inside night and day
And now i can't take it no more

Listen honey, can you see?
Baby, you would bury me
If you were in the public eye
Givin' someone else a try
And you know you better watch your step
Or you're gonna get hurt yourself
Someone's gonna tell you lies,
Cut you down to size

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if i love you baby ?
Don't, don't, don't, don't...

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
I just might need you honey
Don't do me like that

Wait!
Don't do me like that.
Don't do me like that.
Baby, baby, baby,
Don't, do n't, don't...

No!
Don't do me like that.
Don't do me like that.
Baby, baby, baby...

Oh, oh, oh...


5.Even The Losers

Well, it was nearly all summer we sat on your roof
Yeah, we smoked cigarettes and we stared at the moon
And i'd show you stars you never could see
Baby, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me

Baby, time meant n othing, anything seemed real
Yeah, you could kiss like fire and you made me feel
Like every word you said was meant to be
No, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me

Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes
Even the lo sers keep a little bit of pride
They get lucky sometimes

Two cars parked on the overpass,
Rocks hit the water like broken glass
I should have known right then it was too good to last
God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes
Even the losers keep a little bit of pride
They get lucky sometimes

Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes
Even the losers keep a little bit of pride
Yeah, they get lucky sometimes

Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes
Even the losers get lucky sometimes

Even the losers get lucky sometimes
Even the losers get lucky sometimes
Even the losers get lucky sometimes


6.Free Fallin'

She's a good girl, loves her mam a
Loves jesus and america too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too

It's a long day living in reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And i'm a bad boy cause i don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

And i'm free, free fallin'
Yeah i'm free, free fallin'

All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down ventura boulevard
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
A ll the good girls are home with broken hearts

And i'm free, free fallin'
Yeah i'm free, free fallin'
Free fallin', now i'm free fallin', now i'm
Free fallin', now i'm free fallin', now i'm

I wanna glide down over mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
Gonna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for a while

And i'm free, free fallin'
Yeah i'm free, free fallin'


7.Here Comes My Girl

You know , sometimes, i don't know why,
But this old town just seems so hopeless
I ain't really sure, but it seems i remember the good times
Were just a little bit more in focus

But when she puts her arms around me,
I can, somehow, rise ab ove it
Yeah man, when i got that little girl standing right by my side,
You know, i can tell the whole wide world, 'shove it,'

Hey, here comes my girl, here comes my girl,
Yeah, she looks so right, she's all i need tonight

Every now and then, i get down to the end of a day,
I'll have to stop, ask myself, 'what've i done?'
It just seems so useless to have to work so hard,
And nothin' ever really seem to come from it

And then she looks m e in the eye, says, 'we gonna last
forever,'
And man, you know i can't begin to doubt it
No, because this feels so good and so free and so right,
I know we ain't never goin' change our minds about it

Hey, here comes my girl, here comes my girl,
Yeah, she looks so right, she's all i need tonight

Yeah, every time it seems like there ain't nothin' left no more,
I find myself havin' to reach out and grab hold of somethin'
Yeah, i just catch myself wonderin', waitin', worryin'
About some silly little things that don't add up to nothin'.

And then she looks me in the eye, says, 'we gonna last forever,'
And man, you know i can't begin to doubt it
No, because this feels so good and so free and so right,
I know we ain't never goin' change our minds about it.

Hey, here comes my girl, here comes my girl,
Yeah, she looks so right, she's all i need tonight


8.Into The Great Wide Open

eddie waited till he finished high school
He went to hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
The future was wide open

They moved into a place they both could afford
He found a nightclub he could work at the door
She had a guitar and she taught him some chords
The sky was the limit

Into the great wide open,
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open,
A rebel without a clue

The papers said ed always played from the heart
He got an agent and a roadie named bart
They made a record and it went in the charts
T he sky was the limit

His leather jacket had chains that would jingle
They both met movie stars, partied and mingled
Their a&r man said 'i don't hear a single'
The future was wide open

Into the great wide open,
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open,
A rebel without a clue

Into the great wide open,
Under them skies of blue
Into the great wide open,
A rebel without a clue


9.I Need To Know

Well the talk on the street
Says you might go solo
A good friend of mine saw you leavin' by the back door

I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave
Then you better say so
I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)
Because i don't know how long
I can hold on
And if your makin' me wait
If you're leadin' me on
I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)

Who woulda thought
That you'd fall for his line
All of a sudden it's
Me on the outside

I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave
Then you better say so
I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)
Because i don't know how long
I can hold on
And if your makin' me wait
If you're leadin' me on
I ne ed to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)

I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave
Then you better say so
I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know( i need to know)
Because i don't know how long
I can hold on
And if your makin' me wait
If you're leadin' me on
I need to know(i need to know)
I need to know(i need to know)


10.I Won't Back Down

well i won't back down, no i won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But i won't back down

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
And i'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and i won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey i will stand my ground
And i won't back down.

Well i know what's right, i got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But i'll stand my ground and i won't back down

Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
Hey i will stand my ground
And i won't back down
No, i won't back down


11.Learning To Fly

Well i started out down a dirty r oad
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as i crossed the hill
The town lit up the world got still

I'm learning to fly but i ain't got wings
Comin' down is the hardest thing

Well the good old days may not return
And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn

I'm learning to fly but i ain't got wings
Comin' down is the hardest thing

Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So i started out for god kno ws where
But i guess i'll know when i get there

I'm learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down

I'm learning to fly but i ain't got wings
Comin' down is the hardest thing
I'm learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down

I'm learning to fly
I'm learning to fly


12.Listen To Her Heart

You think you're gonna take her away
With your money and your cocaine
Keep thinkin' that mind is gonna change
But i know everything is okay

She's gonna listen to her heart
It's gonna tell her what to do
She might need a lot of loving
But she don't need you

You want me to think that i'm being used
You want her to think it's over
You can't see it doesn't matter what you do
Buddy, you don't even know her

She's gonna listen to her heart
It's gonna tell her what to do
She might need a lot of loving
But she don't need you


13.Mary Jane's Last Dance

She grew up in an indiana town
Had a good lookin' momma who never was around
But she grew up tall and she grew up right
With them indiana boys on an indiana night

Well she moved down here at the age of 18
She blew the boys away, it was more than they'd se en
I was introduced and we both started groovin'
She said, 'i dig you baby but i got to keep movin''
...on, keep movin' on

Last dance with mary jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and i'm
Tired of this town again

Well i don't know what i've been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
I'm tired of screwing up, i'm tired of goin' down
I'm tire of myself, i'm tired of this town
Oh my my, oh hell yes
Honey put on that party dress
Buy me a drink, sing me a song,
Take me as i come 'cause i can't stay long

Last dance with mary jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and i'm
Tired of this town again

T here's pidgeons down in market square
She's standin' in her underwear
Lookin' down from a hotel room
Nightfall will be comin' soon
Oh my my, oh hell yes
You've got to put on that party dress
It was too cold to cry when i woke up al one
I hit the last number, i walked to the road

Last dance with mary jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and i'm
Tired of this town again


14.Refugee

We got some thin' we both know it,
We don't talk too much about it
Ain't no real big secret, all the same,
Somehow we get around it

Listen, it don't really matter to me
Baby, you believe what you wanna believe
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have
Kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there,
Revel in your abandon

Honey, it don't make no difference to me
Baby, everybody's had to fight to be fre e
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee
No baby, you don't have to live like a refugee

Baby, we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this ain't real to you
It's one of those things you got to feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have
Kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped,
Tied-up, taken away, and held for ransom

Honey, it don't really matter to me
Baby, everybody's ha d to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee
No, you don't have to live like a refugee
Baby, you don't have to live like a refugee


15.Runnin' Down A Dream

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
I had the radio on, i was drivin'
The trees went by, me and del were singin'
Little runaway, i was flyin'

Yeah runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
I'm runnin' down a dream

I felt so good, like anything was possible
I hit cruise control and rubbed eyes
The last three days the rain was unstoppabl e
It was always cold, no sun shine

Yeah runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
I'm runnin' down a dream

I rolled on as the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
There's something good waitin' down this road
I'm pickin' up whatever is mine

Yeah runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
I'm runnin' down a dream


16.Something In The Air

call out the instigator
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here

And you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Run through the fields and houses
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here

And you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Call out the instigator
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here

And you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now


17.The Waiting

Oh baby don't it feel like heaven right now
Don't it feel like somethin' from a dream
Yeah i've never known nothing quite like this
Don't it feel like tonight might never be again
We know better than to try and pretend
Baby no one could have ever told me 'bout this

The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part

Well yeah i might have chased a couple of women around
All it ever got me was down
Then there were those that made me feel good
But never as good as i feel right now
Baby you're the only one that's ever known how
To make me wanna live like i wanna live now

The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more ca rd
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part

Don't let it kill you baby, don't let it get to you
Don't let 'em kill you baby, don't let 'em get to you
I'll be your breathin' heart, i'll be your cryin' fool
Don't let this go to far, don't let it get to you


18.You Got Lucky

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
Go...yeah, go
But remember

Good love is hard to find
Good love is hard to find
You got lucky, babe
You got lucky, babe
When i found you

You put a hand on my cheek
And then you turn your eyes away
If you don't feel complete
If i don't take you all of the way
Then go, yeah, go,
But remember

Good love is hard to find
Good love is hard to find
You got lucky, babe
You got lucky, babe
When i found you

Yeah go,
Just, go,
But remember
Good love is hard to find
Good love is hard to find
You got lucky, babe
You got lucky, babe
When i found you