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Tom Petty:
American girl
The apartment song
Breakdown
The best of everything
A change of heart
Depending on you
A face in the crowd
Feel a whole lot better
I won't back down
In the dark of the sun
Into the great white open
Learning to fly
Love is a long road
Rebels
Running down a dream
Southern accents
The waiting
Yer so bad
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~Title: BREAKDOWN (Tom Petty)
Its alright if you love me,
Its alright if you don't
I'm not afraid of you runnin away honey,
I got this feeling you won't
Say there aint no use in pretending,
Your eyes give you away
Something inside you is feeling like I do,
We said all there is to say
Breakdown go ahead and give it to me
Breakdown take me through the night
Breakdown go ahead give it to me,
Breakdown its alright,
/ /
its alright its alright
DEPENDING ON YOU - Petty
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I ain't never gonna let you down
All you gotta do is trust me
I would never make you some clown
Baby why won't you trust me
You give up so easily I don't know why you can't see
I'm depending on you, don't let me down
I'm depending on you
Baby if you can't change the world
Maybe you should just change yourself
You used to be such a sweet young girl
Why you wanna be someone else?
You give up so easily
I don't know why you can't see
I'm depending on you
Is it to late now
I'm depending on you
I WON'T BACK DOWN - Petty
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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
AE
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down
EA
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 keep 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
And I won't back down
No I wont't back down
LOVE IS A LONG ROAD - Petty
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Intro: B AE E DA B DA E DA
There was a girl in town
She said she cared about me
She tried to make my world
The way she tought it should be
Yeah we were desperate then
To have each other to hold
But love is a long, long road
There were so many times
I would wake up at noon
With my head spinning 'round
I would wait for the moon
And give her one more chance
To try and save my soul
But love is a long, long road
Yeah it was hard to give up
Some things are hard to let go
Somethings are never enough
I guess I only can hope
For maybe one more chance
To try and save my soul
But love is a long, long road
RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM - Petty
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It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
I had the radio on. I was drivin'
Trees flew by, me and Del was singin' little runaway
I was flyin'
CHORUS
Yeah I'm runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
Runnin' down a dream
I felt so good like anything was possible
I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
The last tree days the rain was un-stoppable
It was always cold, no sunshine
CHORUS
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's mine
CHORUS
THE WAITING - Petty
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Intro goes like this:
chords:
2xO23x
xO223O
Baby Dont It Feal Like H
heaven right now Dont it Feal Like sin Dream Yeah
Ive never Known nothin Quite like This Dont it
Feal like tonight Might never be again Baby
We know better than to try and pretend honey
no one could a ever told me bout this I said yeah yeah(yeah yeah)
yeah yeah yeah The
wait-ing is the hardest part
every day ya see one more card you take it on faith you
take it to the heart the wait ing is the hardest part
YER SO BAD - Petty
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|v My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
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|s took him for all he was worth
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|1 now she's a swinger, dating a singer
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|- I can't decide which is worse
pre-
chorus but not me baby, I've got you to save me
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|h oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had
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|r
|u in a world gone mad, yer so bad
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| My sister's ex-husband can't get no lovin'
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|r walks around dog-faced and hurt
|s
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| now he's got nothin', head in the oven
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|- I can't decide which is worse
THE APARTMENT SONG - Petty
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I used to live in a two-room apartment
Neighbors knockin' on my wall
Times were hard I don't wanna knock it
I don't miss it much at all
CHORUS
Oh yeah I'm alright I just feel a little lonely tonight
I'm okay most of the time I just feel a little lonely tonight
I used to need your love so badly
Then I came to live with it
Lately I get a faraway feeling
And the whole thing starts again
(CHORUS and 2nd verse)
~Title: FEEL A WHOLE LOT BETTER (Byrds,Gene Clark)
1964
The reason why, Oh I can't say
I had to let you go babe, And right away
After what you did, I can't stay on
And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
When you're gone
Baby for a long time, You had me believe
That your love was all mine, And that's the way it would be
But I didn't know, That you were puttin' me on
And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
When you're gone, Oh when you're gone
Now I got to say, That it's not like before
And I'm not gonna play, You're game any more
After what you did, I can't stay on
And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
When you're gone
I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
When you're gone, Oh when you're gone
Oh when you're gone
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In the Dark of the Sun - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, from the
"Into the Great Wide Open" album
Intro:
In the dark of the sun
Will you save me a place
Give me hope, Give me comfort
Get me to a better place
Saw you sail across a river
Underneath Orion's sword
In your eyes there was a freedom
I had never known before
Chorus:
Hey yeah yeah
In the dark of the sun
We will stand together
Yeah we will stand as one
Oh in the dark of the sun
(Solo)
Past my days of great confusion
Past my days of wondering why
Will I sail into the heavens
Constellations in my eyes
Chorus (X2)
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A Change Of Heart - Tom Petty
Intro Riff -
This is played twice as - C GG A G F C GG AG G with muted strums
after the C GG's
VERSE
Well I fought for you
I fought too hard
to do it all again babe,
its gone to far
You never needed me
You only wanted me around
It gets me down
CHORUS
There's been a change,
yeah there's been a change of heart
Said there's been a change
You push just a little too far
You make it just a little to hard
Theres been a change of heart
I'll get over you
It won't take long
I've stood in yer gallery
seen what's hang'in from the wall
You were the moon and sun,
Yer just a loaded gun now
It get's me down
+ CHORUS +
BRIDGE
Whoa yeah, oh boy
Looks like we finally found the turning point
Oh me, oh my
Looks like its time for me to kiss it goodbye, yeah kiss it goodbye
+ CHORUS +
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A Face In The Crowd - Tom Petty
it goes something like this :-
Before All of this ever went down
in another place, another town
you were just a face in the crowd
you were just a face in the crowd
out in the street walking around a face in the crowd
out of a dream, out of the sky
into my heart, into my life
And you were just a face in the crowd
out in the street, thinking out loud
A face in the crowd
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INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN by TOM PETTY from the album of same name
The intro and first few bars of the verse seem to be the following:
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e---0-----------------
b---0----------------- The chord names are probably a bit
g---0----------------- dodgy but - hey. If you play this
d---2----1---0-------- on an acoustic 12 string (like TP's
a---2----2---2---4---- nice Martin one ...) it sounds ok.
e---0----0---0---0----
?
Eddie waited till he finished high school
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He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
The future was wide open.
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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
GD
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.
(instrum: play the intro riff and end with G then A - I think)
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
The 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
Out in the great wide open, a rebel without a clue.
final flourish: .
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This is a pretty simple one 1 guitar plays the simple chord pattern
The other guitar plays this little riff:
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-2-0----0---0-0---0-------------2-0--0-0-0---0----0-----------------------
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