Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: September 28, 2018

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Mike W. Campbell Tom Petty Jeff Lynne

How can you walk away
How can you look away
How can you run away
And make me feel bad

Hear what I have to say
Hear what I have to say
How can you look away
And make me so sad

Please don’t treat me like a stranger
No don’t treat me like a stranger
I knew you so well
You never can tell
Don’t treat me like a stranger

She was a friend of mine
Such a good a friend of mine
She was a friend of mine
And now it’s all over

And I don’t know why that is
And I don’t know what went wrong
I’ll fight like a tiger
If you put me in a corner

(Chorus) 2x

What am I supposed to say
What am I supposed to do
What’s left of me to say
If you don’t know me

That’s just the way it is
That’s just the way things go
If you’re so all alone
Why don’t you show me

(Chorus)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – an L.A.-based gang of sharp-dressed garage-rock refugees from Gainsville, Florida – released their debut LP in November 1976, featuring two tracks which are now part of their long list of hits, “Breakdown” and “American Girl.”

Since that first LP in ‘76, the band’s style has epitomized and largely defined the American “heartland rock” movement – a vintage-guitar twang, hard lyric truth, and searing vocal attitude.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been nominated for 17 Grammy awards and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling bands of all-time.

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