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What Are You Doin’ In My Life?Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: October 19, 1979

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Jimmy Iovine Tom Petty

[Verse 1]
Well, you followed me all around New York City
Trying to make people think I wanted you with me
I can only hope that they didn't believe you
I can't figure out why I got to deal with you

[Chorus]
What are you doing in my life?
What are you doing in my life?
What are you doing in my life?
I didn't ask for you

[Verse 2]
I don't know how you got my telephone number
Probably some jerk trying to put me under
Some friend of a friend of a friend of mine
Baby, who you trying to fool when you tell those lies?

[Chorus]
What are you doing in my life?
What are you doing in my life?
What are you doing in my life?
I didn't ask for you

[Bridge]
Well, this is all a little too much to believe
You're putting my name all around in the street
Honey, where did you think this was going to lead?
Baby, will you tell me what you want from me?

[Guitar Solo]
Oh!

[Bridge]
Well, this is all a little too much to believe
You're putting my name all around in the street
Honey, where did you think this was going to lead?
Baby, will you tell me what you want from me?

[Verse 3]
Well, you're the last woman in the world that thrills me
Now you got my girlfriend trying to kill me
Honey, my friends think that I've gone crazy
Can't you figure out that you ain't my baby?

[Chorus]
What are you doing in my life?
What are you doing in my life?
What are you doing in my life?
I didn't ask for you

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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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