Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: April 13, 1999

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Rick Rubin Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell

She's a lonely girl lost in the world
Got love in her eyes for me
She's a sweet young thing
Brings me dreams in a box she made for me

Lonesome sundown
This is gonna be hard
It's a lonesome sundown
This is gonna be hard
I know, so don't let go
This is gonna be hard

I'll never let you down
This love I've found, it means too much to me
And I stand accused outside the law
But you are all I need

Lonesome sundown
This is gonna be hard
It's a lonesome sundown
This is gonna be hard
I know, so don't let go
This is gonna be hard

Redemption comes to those who wait
Forgiveness is the key
And I wish you love and I wish you hope
Please believe in me

Lonesome sundown
This is gonna be hard
It's a lonesome sundown
This is gonna be hard
I know, so don't let go
This is gonna be hard

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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