Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: July 29, 2014

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell Ryan Ulyate

Yeah!

I was walking down the street the other day
A woman stopped me
She said: why are you looking so down in the mouth?
And I told her
This is a burnt out town
It's full of dirty looks
There's ashes on Main Street
And the mayor is cooking the books
Even my best friends
Are turning into crooks

Yeah this is the burnt out town
New Emperor, same clothes
They dancing on glass ceilings
While the filthy money flows
Yes and here I am stealing gas, with a garden hose

Yeah!
Take that, honey!

This is a burnt out town
The city fathers have come to blows
It's out of their realm of reality
The truth's indecent when exposed

Yeah, it's the burnt out town
It's going down but no one knows
Yeah, it's the burnt out town
Ain't dead but getting close

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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