Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: July 2, 1991

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Jeff Lynne Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell

[Verse 1]
When the time gets right, I'm gonna pick you up
And take you far way from trouble, my love
Under a big ol' sky out in a field of green
There's gotta be something left for us to believe

[Chorus]
Oh, I await the day
Good fortune comes our way
And we ride down the Kings Highway

[Verse 2]
No, you can't hide out in a six-gun town
We wanna hold our heads up, but we gotta stay down
I don't wanna end up in a room all alone
Don't wanna end up someone that I don't even know

[Chorus]
Lover, I await the day
Good fortune comes our way
And we ride down the Kings Highway

Yeah, I await the day
Good fortune comes our way
And we ride down the Kings Highway

Yeah, I await the day
Good fortune comes our way
And we ride down the Kings Highway

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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