Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: April 21, 1987

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell

Well, it can get you in the back, boy
Or you can lie around in roses
Or maybe walk around wondering
You know, going through the motions

Hey, ain't love strange?
Oh, ain't love strange?
Boy, talk about changes
Oh, ain't love strange?

Well, it can make you string barbed-wire
Around your little piece of ground
Yeah, for emotional protection
Oh, but it's too late now

Hey, ain't love strange?
Oh, ain't love strange?
Boy, talk about changes
Oh, ain't love strange?

Some keep trying it
Giving and denying it
And I don't know why it is
I guess you never quit
Trying to make sense of it

Oh, because it can feel like perfection
But never all the time
But you don't want to be alone again
Oh, my, my

Hey, ain't love strange?
Oh, ain't love strange?
Boy, talk about changes
Oh, ain't love strange?

Ain't love strange?
Oh, ain't love strange?
Boy, talk about lonely
Hey, ain't love strange?

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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