Released: May 5, 1981

Songwriter: Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell

Producer: Jimmy Iovine Tom Petty

[Verse 1]
It's going to be another hard night, you want to take it all alone
You want to face up to the trouble
You want to face up to your soul
And baby you can have it any way you want it
You just get a little lost from time to time
Sometimes it gets a little crazy somewhere down inside

[Chorus 1]
But you can still change your mind
You can change your feelings
You can change your mind

[Verse 2]
Everybody wants all the world can give 'em
Everybody wants to get all they can get
Everybody's waiting on something that hasn't come yet
And you can hide it for a little while honey
You can try and just lose it for a while
Then it's going to do something to you somewhere down inside

[Chorus 1]
But you can still change your mind
You can change your feelings
You can change your mind

[Bridge]
Yeah, and it gets harder by the minute, girl
Oh, it gets harder every day
Listen to me darling, oh, you don't have to wait
It's alright

[Chorus 2]
You can still change your mind
You can change your feelings
Just hold tight, everything's going to be alright
If you can change your mind
You can change your feeling

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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