Released: May 2, 1978
Songwriter: Tom Petty
Producer: Tom Petty Noah Shark Denny Cordell
[Verse 1]
Well, the talk on the street says you might go solo
Good friend of mine saw you leavin' by your back door
[Chorus]
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave, then you better say so
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Because I don't know how long I can hold on
If you're making me wait, if you're leadin' me on
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
[Verse 2]
Who would've thought that you'd fall for his line
All of a sudden, it's me on the outside
[Chorus]
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave, then you better say so
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Because I don't know how long I can hold on
If you're making me wait, if you're leadin' me on
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
[Chorus]
Baby, I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave, then you better say so
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Because I don't know how long I can hold on
If you're making me wait, if you're leadin' me on
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Baby, I need to know
Well, the talk on the street says you might go solo
Good friend of mine saw you leavin' by your back door
[Chorus]
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave, then you better say so
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Because I don't know how long I can hold on
If you're making me wait, if you're leadin' me on
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
[Verse 2]
Who would've thought that you'd fall for his line
All of a sudden, it's me on the outside
[Chorus]
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave, then you better say so
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Because I don't know how long I can hold on
If you're making me wait, if you're leadin' me on
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
[Chorus]
Baby, I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
If you think you're gonna leave, then you better say so
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Because I don't know how long I can hold on
If you're making me wait, if you're leadin' me on
I need to know (I need to know)
I need to know (I need to know)
Baby, I need to know
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- Angel Dream (No. 2)
- Room at the Top
- Into the Great Wide Open
- Dreamville
- I Should Have Known It
- I Need to Know
- American Dream Plan B
- The Last DJ
- Scare Easy
- Square One
- Breakdown
- Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
- Trailer
- I Forgive It All
- Hungry No More
- For Real
- Jammin’ Me
- Don’t Come Around Here No More
- I Won’t Back Down
- Refugee
- Here Comes My Girl
- Don’t Do Me Like That
- You Don’t Know How It Feels
- Learning to Fly
- American Girl
- The Waiting
- Free Fallin’
- Even the Losers
- Runnin’ Down a Dream
- Wildflowers
- You Wreck Me
- Southern Accents
- Saving Grace
- Listen to Her Heart
- You Got Lucky
- The Best Of Everything (Alternate Version)
- You’re Gonna Get It! (1978)
- Pack Up the Plantation: Live! (1985)
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits (1993) (1993)
- Playback (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) (1995)
- Anthology Through The Years (2000)
- Rock Band 3 Setlist (2010)
- The Best of Everything (2019)
- Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- Learning to Fly
- American Girl
- The Waiting
- Breakdown
- Refugee
- Into the Great Wide Open
- You Got Lucky
- Here Comes My Girl
- Don’t Come Around Here No More
- Walls (Circus)
- Even the Losers
- Insider
- Don’t Do Me Like That
- Rebels
- It’ll All Work Out
- Christmas All Over Again
- Swingin’
- Southern Accents
- Listen to Her Heart
- I Need to Know
- Room at the Top
- A Face in the Crowd
- Jammin’ Me