Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: April 21, 1987

Songwriter: Tom Petty Bob Dylan Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)

Producer: Tom Petty Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)

[Verse 1]
You got me in a corner
You got me against the wall
I got nowhere to go
I got nowhere to fall
Take back your insurance
Baby nothing is guaranteed
Take back your acid rain
Let your TV bleed

[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby, you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away, but it's not over

[Verse 2]
Take back your angry slander
Take back your pension plan
Take back your ups and downs of your life in raisin-land
Take back Vanessa Redgrave
Take back Joe Piscopo
Take back Eddie Murphy
Give 'em all some place to go

[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby, you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away, but it's not over

[Bridge]
Take back your Iranian torture
And the Apple in young Steve's eye
Yeah, take back your losing streak
Check your front wheel drive

[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me

[Verse 3]
Take back Pasadena
Take back El Salvador
Take back that country club
They're trying to build outside my door

[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby, you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away, but it's not over

[Outro]
Quit jammin' me
Oh, you're jammin' me
You're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Oh, you're jammin' me

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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