Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: July 29, 1996

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Rick Rubin Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell

[Intro]
A-one, two, three, four

[Verse 1]
Some days are diamonds
Some days are rocks
Some doors are open
Some roads are blocked
Sundowns are golden
Then fade away
And if I never do nothing
I'll get you back some day

[Chorus]
'Cause you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down

[Verse 2]
And all around your island
There's a barricade
That keeps out the danger
That holds in the pain
Sometimes you're happy
Sometimes you cry
Half of me is ocean
Half of me is sky

[Chorus]
But you got a heart so big
(Heart so big, big)
It could crush this town
(Crush this town, town)
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down
(Yes they do)

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Some things are over
Some things go on
Part of me you carry
Part of me is gone

[Chorus]
But you got a heart so big
(Heart so big, big)
It could crush this town
(Crush this town, town)
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down
Baby, you got a heart so big
(Heart so big, big)
It could crush this town
(Crush this town, town)
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down

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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