Released: July 2, 1991
Songwriter: Tom Petty Jeff Lynne
Producer: Jeff Lynne Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell
[Verse 1]
Eddie waited 'til he finished high school
He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo, too
The future was wide open
They moved into a place they both could afford
He found a night club he could work at the door
She had a guitar and she taught him some chords
The sky was the limit
[Chorus]
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue
[Verse 2]
The papers said Ed always played from the heart
He got an agent and a roadie named Bart
They made a record and it went in the charts
The sky was the limit
His leather jacket had chains that would jingle
They both met movie stars, partied and mingled
Their A&R man said, "I don't hear a single"
The future was wide open (Oh)
[Chorus]
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Into the great wide open
A rebel without a clue (Ayy)
Eddie waited 'til he finished high school
He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo, too
The future was wide open
They moved into a place they both could afford
He found a night club he could work at the door
She had a guitar and she taught him some chords
The sky was the limit
[Chorus]
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue
[Verse 2]
The papers said Ed always played from the heart
He got an agent and a roadie named Bart
They made a record and it went in the charts
The sky was the limit
His leather jacket had chains that would jingle
They both met movie stars, partied and mingled
Their A&R man said, "I don't hear a single"
The future was wide open (Oh)
[Chorus]
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Into the great wide open
A rebel without a clue (Ayy)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits (1993)
- Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- I Need to Know
- Into the Great Wide Open
- Don’t Come Around Here No More
- You Got Lucky
- Listen to Her Heart
- Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll
- Runnin’ Down a Dream
- Even the Losers
- Free Fallin’
- The Waiting
- American Girl
- Learning to Fly
- Don’t Do Me Like That
- Here Comes My Girl
- Refugee
- I Won’t Back Down
- Breakdown
- 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