Tom Petty

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Tom Petty

You follow your feelings
You follow your dreams
You follow the leader
Into the trees

And what's in there waiting
Neither one of us knows
You gotta keep one eye open
The further you go

You never dreamed you'd go down on one knee, but now
Who could've seen you'd be so hard to please somehow?

You feel like a poor boy
A long way from home
You're just a poor boy
A long way from home

And it's wake-up time
Time to open up your eyes
And rise
And shine

You spend your life dreaming
Running round in a trance
You hang out forever
And still miss the dance

And if you get lucky
You might find someone
To help you get over
The pain that will come

Yeah, you were so cool back in high school, what happened?
You were so sure not to have your spirits down

But you're just a poor boy
Alone in this world
You're just a poor boy
Alone in this world

And it's wake-up time
Time to open up your eyes
And rise
And shine

If you get lucky
A boy finds a girl
To help him to shoulder
The pain in this world

If you follow your feelings
You follow your dreams
You might find the forest
There in the trees

Yeah, you'll be all right, it's just gonna take time, and now
Every bad Day goes away somehow someway you'll find

You're just a poor boy
A long way from home
You're just a poor boy
A long way from home

And it's wake-up time
Time to open up your eyes
And rise
And shine

'Cause it's wake-up time
Time to open up your eyes
And rise
And shine

Thomas Earl “Tom” Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup The Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch.

He has recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist, many of which remain heavily played on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. His music, and notably his hits, have become popular among younger generations as he continued to host sold-out shows right up until his death at the age of 66. Throughout his career, Petty and his collaborators have sold 60 million albums. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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