Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: November 2, 1982

Songwriter: Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell

Producer: Jimmy Iovine Tom Petty

There's something wrong, I can't get my finger on it
I must be looking over something
Sometimes at night, I've had to fight with this emptiness
It's been so hard to see there's something more than this

I'm finding out, I'm finding out
Yeah it look a little time to get what love was about
But honey, I'm coming around
I'm finding out

I've had enough of all this hardcore loneliness
I don't think pain is so romantic
I'm just a working man, I feel each day go by
I couldn't understand I was too weak to fight

I'm finding out, I'm finding out
Yeah it look a little time for me to stand up and shout
But honey, I'm coming around
I'm finding out

I have to thank you, baby, honey I must confess
You have pulled me from this river of loneliness

Baby, I'm finding out
Yeah it look a little time to get what love was about
But honey, I'm coming around
I'm finding out
I'm finding out

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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