Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: July 29, 2014

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell Ryan Ulyate

Who's gonna come and take this badass down?
Who's gonna come burn this other playhouse down?
Can you see me against the sun
Crying out to reach someone

He's power drunk
Yeah, look at his eyes
Better sober up
It's the truth within him makes a good man rise

God protect us from the thoughts in some men's minds
God protect us from the pain he leaves behind
Now you see him against the sky
Believing in his own lies

And he's power drunk
Yeah, look at his eyes
Better sober up
It's the truth within him makes a good man rise

[Guitar Interlude]

Pin on a badge and a man begins to change
Starts believing that there's nothing out of his range
You and I are left in the wind
In the wake of a rich man's sin

And he's power drunk
Yeah, look at his eyes
Better sober up
It's the truth within him makes a good man rise

Make a good man rise

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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