Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was a rock band formed in 1976 from Gainesville, Florida, USA and led by Tom Petty. Petty was supported by his band, The Heartbreakers, for the majority of his career. He has occasionally released solo work, as was the case with his 2006 album Highway Companion on which he performed most of the backing instrumentation himself. However, members of The Heartbreakers have played on each of his solo albums and the band has always backed him when touring in support of those albums. Read more on Last.fm

Well, you can’t turn him into a company man You can’t turn him into a whore And the boys upstairs just don’t understand anymore Well, the top brass don’t like him talking so much And he won’t play what they say to play And he don’t want to change what don’t need to change And…

 
 

I was talking with a friend of mine, said a woman had hurt his pride Told him that she loved him so and turned around and let him go Then he said, “you better watch your step Or you’re gonna get hurt yourself Someone’s gonna tell you lies, cut you down to size” Don’t do…

 

We got somethin’, we both know it, we don’t talk too much about it Ain’t no real big secret, all the same, somehow we get around it Listen, it don’t really matter to me baby You believe what you want to believe, you see You don’t have to live like a refugee (don’t have to…