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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

Tom Petty

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
TOM PETTY

Lose Luck Time
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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Drink Long Myself Sing Song Stay
Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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Dreams Myself Time World
I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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Alone Band Hands Myself Respect Treat Uncomfortable
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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Abandonment Lose Yourself
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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Average Celebration Freedom Yourself
Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Cold Growth Young
George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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Hug Kind Love Man Yourself
Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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Dreams Leadership Mystery Work
I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Comfortable Man Myself
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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Fall Life People Start Yourself
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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Commercial Myself Song
I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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Angel Goodness Myself Person Remedy
I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
TOM PETTY

Better Interesting Myself Quit Watch
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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Authority Development Myself Personality Problem Time
If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
TOM PETTY

Imagination Sale Yourself

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

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