15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Petty balances on that knife edge of uncertainty throughout just marvel at the way he makes the second prechorus sympathetic and standoffish: “It don’t make no difference to me, baby/ Everybody has to fight to be free.” My hands-down favorite, though, is the only verse lyric important enough to be repeated: “Somewhere, somehow, somebody must’ve kicked you around some.” Which, depending on your perspective, reads as either soothing or sneering -and that’s before it’s immediately matched with “Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.” (These two lines together are, possibly, the most Tom Pettyish of all Tom Petty lyrics, and definitely the greatest near-rhyme since Dylan’s “didn’t you/ kiddin’ you. During a Twitter Q&A in December 2011, Petty disclosed that Melissa Etheridge doing 'Refugee' was the best cover of the song he ever heard. Refugee (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song) ' Refugee ' is a song recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, was released in January 1980 as the second single from their album Damn the Torpedoes, and peaking at No. “Ain’t no real big secret, all the same, somehow, we get around it.” Now he’s hinting at the intimacy of lovers, or comrades united against a common obstacle-or something else entirely. Refugee is a song recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, was released in January 1980 as the second single from their album Damn. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).“We got somethin’, we both know it, we don’t talk too much about it.” That’s danger, mystery, tension, and tenderness, all in an opening line. Get the embed code Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Pack Up the Plantation: Live! Album Lyrics1.American Girl2.American Girl (Live)3.Breakdown4.Breakdown (Live)5.Don't Bring Me Down6.Don't Bring Me Down (Live)7.Don’t Bring Me Down8.I Need To Know (Live At The Wiltern/1985)9.Insider10.It Ain't Nothin' to Me (Live)11.Needles and (Live)14.Refugee15.Refugee (Live)16.Rockin' Around (With You)17.Rockin' Around (With You) (Live)18.Rockin’ Around (With You)19.Shout20.Shout (Live)21.So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star (Live)22.Southern Accent23.Southern Accents24.Stories We Could Tell25.The Waiting26.The Waiting (Live)27.You Got Lucky (Live At The Wiltern/1985)Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Lyrics provided by Now you don't have to live like a refugee No, you don't have to live like a refugee I'm sure a lot of other lover's been burned Now baby you don't have to live like a refugee No, you dont have to live like a refugee (dont have to live like a refugee) You dont have to live like a refugee (dont have to live like a refugee) Oh, oh, oh Writer/s: Michael W. Hii! It don't make no difference to me baby Refugee (In the Style of Tom Petty) We got somethin we both know it We dont talk too much about it Aint no real big secret all the same Somehow we get. You see you don't have to live like a refugee It was the first defection from the original group. Listen, it don't really matter to me baby We got somethin, we both know it, we dont talk too much about it. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bassist Ron Blair quit the band after their tour in support of 1981's Hard Promises.
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