by Tom McRae & The Standing Band on album Did I Sleep and Miss the Border

Hoping against hope In the photograph I see the spark Long gone now, an echo of fire It's time to face the fact There's no second act We're down with the dead now Forgotten and cold But whiles I'm sti

by Tom McRae & The Standing Band on album Did I Sleep and Miss the Border

Lover still you I've watched stars die And I've watched them Fall from burning skies And I've learned the names of God And I've held a grain of sand A universe in my hand And I've made all of time sta

by Tom McRae & The Standing Band on album Did I Sleep and Miss the Border

My desert bride We drove until the road ran dry And twisted into dirt and sky And fell into the shadow of this place and I took your hand as you took mine and swore upon the desert sky on every star w

by Tom McRae & The Standing Band on album Did I Sleep and Miss the Border

I've exchanged every cell in my body Turned into someone new But I still see through the same eyes and When I close them I see you And there's nothing that don't ache in the morning ‘cept for the pa

by Tom McRae & The Standing Band on album Did I Sleep and Miss the Border

Christmas Eve, 1943 Black crow at my window pane Hammers out his refrain An omen of dark skies Coming of hard times Coming of rain And I light fire each night Your letters, they burn so bright In copp

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album Pack Up the Plantation - Live!

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 wanna

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album Pack Up the Plantation - Live!

Well, she was an American girl Raised on promises She couldn't help thinking That there was a little more to life somewhere else After all it was a great big world With lots of places to run to And if

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album Pack Up the Plantation - Live!

Honey don't walk out I'm too drunk to follow You know you won't feel this way tomorrow Well, maybe a little rough around the edges Inside a little hollow I get faced with some things, sometimes That a

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album Pack Up the Plantation - Live!

It's alright if you love me It's alright if you don't I'm not afraid of you runnin' away Honey, I get the feelin', you won't There is no sense in pretendin' Your eyes give you away Somethin' inside y

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album Into the Great Wide Open

Somewhere out my doorway Somewhere down my block I can hear her heartbeat In rhythm with my clock I want her more than diamonds I want her more than gold I want her more than anything Anyone could ho

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album Into the Great Wide Open

When I was a young boy I was working for the state I wasn't making much money I was staying out late Go down at nighttime Playing music in the bars Take my breaks out underneath the stars. I was maki

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album Into the Great Wide Open

Your daddy was a Sgt. Major You didn't wanna but he made you Wipe his brass from time to time It left a picture in your mind. You know? You know? () You want it all, you want it all All or nothin' H

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

She's a good girl, loves her mama Loves Jesus and America too She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis Loves horses and her boyfriend too It's a long day livin' in Reseda There's a freeway runnin' throug

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down No I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around And I'll keep this world from draggin' me d

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

You never had a chance, did ya babe so good lookin, so insecure and now you say you can't remember when the line you drew began to blur yeah, when all of this is over should i lose you in the smoke i

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

Look, we got another one Just like the other ones Another bad-ass Another trouble-maker I'm scared, ain't you boys scared Oh, wonder if he's Gonna show us what bad is Boys, we got a man With a dog col

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down I had the radio on, I was drivin' Trees went by, me and Del were singin' Little runaway, I was flyin' Yeah runnin' down a dream That never would come to me W

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

Well, it was out in California by the San Diego sea That was when I was taken in and it left its mark on me Yeah, she nearly drove me crazy with all those china toys And I know she really didn't mean

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

You got me in a corner You got me against the wall I got nowhere to go I got nowhere to fall Take back your insurance Baby nothin's guaranteed Take back your acid rain Baby let your T.V. bleed You'r

by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on album The Live Anthology

She laughed in my face, told me good-bye Said, "Don't think about it, you can go crazy Anything can happen, anything can end Don't try to fight it, don't try to save me" She's a woman in love She's a