Tom Petty
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
In the dark of the sun will you save me a place?
Give me hope, give me comfort, get me to a better place?
I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them.
Somewhere deep in the middle of the night,
Lovers hold each other tight.
Whisper in their anxious ears,
Words of love that disappear.
And I don't want to question or even celebrate
All the joy you took and then gave back too late.
Young people are very cynical now, you know? Very cynical! They've been taught cynicism, they've been — they've been bred cynicism. So, I think it's important to give them hope and realism in the same package, you know? You can be realistic but there should be — there should be hope in it. Because hope's what we're about. If we don't have hope then we don't go on.
You and I will meet again
When we're least expecting it.
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face.
I won't say good-bye my friend,
For you and I will meet again.
And for one desperate moment
There he crept back in her memory.
God it's so painful, something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach.
People come, people go.
Some grow young, some grow cold.
I can work, I can travel, I can sleep anywhere,
Cross every border with nothing to declare.
You can look back babe, but it's best not to stare.
There were times apart, there were times together.
I was pledged to her for worse or better.
When it mattered most I let her down.
That's the way it goes, it'll all work out.
Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes.
Even the losers keep a little bit of pride.
They get lucky sometimes.
Yeah and it's over before you know it.
It all goes by so fast.
Yeah, the bad nights last forever,
And the good nights don't ever seem to last
For just a minute there I was dreaming.
For just a minute it was all so real.
For just a minute she was standing there, with me.
Wherever you are tonight,
I wish you the best of everything, in the world.
And I hope you found
Whatever you were looking for.
I remember feeling this way,
You can lose it without knowing.
You wake up and you don't notice
Which way the wind is blowing
It just seems so useless to have to work so hard,
And nothin' ever really seems to come from it.
Now I'm walkin' this street on my own,
but she's with me wherever I go.
Well some say life
Will beat you down,
And break your heart,
Steal your crown.
Oh my love if I reveal
Every secret I've concealed,
How many thoughts would you steal,
How much of my pain would you feel?
Yeah, the world would swing if I were king.
Can I help it if I still dream time to time?