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If you're not getting older, you're dead.

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Tom Petty
Age: 66 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 20
Died: 2017
Died: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gainesville
Florida
Thomas Earl Petty
Charlie T. Wilbury
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Older
Dead
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If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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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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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
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I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.
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There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
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