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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

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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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Livin
Drag
Known
Lasts
Last
Past
Right
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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.
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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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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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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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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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God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
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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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If you don't run, you rust.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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