1955 – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Refugee (1979)

 

Escrita por Tom Petty e Mark Campbell, foi gravada em 1979 e lançada no disco Damn the torpedoes, o terceiro de Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, em 19 de outubro de 1979. Sairia também em compacto, com It's rainin' again como Lado B. Foi produzida por Jimmy Iovine e Tom Petty. Chegou ao número 15 do Billboard HOT 100, número 2 no Canadá, número 3 na Nova Zelandia, número 23 na Bélgica e número 24 na Austrália e Holanda. Foi regravada por Melissa Etheridge, entre outros artistas. Tom Petty cantou e tocou guitarra base. Mike Campbell tocou guitarra base. Ron Blair tocou baixo. Stan Lynch tocou bateria e fez backing vocals. Jim Keltner tocou shaker.

A letra:

We did 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 want to believe
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)

Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there
Revel in your abandon
Honey, it don't make no difference to me, baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
Now baby, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee) No

Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it's one of those things
You gotta feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom, honey
It don't really matter to me, baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
No, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
You don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
Oh, oh, oh

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