Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Refugee

 

February 21, 2016  
Tom Petty-Damn the Torpedoes
  • Track: Refugee
  • Artist: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • Album: Damn the Torpedoes
  • Year: 2005
 

Lyrics:

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 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 wanna lay there
And revel in your abandon?

Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there
And revel in your abandon?
Honey, it don’t make no difference to me, baby
Everybody’s had to fight to be free

(Chorus)

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


The deluxe, remastered edition of Damn the Torpedoes is a steal on Amazon, and it contains an expanded track list:

I remember buying this record—and I mean record, real vinyl and stuff—when I was in fourth grade. I had to do a serious sell job on my mother to let me bring home an album with a curse word in the title, but I persevered. Once my mother heard the music, I think she was relieved to learn that it was far less subversive than she might have initially suspected. Damn the Torpedoes remains one of Petty’s most enduring records all these years later, spawning three top 40 singles, Refugee, Even the Losers, Don’t Do Me Like That, and Here Comes My Girl.

In 2010, Petty released a deluxe, remastered edition with an entire disc of extra tracks, and I immediately snapped it up. This album takes me back to a happy, simpler time, while still remaining lyrically and musically relevant. While it’s more than 30 years old, to me, Damn the Torpedoes remains as fresh as when it was released during the Jimmy Carter era.

Video:

Here is the official video for Refugee:

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