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Artist/Band: Tom Petty
Lyrics for Song: American Girl
Lyrics for Album: Greatest Hits [1993]



Well, she was an American girl,

Raised on promises

She couldn't help thinking that

there was a little more to life

Somewhere else

After all it was a great big world

With lots of places to run to

And if she had to die

Tryin', she

Had one little promise she was gonna keep



Chorus:

Oh yeah, alright,

Take it easy, baby

Make it last all night

She was an American girl.



Well, it was kind of cold that night,

She stood alone on the balcony

Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by,

Out on four forty one like

Waves crashing on the beach,

And for one desperate moment there

He crept back in her memory

God, it's so painful when something that's so close

Is still so far out of reach



Chorus


Album Lyrics: Greatest Hits [1993]


Tom Petty
"Greatest Hits [1993]"


1. Refugee
2. Here Comes My Girl
3. Even The Losers
4. Don't Do Me Like That
5. Free Fallin'
6. I Won't Back Down
7. Runnin' Down A Dream
8. American Girl
9. Breakdown
10. Listen To Her Heart
11. I Need To Know
12. The Waiting
13. You Got Lucky
14. Don't Come Around Here No More
15. Into The Great Wide Open
16. Mary Jane's Last Dance