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Into The Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Released in July 1991, it was the band's last with MCA Records.




Tom Petty – lead vocals, guitars (acoustic, electric, 12-string), keyboards, percussion
Mike Campbell – guitars (lead, 12-string, bass, resonator, slide), keyboards, backing vocals on "Learning to Fly"
Benmont Tench – acoustic and electric pianos, synthesizer, accordion
Howie Epstein – bass guitar, backing vocals
Stan Lynch – drums, percussion
Additional musicians

Jeff Lynne – guitars, bass, backing vocals, piano, synthesizer, percussion, sound effects
Roger McGuinn – backing vocals on "All The Wrong Reasons"
Richard Tandy – synthesizer on "Two Gunslingers"



00:00 01 Learning To Fly
04:01 02 Kings Highway
07:07 03 Into The Great Wide Open
10:49 04 Two Gunslingers
13:58 05 The Dark Of The Sun
17:21 06 All Or Nothin'
21:28 07 All The Wrong Reasons
25:13 08 Too Good To Be True
29:09 09 Out In The Cold
32:48 10 You And I Will Meet Again
36:29 11 Makin' Some Noise
39:54 12 Built To Last

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00:15Well, it started out
00:18Down a dirty road
00:23Started out
00:28All alone
00:32And the sun went down
00:36As I crossed the hill
00:40And the town lit up
00:44The world got still
00:48I'm learning to fly
00:52But I ain't got wings
00:57Coming down
01:00Is the hardest thing
01:05Well, the good old days
01:09May not return
01:13And the rocks might melt
01:17And the sea may burn
01:21I'm learning to fly
01:24But I ain't got wings
01:29Coming down
01:32Is the hardest thing
01:58Some say life
02:02Will beat you down
02:06Break your heart
02:11Steal your crown
02:14So it started out
02:19For God knows where
02:23I guess I'll know
02:27When I get there
02:31I'm learning to fly
02:35Around the clouds
02:38What goes up
02:43Must come down
02:59I'm learning to fly
03:11I'm learning to fly
03:16I'm learning to fly
03:19I'm learning to fly
03:21I'm learning to fly
03:22Around the clouds
03:24But what goes up
03:27I'm learning to fly
03:29Must come down
03:33I'm learning to fly
03:39I'm learning to fly
03:41I'm learning to fly
03:43I'm learning to fly
03:47I'm learning to fly
03:52I'm learning to fly
03:56I'm learning to fly
04:03I'm learning to fly
04:09When the time gets right
04:12I'm gonna pick you up
04:15And take you far away
04:20From trouble, my love
04:22Under a big old sky
04:26Out in a field of green
04:31There's gotta be something
04:33Left for us to believe
04:37Oh, I await the day
04:41Good fortune comes our way
04:44And we ride down the king's highway
04:48Yeah, yeah, yeah
04:57No, you can't hide out
05:00In a six-gun town
05:03We wanna hold our heads up
05:07But we gotta stay down
05:11I don't wanna end up
05:14In a room all alone
05:18Don't wanna end up someone
05:21That I don't even know
05:26Lover, I await the day
05:29Good fortune comes our way
05:33And we ride down the king's highway
06:00Yeah, I await the day
06:03Good fortune comes our way
06:07And we ride down the king's highway
06:14Yeah, I await the day
06:17Good fortune comes our way
06:21And we ride down the king's highway
06:28How big事 comes our way
06:29At us as a旦那
06:29Dei, between-a-a-oh
06:47And we ride down the king's highway
06:48And we ride down the king's highway
06:54Jar-Trention
06:54Bar The Limits
06:54And we ride down the show
07:19Eddie waited till he finished high school
07:24He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
07:30He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
07:35The future was wide open
07:45They'd moved into a place they both could afford
07:49He found a nightclub he could work at the door
07:55She had a guitar and she taught him some chords
08:01The sky was the limit
08:13Into the great wide open
08:18Under them skies of blue
08:25Out in the great wide open
08:29A rebel without a clue
08:54The paper said Ed always played from the heart
08:59He got an agent and a roadie named Bart
09:05They made a record and it went in the charts
09:11The sky was the limit
09:21His leather jacket had chains that would jingle
09:26They both met movie stars, partied and mingled
09:32Mary and our man said
09:35I don't hear a single
09:37The future was wide open
09:50Into the great wide open
09:54Under them skies of blue
10:00Under them skies of blue
10:02Out in the great wide open
10:06A rebel without a clue
10:13Into the great wide open
10:17Into the great wide open
10:20Under them skies of blue
10:24Into the great wide open
10:29A rebel without a clue
10:35A rebel without a clue
10:59Gunslingers walked out in the street
11:02And one said
11:04I don't want to fight no more
11:08And the other gunslinger
11:12Thought about it
11:14And Lee said, yeah
11:17What are we fighting for?
11:21I'm taking control of my life
11:25I'm taking control of my life
11:29I'm taking control of my life
11:33Now, right now
11:36Oh yeah
11:40Well the crowd
11:42That assembled
11:44That assembled
11:45For the gunfight
11:46Were let down
11:49Everyone hissed and booed
11:52And the stranger
11:54Told his missus
11:57That's the last one
11:59Of these gunfights
12:01You're ever gonna drag me to
12:06I'm taking control of my life
12:10I'm taking control of my life
12:12I'm taking control of my life
12:15I'm taking control of my life
12:18Now, right now
12:20Right now
12:21Oh yeah
12:24Oh yeah
12:41Well the two
12:45Gunslingers
12:45Went riding
12:47Out of town
12:49And
12:49Were never heard from no more
12:52And there ain't been
12:56A gunfight
12:58For a long time
13:00Maybe never
13:01But nobody knows for sure
13:07I'm taking control of my life
13:11I'm taking control of my life
13:15I'm taking control of my life
13:19I'm taking control of my life
13:20I'm taking control of my life
13:20I'm taking control of my life
13:21I'm taking control of my life
13:21I'm taking control of my life
13:22I'm taking control of my life
13:22I'm taking control of my life
13:22I'm taking control of my life
13:23I'm taking control of my life
13:23I'm taking control of my life
13:24I'm taking control of my life
13:25I'm taking control of my life
13:27I'm taking control of my life
13:28I'm taking control of my life
13:28I'm taking control of my life
13:29I'm taking control of my life
13:31I'm taking control of my life
13:31I'm taking control of my life
13:32I'm taking control of my life
13:40I'm taking control of my life
13:45Oh, oh, oh.
14:00Oh, oh, oh.
14:31Get me to a better place.
14:41I saw you sail up across a river underneath Orion's soil.
14:55In your eyes there was a freedom I had never known before.
15:11In the dark of the sun, we will stand together.
15:22Yeah, we will stand as one in the dark of the sun.
15:31Yeah, we will stand as one in the dark of the sun.
16:01I'm wondering why would I sail into the heavens, constellations, and my eyes.
16:19Hey, yeah, yeah.
16:22In the dark of the sun.
16:25I love the sun.
16:26We will stand together.
16:33Yeah, we will stand as one.
16:37Hey, yeah, yeah.
16:39In the dark of the sun.
16:42I love the sun.
16:43We will stand together.
16:50Yeah, we will stand as one.
16:55Oh, in the dark of the sun.
17:03Oh, in the dark of the sun.
17:09Oh, in the dark of the sun.
17:13Oh, in the dark of the sun.
17:41Your daddy was a sergeant major
17:45You didn't want to, but he made you
17:50Wipe his brass from time to time
17:55It left a picture in your mind, you know
18:04You know
18:09You want it all
18:13You want it all
18:19All of nothing
18:23You want it all
18:30Here am I, a fallen arrow
18:35My load is wide, my street is narrow
18:39My skin is thicker, heart is tougher
18:44I don't mind working, but I'm scared to suffer
18:49You know
18:54You know
18:58You want it all
19:03You want it all
19:08All of nothing
19:12You want it all
19:18All of nothing
19:20You want it all
19:48Of nothing
19:56Sweet chariots
19:58Ovelet swing low
20:01The twilight time
20:03The smog makes a rainbow
20:06So keep one eye
20:08On the weather
20:10You had it good
20:13You wanted better, you know
20:20You know
20:23You wanted all
20:29You wanted all
20:34All of nothing
20:39You wanted all
20:44All of nothing
20:46Nothing
20:48Nothing
20:50Oh
20:54All of nothing
20:56Nothing
20:58Nothing
20:59Woo!
21:03You wanted all
21:08You wanted all
21:13All of nothing
21:15All of nothing
21:18Nothing
21:20Nothing
21:21No!
21:23All of nothing
21:52Trouble Blewing
21:55On a cold dark wind
21:58It came without no warning
22:04And that big old house
22:07Went up for sale
22:10They were on the road
22:13By morning
22:16Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
22:19The days went slow
22:22Into the changing season
22:28Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
22:31Hot in the cold
22:34For all the wrong reasons
22:46Well, she grew up hard
22:49And she grew up fast
22:52In the age of television
22:56And she made a vow
23:01To have it all
23:04It became her new religion
23:09Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
23:14Down in the soul
23:17It was an act of treason
23:23Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
23:26Down they go
23:28For all the wrong reasons
23:33For all the wrong reasons
23:34Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
23:58Where the sky begins
24:02The horizon ends
24:05Despite the best intentions
24:11And a big old man
24:14Goes up for sale
24:17He has fatal
24:19He can destroy
24:19He becomes his own
24:20Invention
24:23Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
24:27The days go slow
24:29Into the changing season
24:35Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
24:40Bought and sold
24:41For all the wrong reasons
24:48Down they go
24:54For all the wrong reasons
25:33Her imagination ran wild
25:40Could this really happen to me
25:47She could barely hold back the tears
25:53It was too good to be true
25:56It was too good to be true
26:00It was too good to be true
26:14Everything that she'd waited for
26:21Everything that she'd dared to dream
26:28Suddenly was outside her door
26:34It was too good to be true
26:37It was too good to be true
26:41It was too good to be true
26:53There was no talk of giving in
26:57And just as hope was wearing thin
27:01Her eyes were like a child again
27:07Too good to be true
27:23Morning on the outskirts of town
27:30Sitting in the traffic alone
27:33Sitting in the traffic alone
27:37You don't know what it means to be free
27:43And it was too good to be true
27:46It was too good to be true
27:50It was too good to be true
27:59Too good to be true
28:02And it was too good to be true
30:31I'm out in the cold, body and soul, with nowhere to go, I'm out in the cold.
30:51I'm out, standing in the doorway.
31:10I'm out in the cold.
31:34I'm out, walking around.
31:43I'm out in the cold, body and soul, with nowhere to go, I'm out in the cold.
31:55I'm out in the cold.
31:59I'm out in the cold.
32:49I'm out in the cold.
33:03You and I will meet again, when we're least expecting it.
33:11Somewhere in some fire-off place, I will recognize your face.
33:19I won't say goodbye, my friend, for you and I will meet again.
33:33I heard you singing to no one.
33:38I saw you dancing all alone.
33:42One day you belong to me, next day I just wouldn't know.
33:50One day all the rules will bend, and you and I will meet again.
34:04I've got a feeling, I've got a feeling, I've got a feeling so strong.
34:12Maybe someday our roads will close.
34:29You and I will meet again.
34:33You and I will meet again.
34:50A red-winged hawk is circling
34:54The black top stretches out the daze
34:59I could have get so close to you
35:02And still feel so far away
35:06I hear a voice come on the wind
35:10Said you and I will meet again
35:14I don't know how, I don't know when
35:18But you and I will meet again
35:40I don't know how, I don't know how, I don't know how

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