Rest in Peace
Tom Petty
1950 - 2017
I'm not gonna bore you with my first time hearing Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, we all have one. If you want the complete (and I mean COMPLETE) history of TP&TH, I suggest watching Peter Bogdanovich's "Running Down A Dream", all 4 hours of it. Long, yes, but well worth it, and after watching it, the realization of TP's Passing will probably leave a broken feeling in a certain sense. In the same breath, he's shared alot of music with us, and hearing so many people share their stories really rings true to how good he was musically.
He's kind of the Ferris Bueller of Rock N Roll; Any musician I ever met always said "I dig Petty". Metalheads, Folksy Americana types, Alt Rockers, Classic rock stalwarts. They all found something in there to connect to.
When I started playing guitar I knew I would always be playing, til my dying day. I relished in the dream of sitting on a sunkissed porch with a beat up Telcaster, with a little amp, playing Tom Petty Songs. I'm getting closer to those days.
We're at the point where life's taking more than it's giving, but TP's given us alot of good tunes. This is probably not my fave song, but I think it's fitting for today:
Walls
Some days are diamonds
Some days are rocks
Some doors are open
Some roads are blocked
Sundowns are golden
Then fade away
But if I never do nothing
I'll get you back some day, 'cause
You got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down
All around your island
There's a barricade
That keeps out the danger
That holds in the pain
Sometimes you're happy
Sometimes you cry
Half of me is ocean
Half of me is sky, but
Some things are over
Some things go on
Part of me you carry
Part of me is gone, but
You got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down
