Thomas Earl Petty es un músico estadounidense nacido en Florida. No tenía aspiraciones musicales hasta que Elvis Presley visitó su ciudad natal.
Comenzó su carrera discográfico como Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers con un álbum titulado como la banda y publicado en 1976.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers lanzaron su tercer álbum, Damn the Torpedoes en 1979, que con el sencillo Refugee se convirtió rápidamente en triple platino en Estados Unidos.
We got somethin' we both know it
we don't talk too much about it
yeah 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
Somewhere, somehow somebody
must have kicked you around some
tell me why you wanna lay there
and revel in your abandon
listen 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
now baby you don't have to live like a refugee
Baby we ain't the first
i'm sure a lot of other lover's 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
it don't really matter to me
everybody's had to fight to be free
you see you don't have to live like a refugee
i said you don't have to live like a refugee