American Girl Lyrics

The song American Girl is performed by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in the album named Anthology: Through the Years in the year 2000 .



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
Yeah, and if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise she was gonna keep

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

Well it was kinda cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441, like waves crashin' on the beach

And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, something that's so close
And still so far out of reach

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl



Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Anthology: Through the Years

Oct 2000

  1. Breakdown
  2. American Girl
  3. Hometown Blues
  4. The Wild One, Forever
  5. I Need To Know
  6. Listen To Her Heart
  7. Too Much Ain't Enough
  8. Refugee
  9. Here Comes My Girl
  10. Don't Do Me Like That
  11. Even The Losers
  12. The Waiting
  13. A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
  14. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
  15. You Got Lucky
  16. Straight Into Darkness
  17. Change Of Heart
  18. Rebels
  19. Don't Come Around Here No More
  20. The Best Of Everything
  21. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star
  22. Jammin' Me
  23. It'll All Work Out
  24. Love Is A Long Road
  25. Free Fallin'
  26. Yer So Bad
  27. I Won't Back Down
  28. Runnin' Down A Dream
  29. Learning To Fly
  30. Into The Great Wide Open
  31. Two Gunslingers
  32. Mary Jane's Last Dance
  33. Waiting For Tonight
  34. Surrender

American Girl