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
- Breakdown
- American Girl
- Hometown Blues
- The Wild One, Forever
- I Need To Know
- Listen To Her Heart
- Too Much Ain't Enough
- Refugee
- Here Comes My Girl
- Don't Do Me Like That
- Even The Losers
- The Waiting
- A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
- Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
- You Got Lucky
- Straight Into Darkness
- Change Of Heart
- Rebels
- Don't Come Around Here No More
- The Best Of Everything
- So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star
- Jammin' Me
- It'll All Work Out
- Love Is A Long Road
- Free Fallin'
- Yer So Bad
- I Won't Back Down
- Runnin' Down A Dream
- Learning To Fly
- Into The Great Wide Open
- Two Gunslingers
- Mary Jane's Last Dance
- Waiting For Tonight
- Surrender