Lyrics to
Hometown Blues

This version of Hometown Blues was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1976.

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Baby can’t wait, baby gotta go
Gotta do a number on a late night show
Do a little song, do a little dance
Gonna make the best of her big chance

It don’t really matter if she don’t or if she do
Just tryin’ to make the best of the hometown blues
Blues

I gotta friend, gotta little girl
Say she’s the best in the whole wide world
Said it’s so good, said it so unreal
Might not last, but it’s no big deal

It don’t really matter if she don’t or if she do
Just trying to make the best of the hometown blues.
Blues

Baby, save me, save me,
Save me with your sweet smile
Honey, I really need your
To help me kill a little bit of time

All of the girls run with the crowd
They go wild when the lights go down
They gotta little money, little in a dream
Wanna be the queen of their little scene

Don’t really matter if they don’t or if they do
They’re trying to make the best of the hometown blues
Blues

Blues, blues, blues, blues

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About Lyrics and Hometown Blues by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

The lyrics for Hometown Blues are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Hometown Blues have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Hometown Blues - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Hometown Blues by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Hometown Blues" means the words set to the music of Hometown Blues, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Hometown Blues and the lyrics to Hometown Blues are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hometown Blues, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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