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I Need To Know

This version of I Need To Know was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1978.

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Well talk on the street
Says you might go solo
A good friend of mine
saw you leavin’ by your back door

I need to know, I need to know
If you think you’re gotta leave
Then you better say so
I need to know, I need to know
Cause I don’t know how long I can hold on
If you’re making me wait, if you’re leadin’ me on
I need to know

Who would’ve thought that
You’d fall for his line
All of a sudden
It’s me on the outside

I need to know
I need to know
Baby, I need to know

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The lyrics for I Need To Know are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to I Need To Know 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 I Need To Know - 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 I Need To Know 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 I Need To Know" means the words set to the music of I Need To Know, 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 I Need To Know and the lyrics to I Need To Know 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 I Need To Know, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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