Lyrics to
Refugee

This version of Refugee was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1979.

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We got somethin’, we both know it, we don’t talk too much about 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
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon
Horny, it don’t make no difference to me baby
Everybody has to fight to be free, you see

You don’t have to live like a refugee
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
No baby you don’t have to live like a refugee
(Dont have to live like a refugee)

Baby we ain’t the first
I’m sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now it 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
Horny, it don’t make no difference to me baby
Baby, everybody has to fight to be free, you see

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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers has released many songs over the years besides Refugee. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers released songs from 1976 to 2002 spanning across albums like Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, You're Gonna Get It!, Damn The Torpedoes, Hard Promises, Long After Dark, Southern Accents, Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), Full Moon Fever, Into The Great Wide Open, Wildflowers, She's The One, Echo, and The Last DJ. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers.

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The lyrics for Refugee are defined as the words making up the song released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Refugee have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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