Lyrics to
Restless

This version of Restless was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1978.

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I don’t need to belong to no one
I don’t belong at all
Got my face in the corner
Got my back to the wall

And pretty baby I’m restless, restless
Restless through and through
I’m restless restless
You look restless too

I’m a hair trigger lover
And I can’t face up to nothing
I’m impatient with the wind
But I’m waitin’ here for somethin’

And pretty baby I’m restless, restless
Restless through and through
I’m restless restless
You look restless too

Restless sleep, twisted dreams
Moving targets, silent screams
Restless city, restless steets
Restless you, restless me

I’m a face out the window
I’m a black satin sheet
And I can’t stay warm
I stay out in the street

And pretty baby I’m restless, restless
Restless through and through
I’m restless restless
You look restless too

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Restless, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Some of the lyrics to Restless have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Restless if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Restless" means the words set to the music of Restless, 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 Restless and the lyrics to Restless 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 Restless, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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