Lyrics to
You Tell Me

This version of You Tell Me was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1979.

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Baby I heard thunder
I woke up ‘middle of the night
Baby I saw fire
I went left, I went right

So you tell me what you want me to do
This might be over honey, it ain’t through
Let me know when you’re finished with me
What you want me to be
Baby you tell me
Honey you tell me

Baby I don’t understand this
But that’s alright, I can take a little pain
I’ve been winnin’ and losin’
Baby I’ve been in and out of the rain

So you tell me what you want me to do
This might be over honey, it ain’t through
Let me know when you’re finished with me
What you want me to be
Baby you tell me
Honey you tell me

Well you put me through your paces and your twists
Until I felt like dying
Yeah the last thing that I needed
Was to finally realize that you were lying

So you tell me what you want me to do
This might be over honey it ain’t through
Let me know when you’re finished with me
What you want me to be
Baby you tell me
Honey you tell me
Baby you tell me
Will you tell me?

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About Lyrics and You Tell Me by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

The lyrics for You Tell Me are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to You Tell Me 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 You Tell Me - 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 You Tell Me 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 You Tell Me" means the words set to the music of You Tell Me, 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 You Tell Me and the lyrics to You Tell Me 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 You Tell Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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