Today's
::from SongMeanings.net::
I'm passing sleeping cities
Fading by degrees
Not believing all I see to be so
I'm flyin' over backyards
Country homes and ranches
Watching life between the
branches below
And it's hard to say
Who you are these days
But you run on anyway
Don't you baby?
You keep running for another place
To find that saving grace
I'm moving on alone over ground that no one owns
Past statues that atone for my sins
There's a guard on every door
And a drink on every floor
Overflowing with a thousand amens
And it's hard to say
Who you are these days
But you run on anyway
Don't you baby?
You keep running for another place
To find that saving grace
Don't you baby?
You're rolling up the carpet
Of your father's two-room mansion
No headroom for expansion no more
And there's a corner of the floor
They're telling you is yours
You're confident, but not really sure
And it's hard to say
Who you are these days
But you run on anyway
Don't you baby?
You keep running for another place
To find that saving grace
Don't you baby?
A quote from OpinionHead made in the comments @ Songmeanings.net that I think says it all-
12-09-2009 - Whatever the real meaning, Petty penned a late-career classic I think. I am amazed at the man's stamina. Pushing 60, and can rock out like guys a third of age, he's like Springsteen in that regard. Either way, Petty a classic rock star and he proves it with this song. It may be about a man's late-life thoughts on religion and humankind, it may be about remembering those singular life experiences that left the greatest impact on one's own life, it may even be gibberish strung together to both look and sound deep while the artist chuckles at his own fanbase for being a little too pretentious. No matter how one slices it, this is an awesome song and Tom Petty is an American treasure.
::WIKI "FACTS"::
*This was the lead track on his 2006 album,
Highway Companion.
*"Saving Grace" debuted the week ending 2006-07-22 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart at #100, the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart at #34, and the Pop 100 chart at #85. The song improved in the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart to #26 over the course of four weeks.
::Extra Goodies::
Tom Petty on AmIRight.com
*On Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever, there is an extra track after "Running Down A Dream", with Tom Petty announcing that this would have been the space where tape cassette and vinyl LP owners would have to stop what they were doing and turn the record/tape over. He is accompanied by various unidentified persons imitating barnyard animals.
Tom Petty on Answers.com
*Born the son of an insurance salesman on October 20, 1950, in Gainesville, Florida, Tom Petty seemed destined for a future in rock and roll from the age of 11. He met Elvis Presley when the King of Rock and Roll came to Gainesville in 1961 to shoot the film Follow That Dream. "[Presley] didn't have much to say to us," Petty recalled in Rolling Stone, "but to a kid at an impressionable age, he was an incredible sight." The next day young Petty traded his slingshot for a friend's collection of Presley and Little Richard records. "And that," related Petty, "was the end of doing anything other than music with my life. I didn't want anything to fall back on because I was not going to fall back."
Tom Petty Time Line on RockOnTheNet.com
*Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers formed in early 70's with Tom Petty, Mike Cambell and Benmont Tench performing as 'Mudcrutch' in Florida. After releasing 1 single "Depot Street" on Shelter Records in 1974, the trio went their separate ways and regrouped a year later adding Ron Blair and Stan Lynch and naming themselves Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Tom Petty Random Facts on WhosDatedWho.com
*Daughters Adria Petty and Anna Kim Petty.*His birthday (October 20) is also the anniversary of the deaths of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant, bandmate Steve Gaines and sister Cassie Gaines in a plane crash.*Was the only blonde member of the Traveling Wilburys
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