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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers — Here Comes My Girl
Album: Damn The Torpedos
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Released: 1979
Length: 4:18
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You know sometimes, I don't know why
But this old town just seems so hopeless
I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times
Were just a little bit more in focus

But when she puts her arms around me
I can somehow rise above it
Yeah, man when I got that little girl standin' right by my side
You know, I can tell the whole wide world shove it, hey!

Here comes my girl, here comes my girl
Yeah, and she looks so right, she is all I need tonight

Every now and then I get down to the end of the day
And I have to stop and ask myself why I've done it
It just seems so useless to have to work so hard
And nothin' ever really seems to come from it

And then she looks me in the eye and says,
"We're gonna last forever"
And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it
No, 'cause it just feels so good and so free and so right
I know we ain't never gonna change our minds about it - hey!

Here comes my girl, here comes my girl
Yeah, and she looks so right, she is all I need tonight (Watch her walk)

Every time it seems like there ain't nothin' left no more
I find myself having to reach out and grab hold of something
Yeah, I just catch myself wondering, waiting, worrying
About some silly little things that don't add up to nothin'

And then she looks me in the eye and says,
"We're gonna last forever"
And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it
No, 'cause it just feels so good and so free and so right
I know we ain't never gonna change our minds about it - hey!

Here comes my girl, here comes my girl
Yeah, and she looks so right, she is all I need tonight
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Wow, 42 years ago since I came in that record shop at home and bought this album.  
Posted 3 years ago by BobbyCat    [ Reply ]
Impossible to make a cover of this.
Posted 6 years ago by eveliko    [ Reply ]
I like this song, very intense. I miss you Tom.
Posted 6 years ago by Ptijoc    [ Reply ]
 westslope wrote:
One of my favourite Tom Petty songs.
 
{#Yes} . . . and albums.
Posted 6 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Watch her walk...
Posted 6 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
One of my favourite Tom Petty songs. 
Posted 7 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
Rock In Peace.
Posted 7 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
Tom,

You left us too soon.
And broke
all our hearts.

{#Bananajam}
Posted 7 years ago by DocStrangelove    [ Reply ]
 willjay wrote:
How did this boring dreck ever become "alternative" music?  It is dull and dragging and Petty has a terrible voice.

 
Never liked this song a great deal, but he has others I really prefer.  This is a tad overplayed.
Posted 7 years ago by junebaby65    [ Reply ]
Thomas Earl, mighty fine, mighty fine.
Posted 7 years ago by dyharenas    [ Reply ]
 lily34 wrote:
damn, i just love this from beginning to end.

 
Totally  : )
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Cruising Georgian Bay in a 42 ft. Searay, sun glinting off the waves! Cranked Petty on the stereo..
bliss {#Hearteyes}


Posted 9 years ago by fitmartin    [ Reply ]
How did this boring dreck ever become "alternative" music?  It is dull and dragging and Petty has a terrible voice.
Posted 10 years ago by willjay    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:
Wow...Suddenly, I am cruising around in my hot-rod '70 Cutlass S Coupe with a friend or two, the beers are open, and we are looking for a place to roll a doobie and toss the Frizz...Sometimes, when I hear The Cars 'Candy-O' or Tom Petty's 'Damn the Torpedoes,' it sure feels like it can be 1979 FOREVER, at least, somewhere in my mind!

 
Always loved the Cutlass. I had a 74 Javelin...Bouncy back end but lovely fast car in a straight run.
Posted 11 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
"Tuneful pre-rap" says my house-guest. "Hmmm, might just have a point there" says I, or is that me?
Posted 11 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Unfortunate photography angle captured a strange looking torso. Arms look distorted or too short for the body they're attached. Like the music...just not the photo of TP so much. Oh well...
Posted 11 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:
Wow...Suddenly, I am cruising around in my hot-rod '70 Cutlass S Coupe with a friend or two, the beers are open, and we are looking for a place to roll a doobie and toss the Frizz...Sometimes, when I hear The Cars 'Candy-O' or Tom Petty's 'Damn the Torpedoes,' it sure feels like it can be 1979 FOREVER, at least, somewhere in my mind!

 

Yea what a great year, throw in Rush Permanent Waves, AC/DC Highway to Hell and April Wine Harder, Faster while you're at it!{#Cheers}
Posted 11 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Wow...Suddenly, I am cruising around in my hot-rod '70 Cutlass S Coupe with a friend or two, the beers are open, and we are looking for a place to roll a doobie and toss the Frizz...Sometimes, when I hear The Cars 'Candy-O' or Tom Petty's 'Damn the Torpedoes,' it sure feels like it can be 1979 FOREVER, at least, somewhere in my mind!
Posted 11 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
I love Tom Petty - with or without the Homewreckers.  He doesn't have to prove himself, and even if he DID, he'd just do whatever he wanted anyway.  He's earned his stripes.
 

Miss you so much, Cynaera...

love this song...  what a sensational album...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
As comfortable as an old woolen sweater on a chilly afternoon, and a simple — but strong — love song.
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Damn good songwriter, especially for a good ole Florida cracker boy!
Posted 12 years ago by philbertr    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
I love Tom Petty - with or without the Homewreckers.  He doesn't have to prove himself, and even if he DID, he'd just do whatever he wanted anyway.  He's earned his stripes.
 
Yes he has, several times over.
Posted 12 years ago by Keef    [ Reply ]
damn, i just love this from beginning to end.
Posted 12 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Stands up well after all these years.
Posted 12 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
Thanks Tom,  for years of excellence. Campbell also deserves kudos. You are a purest and a large part of the history of R&R. 
Posted 12 years ago by That_SOB    [ Reply ]
Did someone say Fear of Music!!
Posted 12 years ago by HevvyDee    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Yah, this and a few others that came out in '79: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Cars Candy-O, Steve Forbert's Alive on Arrival, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, London Calling, Talking Heads Fear of Music, and Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. Not a bad year!
 
Forbert's 1979 album was Jackrabbit Slim, but yeah.
Posted 12 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
I love you Tom!
Posted 12 years ago by bluecshells    [ Reply ]
Watch her walk...
Posted 12 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
Got our tickets in the mail on Friday for Tom Petty.....{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 12 years ago by ploba    [ Reply ]
Denmark and Sweden this summer, YES! (and Norway of course, sorry my friends in Norway)


Posted 12 years ago by nalle    [ Reply ]
 miahfost wrote:
Back when Tom Petty was good.
 

like now...
Posted 13 years ago by MiracleDrug    [ Reply ]
 miahfost wrote:
Back when Tom Petty was good.
 
Have you listened to Mojo? Tom's new album is as good as any stuff he has done in the past. Well worth checking out.

Posted 13 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]
I love Tom Petty - with or without the Homewreckers.  He doesn't have to prove himself, and even if he DID, he'd just do whatever he wanted anyway.  He's earned his stripes.
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Back when Tom Petty was good.
Posted 13 years ago by miahfost    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Yah, this and a few others that came out in '79: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Cars Candy-O, Steve Forbert's Alive on Arrival, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, London Calling, Talking Heads Fear of Music, and Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. Not a bad year!

 
All right! I love playing this game.

You can add: Elvis Costello - Armed Forces, Joe Jackson - Look Sharp AND I'm The Man, Dire Staits - Communique, The B52s - The B52s, Cheap Trick - At Budokan, Police - Regatta de Blanc, and all three acts of Zappa's Joe's Garage.


Posted 13 years ago by araja    [ Reply ]
I like Tom Petty...but...based on the amount of TP I hear on Radio Paradise, Tom must be a blood relation. Although the new album is very good.
Posted 14 years ago by dstehle    [ Reply ]
You can't go wrong with a Tom Petty classic.
Posted 14 years ago by thaidirect    [ Reply ]
 woozurbuddy wrote:

I've seen TP & the HB's many times over the past 20+ years and they are always incredible.  The last time was about 2 years ago with Pearl Jam as the opening act - dynomite!

The best  I ever saw was in the mid-80's when they toured with Bob Dylan.  The Hearbreakers were the opening act and played for about an hour and a half.  Then they came back out as Bob Dylan's touring band and did over 2 hours with him.  Unforgetable!
 
They took that tour up another notch by teaming up with the Grateful Dead for stadiums in the Summer of '86.  Petty-> Petty/Dylan->The Dead->Dylan and the Dead. Fantastic.

Posted 14 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
Just gets it right 90% of the time.
Posted 14 years ago by tipper    [ Reply ]

Love it, yes ! RT?


Posted 14 years ago by nalle    [ Reply ]
YESSSSS!
Posted 14 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
 superflyLD wrote:
such a classic album.  I wore this vinyl out as an early teenager.
 
Yah, this and a few others that came out in '79: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Cars Candy-O, Steve Forbert's Alive on Arrival, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, London Calling, Talking Heads Fear of Music, and Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. Not a bad year!

Posted 14 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 Grammarcop wrote:
I have never understood Tom Petty's popularity. 

Flame away! 
 

No, no you will get no argument from me, he has some good songs, but not in over 30 years!
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
I have never understood Tom Petty's popularity. 

Flame away! 
Posted 14 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
One of the last great songs he put out.{#Yes}
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
such a classic album.  I wore this vinyl out as an early teenager.
Posted 15 years ago by superflyLD    [ Reply ]
watch her walk! yeah my kinda boy. .. {#Hug}
Posted 15 years ago by buzmaggie    [ Reply ]
This thing needs some dancing bananas:  {#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana}{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananapiano}{#Bananasplit}
Posted 15 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
poof        suddenly I'm a teenager again ... kewl! {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 15 years ago by WayUpNorth    [ Reply ]
Turn it UP!!!!!! {#Guitarist}
Posted 15 years ago by evansdad    [ Reply ]
 woozurbuddy wrote:
The best  I ever saw was in the mid-80's when they toured with Bob Dylan.  The Hearbreakers were the opening act and played for about an hour and a half.  Then they came back out as Bob Dylan's touring band and did over 2 hours with him.  Unforgetable!
 
I saw that tour too. Paso Robles California isn't the venue for solo acoustic Dylan but get the Heartbreakers on with him and you got yourself a Rock & Roll Show.

Tom Petty &TH are well worth overplaying. Always an outsider even when he's selling out stadiums, always intense onstage.

Posted 15 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
 junebaby65 wrote:
I dig me some TP, but I was hoping for something a little different....
 
Some Stevie Ray Vaughn, perhaps?  {#Clap}

Posted 15 years ago by cochlear    [ Reply ]
I dig me some TP, but I was hoping for something a little different....
Posted 15 years ago by junebaby65    [ Reply ]
One of my favorite TP songs, and even though it's not one I need to hear on the radio anymore, it's still great.

Overplayed doesn't necessarily make a song bad. And maybe there are people a lot younger than me for whom it's not so familiar.
Posted 15 years ago by Mr_Wilson    [ Reply ]
 ick wrote:
Uh huh... I can name this tune in 2 notes.  I must've worn out two copies of this LP growing up.
 
That's so awesome. Have you ever seen him live? I'd love to see a live show!

Posted 15 years ago by Mandible    [ Reply ]
Uh huh... I can name this tune in 2 notes.  I must've worn out two copies of this LP growing up.
Posted 15 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
 kysmet wrote:
I've always been a Tom Petty fan and it's songs like this that instantly take me back in time and bring a smile to my face
 

Me too. First year of college, I think.

Posted 15 years ago by Welly    [ Reply ]
A good song, however not the unique, more obscure songs that I love being introduced on RP.  Gotta love Tom P., but I can put on the local "mix" radio station and hear this any time. 
Posted 15 years ago by nitehawk    [ Reply ]
I've always been a Tom Petty fan and it's songs like this that instantly take me back in time and bring a smile to my face
Posted 15 years ago by K_Love    [ Reply ]
Some Roy Orbison would be great to follow this.
Posted 16 years ago by jbtidwell    [ Reply ]
So few comments for such a great song... Perhaps it needs a little more rotation. "And then she looks me in the aye-ay-ay-ay..."
Posted 16 years ago by chrisinwilson    [ Reply ]
Watch 'er walk.
Posted 16 years ago by secretsauce    [ Reply ]
Leslie wrote:
I guess I have heard this song too many times. It's weary and tiresome.
I second that comment.
Posted 16 years ago by SoundChaser    [ Reply ]
My favorite Petty track . . . AWESOME!!
Posted 16 years ago by ghcollins86    [ Reply ]
Dinsdale wrote:
How ordinary.
NOT!! This is an amazing song in so many ways.
Posted 20 years ago by Cellocaster_Paul    [ Reply ]
How ordinary.
Posted 22 years ago by Dinsdale    [ Reply ]
I guess I have heard this song too many times. It\'s weary and tiresome.
Posted 22 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]