Lyrics by:Tom Petty/Jeff Lynne Composed by:Tom Petty/Jeff Lynne I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up and the world got still I'm learning to fly learning to fly ...
the eighth studio album by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, 'Learning To Fly' carried on in the same Byrds-inspired, 12-string-guitar-adorned vein as 'Free Fallin'' which had led off Full Moon Fever, Petty's 1989 solo debut (even though it, too, had featured contributions by the Heartbre...
Following the blockbuster success of his solo debut, Petty brought together his band and ‘Full Moon Fever’ producer (and fellow Traveling Wilbury) Jeff Lynne. ‘Into the Great Wide Open’ finds Petty in supreme storytelling mode, most notably on the album’s two big hits, "Learning to Fl...
and to be loved by a woman incapable of loving anyone — and who (a little like Billy Pilgrim) insisted that you can repeat the past— and Grenouille, the boy who grows up impervious to disease and immune to the all