YOU GOT LUCKY
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
SongwriterS: tom pEtty & mike campbell
Country: u.s.a.
Album: "Long After Dark"
Label: backstreet
Genre: heartland rock
Year: 1982
Long
After Dark is the fifth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,
released in November 1982 on Backstreet
Records. Notable for the major MTV hit "You Got
Lucky", the album was also the first to feature the late Howie Epstein on bass and harmony vocals. Epstein's vocals are evident throughout the album,
most notably on "Change of Heart". From this point on Epstein's
vocals became an integral part of the Heartbreakers' sound. In
addition, it was the first Heartbreakers album to feature a real synthesizer on record.
There was
a song recorded for this album called "Keeping Me Alive", which Petty
himself is very fond of but the producer, Jimmy
Iovine, disliked. Petty has expressed that he feels
the album would have turned out better if the song had been included on the
album. "Keeping Me Alive" was eventually released on Petty's 1995 box
set compilation Playback.
Thomas
Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American musician,
singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known
as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is
also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling
Wilburys (under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury), and his early band Mudcrutch.
You better watch what you say
You better watch what you do to me
Don't get carried away
Girl, if you can do better than me, go
Yeah go but remember
Good love is hard to find
Good love is hard to find
You got lucky babe
Yeah, you got lucky babe
When I found you-
You put a hand on my cheek
And then you turn your eyes away
If you don't feel complete
If I don't take you all of the way, go
Yeah go, but remember good love
Is hard to find
You got lucky babe
Yeah you got lucky
When I found you