RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
SONGWRITER: tom pretty; jeff lynne & mike
campbell
COUNTRY: u.s.a.
ALBUM: FULL MOON FEVER
LABEL: mca records
GENRE: heartland rock
YEAR: 1989
"Runnin' Down a Dream" is a song co-written and recorded by Tom
Petty. It was released in July 1989 as the second single from his first solo álbum
Full Moon Fever. "Runnin' Down a Dream" achieved reasonable chart
success, reaching number 23 both in Canada and on the US Billboard Hot 100 and
the top of the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It has since garnered
significant airplay on classic rock stations, and lent its name to the 2007
documentary on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
The song was co-written by Mike Campbell, along with Petty and Jeff
Lynne. It was a nod to Petty's musical roots, with the lyric "me and Del
were singin' 'Little Runaway'" making reference to Del Shannon and "Runaway".
The song uses E major as a tonic, but makes ample use of chords outside
that key, such as D, G, and C major chords. Some passages use a pedal point of
E in the bass, while changing chords from E major to C and D major chords above
it. The repeating fuzz guitar riff, using the notes B, B♭, A, G, and E, lacks
only a D to complete the hexatonic E blues scale.
The music video for "Runnin' Down a Dream", directed by Jim
Lenahan, featured animation, based on several episodes of the classic comic
strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, featuring a drawing style
reminiscent of McCay's and showing Petty and a character who resembles Flip
travelling through Slumberland. The 1933 film King Kong is also briefly
referenced when Petty, atop the Chrysler Building, attempts to swat at
attacking oversized mosquitoes, much like Kong swatting at the biplanes in the
film.
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American
singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. Petty
served as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He was also a
member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, and
his early band Mudcrutch.
It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
I had the radio on, I was drivin'
trees flew by, me and Del were singin little Runaway
I was flyin'
Chorus:
Yeah runnin' down a dream
that never would come to me
workin' on a mystery, goin wherever it leads
runnin' down a dream
I felt so good like anything was possible
hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
the last three days the rain was un-stoppable
it was always cold, no sunshine
Chorus
I rolled on; the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
there's something good waiting down this road
I'm pickin up whatever is mine
Chorus
Chorus.
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