It’s Not Me — A Woman In Love
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers at their emotional best
I was tagged in the “Eight Desert Island Songs” threads; and thought ‘only eight?’ I could do a dozen on just Tom Petty. I started on my Tom Petty eight, then realized I couldn’t fit them into just one article.
I could listen to the live piano intro by Heartbreaker Belmont Tench for days. Even in an arena, it’s so intimate and builds to open with Mike Campbell’s crying guitar lines. The intro is like a full overture for the song, starting quietly, rising, back down again to the explosion of emotion that ends the song.
The lyrics are straightforward. There’s nothing cryptic, no paradox. You’re a fly on the wall in a dark, haunted room with these two characters in the story.
She laughed in my face
Told me goodbye
Said “Don’t think about
You could go crazy.”“Anything can happen
Anything can end
Don’t try to fight it
Don’t try to save me.”She’s a woman in love
She’s a woman in love
And he’s gonna break her heart to…
