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Hard Promises, 1981
Written by Tom Petty
In this song, the narrator is an American in a foreign and exotic place (storied King's Road in West London) who feels very self conscious from the clothes and looks of the people around him ("There were people all around wearin' funny lookin' clothes / Some boys, some girls, some I don't know"). A Pakistani man tries to get him to buy some nameless article he can't get even in America's big cities. The narrator remains skeptical. It's an odd choice of lyric for this standard southern-rock anthem, which Petty belts out with gusto, burying the story behind layers of rock.
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