Kevin Richerson from Bay Minette, AlI think this is the wrong interpretation.Then again maybe we just smoked way too much. Every lyric fits perfectly, except it was an apartment window rather than a hotel room. Robert Fullerton from Wheeling, WvIt's about me and an 18 year old waitress in 1985.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind Publisher: Gone Gator Music, O/B/O CAPASSO I hit the last number, I walked to the road It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone Take me as I come 'cause I can't stay long I'm tired of screwing up, tired of goin' down I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again She said, "I dig you, baby, but I got to keep movin' on, keep movin' on" I was introduced and we both started groovin' She blew the boys away, it was more than they'd seen Well, she moved down here at the age of eighteen With them Indiana boys on an Indiana night Period.Had a good lookin' mama who never was aroundīut she grew up tall and she grew up right I remember getting out of the pool that day and just being so glad it was over, but so proud that I had been honored to have worked with him. For me to have to do it during the entire video and then at the end, come from the bottom of the pool, have her eyes wide open under water, it was just eerie, and it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. When you see people die in these movies and the camera is right on, that’s really very difficult to stay that still. ![]() This is the hardest role I’ve done because you are dead. This man, he’s brought a lot of joy and a lot of heartfelt meaning. My daughter is 21 and she loves this video as much as we did, our generation, and some Hispanic kids that I know - they’re part of my family - they just went to the Tom Petty concert. Kids, they’re macabre, today, yesterday and many years ago and will be in the future. But when I slide down the side of him, I just honestly couldn’t keep it together sometimes. So near the end too, it was very eerie, but it was the fun part. I said, ‘Okay I’m going to go for this’ because the director kept saying, ‘You have to play dead. ![]() He puts lipstick on you and you’re playing dead. He dances with you and dips you and your feet are off the ground. Dead weight! This guy, he was taller than me and everything, but I thought, ‘God, he’s going to drag me around this whole video. I’m not the most outgoing human being in the world - I thought, ‘I’m shy he’s shy.’ We hardly said three words to each other in the beginning, but as the story unfolded, and this director kept saying, ‘Look, you have got to be dead weight in this,’ I remember I was very conscious of my costar and the people I deal with. He was just very humble, beautifully shy. I know that, as we were filming, Tom I found to be always incredibly sensitive and sort of a backseat guy, no matter how brilliant the message was. I don’t know where he was from, but I do remember he had a gruff voice and a very stern one, and he wanted kind of like his way or the highway. And, of course, I had heard a version of the story he was going to tell but I truly didn’t care. I had no clue on the day I actually went to film this - I mean, I had a previous wardrobe in the wedding dress, but I remember that’s all I really wore, so I didn’t really know where this was going. Then I heard the music, and I was so in love with the song. I don’t know when that was, but when he called, I went, ‘Yeah!’ I didn’t care what it was about. I didn’t know him back then, before that video, so I was just blown away, and thought, ‘Okay, I’ve been asked to do videos, I have not done one.’ I think I did one with Don Was. I’ve often heard people speak - and it’s so true because it’s true in my own life - that Tom Petty helped so many of us get through so many difficult times in our lives, again, whether it’s the memory of the song or the entertainment it brought or just the message that he bought.Īnd that video, when he called - I don’t know who he went through, an agent, whatever - ‘Tom asked me!’ I didn’t know Tom Petty. ![]() There are certain artists that you go through life and they either entertain and help you get through a period of your life, or they have a significant influence on the message that they brought during that time. I did it for one reason - I did it because of Tom Petty.
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