American girl (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)

Well, she was an american girl
Raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinking that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Trying she had one little promise
She was gonna keep

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an american girl

Well, it was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could the cars roll by
Out on four forty one
Like waves crashing in the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it’s so painful when
Something that’s so close
Is still so far out of reach

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy, baby
Make it last all night
She was an american girl

(Extraída del álbum “Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers” / Shelter Records – 1976)