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Tom Petty's Year (Or Two) Of Living Dangerously

Bud Scoppa, Record, August 1985

Crackin' up/ I'm gettin' ready to go
Had enough / I can't take anymore …
I'd run, but I'd find no face
I'd laugh, but it's wreckin' me, wreckin' me
It make a shiver / It make a shake / It
make a monster / Just like an earthquake
Everybody havin' fun / I don't know how
they can carry on
'Cause I don't think it's funny no more …
– from 'Crackin' Up' by Nick Lowe (as recorded by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

Total word count of piece: 4332

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