Tom Petty: You Don't Know How It Feels Meaning

Tagged: Loneliness [suggest]

Album cover for You Don't Know How It Feels album cover

Song Released: 1994

You Don't Know How It Feels Lyrics

Let me run with you tonight
I’ll take you on a moonlight ride
There’s someone I used to see
But she don’t give a damn for me

But let me get to the point, let’s roll another joint
And tu rn the radio loud, I’m too alone to be proud
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Oct 30th 2020 !⃝
You dont know how it feels to be me!! How about that??? Tom understood that we are all INDIVIDUALS!!!
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Jan 16th 2005 !⃝
This song was about an affair he had with Mary Badham. After a week, she refused to see him. She reportedly said, 'I don't give a damn about you, Tom' and slammed the door. Which is where he wrote, 'There's someone I used to see, she don't give a damn for me.'

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