Stretta tra il punk, i primi gemiti del goth e la prima ondata di New Wave, la traccia di Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Refugee ha compiuto un passo di sfida nel riaffermare il dominio del rock chitarristico alla fine degli anni ’70.

Album: Damn the Torpedoes del 1979

Questo brano come tutto l’album del resto (il terzo per l’esattezza) venne accolto dai critici ma soprattutto dai fan con grande euforia e la sensazione che questa grande band fosse una di quelle rare che non si ripetevano, ma si evolvevano con ogni album, diventò nel tempo una certezza.

Refugee

By TOM PETTY & MIKE CAMPBELL

We got something, we both know it
We don’t talk too much about it
Ain’t no real big secret all the same
Somehow we get around it

Listen it don’t really matter to me baby
You believe what you want to believe
You see you don’t have to live like a refugee 
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)

Somewhere, somehow somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there
And revel in your abandon

Honey, it don’t make no difference to me baby
Everybody’s had to fight to be free
You see you don’t have to live like a refugee 
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
No baby you don’t have to live like a refugee 

Baby we ain’t the first
I’m sure a lot of other lover’s been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it’s one of those things
You gotta feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom

It don’t really matter to me
Everybody’s had to fight to be free
You see you don’t have to live like a refugee 
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
I said you don’t have to live like a refugee 
(Don’t have to live like a refugee)
You don’t have to live like a refugee