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A Face In The Crowd Lyrics
Before all of this ever went down
in another place, another town,
you were just a face in the crowd
out in the street, walking around
A face in the crowd
Out of a dream, out of the sky
into my heart, into my life
And you were just a face in the crowd
out in the street, thinking out loud
A face in the crowd
in another place, another town,
you were just a face in the crowd
out in the street, walking around
A face in the crowd
into my heart, into my life
And you were just a face in the crowd
out in the street, thinking out loud
A face in the crowd
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one of his very best songs i think. makes me think about how many strangers there are in the world that you could fall in love with.
I completely agree, and I love this song too!
I completely agree, and I love this song too!
I take it to be about how random people can meet up. I guess it might be an unrequited kind of thing, based on the sound of the song. Maybe the guy saw somebody somewhere who really stodd out to him, and then he couldn't get her out of his mind, even though he never saw her again or never talked to her. I don't know, just a guess.
Beautiful song, just about brings a tear to my eye every time.
Whenever I hear it I think of my girlfriend, and how before we met I could've seen her on the street a million times and never though anything of it because she was "just a face in the crowd", and now she's the most important thing in my life and the best thing that's ever happened to me.
This is one of my favourite love songs ever and to me it means exactly what it says - he fell in love with someone who once was just a face in a crowd, perhaps someone who came to watch them play.
'A Face in the crowd' was released in 1989, Full Moon Fever... And it makes me wonder if he had already fallen in love with Dana by then or whether he accidentally predicted his future.
This, from Wikipedia: "His first marriage, to Jane Benyo, lasted 22 years. He spent most of those years working, on the road or in the studio. They have two daughters. Adria is a film director and AnnaKim Violette an artist. Since 2001 he has been married to Dana York, whom he first met years earlier when she came to one of his concerts. They have a son named Dylan."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty#Personal_life
@Iemanja75 Thanks for the research on this. I thought it might have something to do with him on the road a lot and seeing many different faces at his shows.
@Iemanja75 Thanks for the research on this. I thought it might have something to do with him on the road a lot and seeing many different faces at his shows.
Isn't it just as simple as how someone whom you might very well have passed in the street hundred of times can suddenly become a person with an identity when you start to fall in love with them?
This song is abt a girl was was nothing to this singer.. was just a face in the crowd .. . until she came into his heart .... he just remembers how she was just A FACE in the crowd until he fell in love
what a great song! and no one has made any comments yet? you hear it once and it haunts you...
i lOVE tHIS sONG....
I love the way Petty paints love in this song. If you think about it everyone is just another face in the crowd, until we put a name, or a life to it. After that we'll always find that face unconciously. It is quite astounding that any of us ever find one another ... yet we're always bumping into one another at the same time.
I just heard this song for the first time. It is awesome, it really is enchanting. I agree with DJ75 it's gotta be another breaking up, I'm not going to remember you anymore song.