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Some days are diamonds,
Some days are rocks.
Some doors are open,
Some roads are blocked.

Sundowns are golden,
Then fade away.
And if I never do nothin',
I'll get you back some day.

'Cause you got a heart so big it could crush this town.
And I can't hold out forever; even walls fall down.

And all 'round your island
There's a barricade.
It keeps out the danger,
It holds in the pain.

And sometimes you're happy,
Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean,
Half of me is sky.

But you got a heart so big it could crush this town.
And I can't hold out forever; even walls fall down.

Yes, they do.

Oh!

And some things are over,
Some things go on.
And part of me you carry,
Part of me is gone.

But you got a heart so big it could crush this town.
And I can't hold out forever; even walls fall down.
Baby, you got a heart so big it could crush this town.
And I can't hold out forever; even walls fall down.

Yeah, I guess they do.

Yes, they do,

They fall down.
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Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

good to listen to when you feel like a bag of smashed assholes

you nailed it.

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Smashed,huh?

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Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

this is one of my all time favorite songs. tom petty says so much with so little.

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

Just as a bit of trivia, Johnny Cash came up with the first two lines of this song. It was just something he said to Tom Petty one day.

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

this one of the few 'beautiful' songs I really like. The live version from wildflowers in particular.

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

i love this song... opening lines summerize life in my opinion... one of my favourite quotes ever if u havent heard the whole shes the one CD u def should!!

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

i love this song... opening lines summerize life in my opinion... one of my favourite quotes ever if u havent heard the whole shes the one CD u def should!!

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

This song is awesome. Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks...how true is that?

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

If you watch the video, Jennifer Aniston makes a short appearance!

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

I like how there's a lot "this is this, but that is that" in this song. It shows how nothing is 100 percent. You can have you ideas and principles and rules, but there's always shades of grey and exceptions. You never really know what's going on in life. You see nice things like "golden sundowns," but then they "fade away" and you have to deal with that. Then you have the walls which are supposed to be inpentatrable and permanant, but they fall down, too. So it's kind of a good thing that nothing lasts, because even the bad things don't.

I guess I read a lot into it, but I think that makes sense if you want to take it that way.

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

bright eyes often covers this in concert