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Refugee Lyrics

(Tom Petty and Mike Campbell)

[Originally by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers]

We got somethin', 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, revel in your abandon
Horny, it don't make no difference to me baby
Everybody has to fight to be free, you see

[Chorus:]
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
(Dont have to live like a refugee)

Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now it 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
Horny, it don't make no difference to me baby
Baby, everybody has to fight to be free, you see

[Chorus]
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Cover art for Refugee lyrics by Melissa Etheridge

I think Melissa just ROCKS this song.

Cover art for Refugee lyrics by Melissa Etheridge

Well, i was wondering about this song and maybe it may have some lesbian related issues. Seems like the "baby" is kind of afraid of this love, why??? Why live like a refugee (a refugee in straight world). Sometimes is hard to say what's is fictional and whatr is bio on a artist's work...

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