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The one song Tom Petty called "the most depressing" he'd made

A truly gifted songwriter knows how to tap itno all kinds of emotions. Sometimes they might only be briefly felt by that songwriter, whispering the notion of a song in a passing comment. But others landed with a heavy punch to the gut. All of the best songs, though, come straight from the heart. Tom Petty was never known to dwell on pain in his songs.

Even though many of his enduring hits centred on people who were on the wrong side of the tracks, Petty’s romantic way of painting his characters made it feel like everything was going to be just fine by the end of the song, from the girl running away from her nowhere town on ‘American Girl’ to the straight-ahead protagonist of ‘I Won’t Back Down’. Although Petty could delve into dark territory when he wanted to, he admitted one song might have hit too close to the bone.

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Tom Petty at the Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. on 2/3/2008 (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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