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Tom Petty's 'Into The Great Wide Open': Song Analysis
Imagine just standing on top of the world all of a sudden you fall off. Eddy was a 18 year old music star which had only one song that was a hit. Eddy thought the sky was the limit so he moved to Hollywood and met a girl with a tattoo. When he met this girl he decided to get a tattoo as well Tom Petty’s song , “Into The Great Wide Open” tells about a one hit wonder, a good/not so good part of his life and in a unrealistic fashion. Tom Petty’s song, “into the great wide open” was about a guy that wanted to be a rock star. Eddie at the age of 18 moved to Hollywood, California where he had met a girl with a tattoo so he got one as well. He got a job as a bouncer at a nightclub so he could live with the girl and to learn to play the guitar. He
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