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Big Weekend Lyrics
There's some friends that I know living in this town and I've come far to see them. Gonna track em' down. They live in a brick house painted white and brown.
Left a tip for the maid and I packed up my guitar, dropped my key on the counter, rented a car. Gonna hook up with em' later and go hit the bars.
I need a big weekend. Kick up the dust. Yeah a big weekend. If you don't run, you rust.
Well I may shake your hand but I won't know your name. The joke in your language don't come out the same. There's times when I'm down and there's nothing to blame.
I need a big weekend. Kick up the dust. Yeah a big weekend. If you don't run, you rust.
I can work, I can travel, sleep anywhere, cross every border with nothing to declare. You can look back babe, but it's best not to stare.
I need a big weekend. Kick up the dust. Yeah a big weekend. If you don't run, you rust.
"You can look back babe, but it's best not to stare." That's right up there with "Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks," "Most things I worry 'bout never happen anyway," and dozens of Tom Petty's fantastic lyrics. Simple, relatable, and profound.
Speaking of these lyrics reminding me of other Petty lyrics, the lines "I can work, I can travel, sleep anywhere, cross every border with nothing to declare" remind me of the lines from A Mind with a Heart of Its Own "I've been over to your house, and you've been over sometimes to my house, I've slept in your tree house, my middle name is Earl." Both are kind of funny and unexpected. And I love them both for that reason.