Best 29 Tom Petty Love Songs

Tom Petty, the frontman of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, was a true rock ‘n’ roll icon. His songwriting often reflected the sincerity and honesty of his heart, and his love songs, in particular, have an everlasting appeal. Whether it’s a heartfelt ballad or a rollicking rocker, Tom Petty knew how to pen a love song that connected with his listeners. Here are the top ten Tom Petty love songs that continue to resonate through the ages.

29- Learning to Fly

Again, not strictly a love song, but its lyrics about growth, struggle, and transformation can apply to the journeys we often take in our love lives.

28- You Got Lucky

From the album “Long After Dark” (1982), it’s a love song with a more cynical take, warning the listener not to take love for granted.

The clouds are all silver and black
Floating around me
Luna come into my eyes
Luna surround me
With black and yellow pools of light

27- American Girl

While this song is typically seen as an anthem of freedom and longing, there is a tender and loving sentiment underlying it that has led many to interpret it as a non-traditional love song.

26- Love Is A Long Road

25- Have Love Will Travel

How about a cheer for all those bad girls
And all the boys that play that rock and roll
They love it like you love Jesus
It does the same thing to their souls

24- Angel Dream

This song from the “She’s the One” soundtrack can be seen as a love song, speaking of an angelic dream-like partner.

23- Alright For Now

22- You and Me

21- Free Fallin

This iconic song features a story of love and loss, touching on the joys and pain of falling in and out of love.

20- Louisiana Rain

19- Crawling Back To You

18- Square One

17- Mystery Man

Don’t hide from me baby
Shame on you
Incognito honey you’re so crude
I don’t mind
Take me hand
Baby I wanna be your mystery man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JefjmSB27fw

16- Even The Losers

15- Breakdown

14- Accused of Love

13- Something Good Coming

And I know that look that’s on your face
There’s somethin’ lucky about this place
There’s somethin’ good comin’
For you and me
Somethin’ good comin’
There has to be

12- Honey Bee

11- I Will Run To You

10- Waiting for Tonight

Yes and I had a little time to kill
As I crossed the parking lot
And I was feeling lucky to have a place to go
Yeah my nerves were feeling shot
For so long I’ve been weary
There was no end in sight

9- Built to Last

8- Wildflowers

A song from the album of the same name, it’s a gentle, folksy tune that has been interpreted as a beautiful love ballad.

Run away, go find a lover
Run away, let your heart be your guide
You deserve the deepest of cover
You belong in that home by and byYou belong among the wildflowers
You belong somewhere close to me
Far away from your trouble and worry
You belong somewhere you feel free
You belong somewhere you feel free

7- A Face In The Crowd

6- You Wreck Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8m5p6V_NPQ

5- The Waiting

The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part

4- Yer So Bad

3- Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UD0c58nNCQ

2- Woman in Love

Time after time, night after night
She would look up at me
And say she was lonely
I don’t understand the world today
I don’t understand what she needed
I gave her everything she threw it all away on nothin’
She’s a woman in love

1- Here Comes My Girl

This track from Petty’s album “Damn the Torpedoes” (1979) is a love song that speaks of the comfort and joy brought by a significant other.

Yeah, everytime it seems like there ain’t nothin’ left no more,
I find myself havin’ to reach out and grab hold of somethin’
Yeah, I just catch myself wanderin’, waitin’, worryin’
About some silly little things that don’t add up to nothin’
And then she looks me in the eye, says, “We gonna last forever,”
And man, you know I can’t begin to doubt it
No, because this feels so good and so free and so right,
I know we ain’t never goin’ change our minds about it