R/SongMeanings

Edit: The first “The future was wide open” meant that the sky was the limit, nowhere to go but up. The second “The future was wide open” meant, ...

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Love the guitar, lyrics about a young guy walking into a world with endless possibilities.

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Since it was a Tom Petty lyric first I will always associate it with Into the Great Wide Open. But to me it means someone who is determined and ...

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I have a highly irrational love of Into The Great Wide Open that's driven by nostalgia. It was also the first Tom Petty album I owned. The first ...

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To me it says, Looking at your reflection in mirror. Trying to forgive someone, like a child. Trying to figure out life, going from here.

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Even the Losers is really high up there. But I also love Walls, and since his passing Into the Great Wide Open has really struck me emotionally.

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I'm assuming this song is about some kind of accident happening to the child's friend/family member. It could be a car accident, falling in a pothole, anything.

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“Into the Great Wide Open” tells the story of a Hollywood hopeful who, like Petty, moves to town in search of a record deal.

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