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Music video by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers performing Refugee. (C) 1979 Geffen Records

"Refugee" is a song recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was released in January 1980 as the second single from their album Damn the Torpedoes. It peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1980.

Lyrics

We got somethin', we both know it, we don't talk too much about it

Ain't no real big secret, all the same, somehow we get around it

Listen, it don't really matter to me baby

You believe what you want to believe, you see

You don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some

Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon

Honey, it don't make no difference to me, baby

Everybody's had to fight to be free, you see

You don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

No baby you don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

Baby we ain't the first

I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned

Right now this seems real to you, but it's

One of those things you gotta feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some

Who knows maybe you were kidnapped, tied up

Taken away and held for ransom

Honey, it don't really matter to me, baby

Everybody's had to fight to be free, you see

Don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

No you don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)

You don't have to live like a refugee

(Don't have to live like a refugee)