Quote #62

Yeah I'll be king when dogs get wings. Can I help it if I still dream time to time? It's good to be king and have your own world. It helps to make friends, it's good to meet girls. A sweet little queen who can't run away. It's good to be king, whatever it pays.

More from Tom Petty

  1. It's good to be king and have your own way, get a feeling of peace at the end of the day.
  2. Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go from time to time.
  3. Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
  4. I remember feeling this way, you can lose it without knowing. You wake up one day and you don't notice which way the wind is blowing.
  5. It's good to be king, if just for a while. To be there in velvet, yeah, to give 'em a smile.
  6. If we don't get to a higher place and find somebody who can help somebody might be nobody no more.
  7. I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants. You be the girl at the high school dance.
  8. I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day, most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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