Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Make It Better (Forget About Me) Lyrics

Runnin Down a Dream ...doc is 4 hours, had to watch in pieces... was Great!!!

Tom Petty – lead vocal, rhythm guitar
Mike Campbell – lead guitar
Stan Lynch – drums
Benmont Tench – keyboards
Howie Epstein – bass
David A. Stewart – guitar
Phil Jones – tambourine
Molly Duncan – saxophone
Dave Plews – trumpet
Stephanie Spruill, Maxine Waters, Julia Waters, and Clydene Jackson – background vocals

Who are the background dancers.

Just like this song. Say goodbye 👋.

Why wasn't this video included in the dvd?

Still in love with this man,the world doesn't seem the same without him!!! 06/23/2019

cant believe he is gone.glade I busted out some concerts in the great Ga

Is that the same girl who played Alice In Wonderland in the "Don't Come Around Here No More" vid? Sure looks like her.

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The back up singer on the right, good lord she is sexy.

looks like this girl got a song stuck in her head. literally

Between this and Don't Come Around Here No More, I think this was Tom Petty's first dance with Mary Jane.

This might be the weirdest Tom Petty video

Bought this album as a single by accident oops

I remember this tune on MTV MAN IT ROCKS !!!!! And VH1 .....whenever Tom was on tv ......everything around me didn't exist !! Mesmerizing!! 😍😍

I want to make it better baby 
Listen, I want to make it good again 
Yes I want to make it better girl

Yeah better for you, and me 
Baby wait and see 
I know its been a long, long time 
But its gonna be alright 
No you mustn't let it drag you down 
Honey, there's a lot a fools around 
But anything I can do, honey 
I'm gonna do it for you

I want to make it better baby 
Listen, I want to make it good again 
Yes I want to make it better girl

Yeah good for you and me 
Baby please believe 
That anything I can do, baby I'm gonna do it for you 
(Forget about me, forget about these eyes) 
(Forget about me, say good-bye)

There was too much rain, too much humidity 
Tell me why you did what you did to me ? 
Honey you're the judge, there ain't no jury 
And I'm just an innocent boy, used to bein' guilty

This is one of my favs..
.oohh la la !!!!! 😎

1 year has gone by can anything "Make it Better"!

Such a cool song,he has an awesome voice! RIP Tom.

so much occult symbolism in tom petty's videos

I want a pair of Tommy's sunglasses!

Fun! Fun! Fun! It seems they all got along so well!

great song... great Band... musical master work!!!!

This video and the cars video you might think walk hand in hand it must be the same director

Good song. Fairly silly video

nathanl75 lol not really,the video is about a girl running away from her own heart,and the universe is screaming at her to fix herself and her problems.Thats what I got from it anyway.Whats your theory?

Lucid Planet
Exactly...lol

How are there people who disliked this video 😂😂🤣🤣

Amazing Tom & the Band....always over the top entertainment. Love that Lynch guy and his rhythm!!

I don't remember this one. hahaha inside the head! Hilarious! Like Innerspace ... i know why this wasn't on MTV often tho, kinda weak for Tom Petty most of his songs are super catchy and memorable, this one doesn't have that hook. But Love TP forever. I always said, "Tom Petty could put out a song tonight and it will be on classic rock radio tomorrow" Legend who walked among us.

Missing a beat would'nt be wise. A fav video. Music for TP&THB's was All or Nothing!! Love you guys!! God Bless

Travelin Wilburys too

I wish Tom Petty was still here

Petty has been my favourite for many years, but there's so much I still don't know, like his video and song are new to me. That is Alice from Don't Come Around Here No More, isn't it!?

This could be his only "80's style" song.

All his music is pretty timeless and not trendy, but he actually has quite a few that sound 80s to me; Runaway Trains, You Got Lucky, All Mixed Up, Don't Come Around Here etc.

Very interesting reading material about this video and the girl at http://www.noblemania.com/2013/07/the-girl-in-video-dont-come-around-here_22.html

Is this a little soft Elvin Bishop & Elvis mixed into Petty ? Love, Live, Love !

Love it how Tom's mike and stand come back to him, he smiles big every time -- it's a reference to James Brown who made that move famous (Prince copied it lots). Then the stand just spins around, no pretense to having control -- so funny.
Thanks for posting -- great soul-filled song. Petty wrote and sang from the heart so it comes across in all kinds of styles.

Milwaukee's Howie Epstein RIP. Gainsville's Tom Petty RIP.

This wasn't the result of a coke bender. *sarcasm

Jeez I wish Tom Petty could play a show in my brain too

forgot about this song and video. fun fun

Wish-foley ????

The girl in the video, Wish Foley, was also Alice in 'Don't come around here no more' AND in real life, she dated drummer Stan Lynch for around, I believe, 5 years.

Louise Foley, who played Audrey Pfeiffer on the ts show, Family. (1977-82)

That’s my aunt and she’s awesome.

Man, these guys are freakin awesome!  You name your style of music and they can rock it.  Thanks for the memories Tom.

I never realized just how much Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers were part of my teen years, I had totally forgotten about this song until I saw it in the Southern Accents mini-documentary! I blame myself, I blame radio programmers, something's to blame for me not seeing this in 30 years from the days when I had MTV pumping on my Zenith big TV after High School! Darn it! Needless to say, it's a joy and a heartbreak, today, it hit me hard Tom, I felt it almost physically. I'll miss the guy but Tom will live on in his work and music... thank you Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Gary

What was that John Denver used to say? Only in a different way. I'll be two grand she's still very pretty.

Underappreciated genius song and video (even if Tom didn't much like it himself, and it wasn't very popular when it came out apparently).

Rest In Peace Tom Petty 😞💕

RIP Tom Petty. Your music will live forever!

RIP Tom Petty.  And thank you.  :(

rip tom petty

I loved this song. Loved this video. And I'll miss you dearly, Tom Petty. Godspeed, my friend.

R.I.P. Tom.

Same girl as in The Cars Video You Might Think?

One of my favorite videos from Summer 1985. Though I rarely heard this on the radio, it is one of my favorite Tom Petty songs.

R.I.P Tom Petty 1950-2017.

Tornado1994 Agreed. The world lost another great musician. His music will live forever though. RIP

A J Ive never heard it on the radio. Im gunna call my local station and tell em to get on it

Maybe NOT radio.....but MTV...YEAH, a lot!!! Love his music & videos!

I'm sooooo sad right now. RIP, Tom. Thanks for the classics.

Doesn't this video kind of remind you of the cars you might think video watch and compare

So the ear drums really are tiny drums, I knew it!

This is really a good song, but a terrible video. I guess it reminds me of The Cars video for You Might Think. But, somehow that one works for the music. I guess we're just seeing Tom scurry through the 80's and he did it!

Another GREAT video!!!

Let's think......

This one, Jamming me, Don't come round here!, You got lucky,???

Several GREAT songs & videos😀

OMG! Yer so bad!!!😀😄😂GREAT video & of course song!😁

+Tara Keebler

The cartoon version

Running down a dream

I hear that Tom himself doesn't like this song now... and it's different from their typical style (its like new wave soul), but that's exactly what makes it cool to me. He's done so many different sounds over the years.

Now I want a pair of those sun glasses to go with the boots Tom wears in the video for 'Don't come around here no more'....

I see Tom is wearing another one of his spectacular rock'n'roll suits!

OMG!!! My Lord Jesus knows how GREAT of a video this was!!! 1985 to NOW😀😄😃😀😄😃😀😄😃

Tara Keebler that was my exact reaction! I’m on a bit of a Tom Petty video binge right now, and only just beginning to fully understand just how great was his message. He was indeed a gift. ✨

I screamed this song to glenn william greven for 5 years but he would NEVER leave me alone!😱 So when mike the rapist came
into play, I was forced to be with glenn william greven!!! NO 1 cared!!!
Especially lancast-whore!😱

lanc. is the WORST place for a raped lady! All raped ladies should KILL themselves in lancast-whore!😰😱😨

+Tara Keebler

That's lan-cast-whore pa.😰😱😨😰😱😨😰😱😨

Though this seemed like a "forgotten" album from Tom that has some of his silliest yet more energetic songs that are so great!

If you love the '80s, if you love adventure, if you love the idea of going back---YOU CAN!

So this is what it looks like when I get a Ear Worm

If that ear worm is Tom. I am good with that! :)

Like the horns and frisky beat. Change-up to the usual Petty sound.

I only saw this video once back in the day and I loved it, but I didn't "remember" it being a Tom Petty video. Makes perfect sense, though! Great Stuff from the master of music videos! Thanks for posting!

1985... those were the days!

COCAINE

Don't forget the horn section....

In a later interview, Tom said about this video, cocaine is a great drug.

Tracy McCarthy This song was released in June 3, 1985 as the 3rd single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 6th studio album «Southern Accents» (1985). Musically it is an uptempo number that pays tribute to the Memphis Soul style, with heavy emphasis on horns and funk-inspired rhythm guitar. This music video continues in the «Alice in Wonderland» motif of «Don’t Come Around Here No More» and riffs on the ‘model annoyed by flying insect with the face of the singer superimposed’ as in then-recent video for The Cars’ song «You Might Think», which was released from their 5th studio album «Heartbeat City» (1984).

Definitely my favorite Tom Petty song other than "Don't come around here". Rock & Roll!

"Southern Accents" was a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics really made this album on production. What I would give to go back to 1985..

It’s pity that Dave Stewart is not shown in this video.

During the recording of southern accents TP and the HB were pretty much coked up all the time during these sessions that it was rumored that TP even broke his wrist
Top tracks on this album for me
We're
don't come around here
Rebels
Gonna make it better

I'm afraid not. 

Tom never said he knew who set the fire. If you have a link showing that please share, that would be new info.!

Word is that Tom punched the wall of the studio after listening to some tracks he didn't like. The end result were broken bones in that hand that required a cast and a couple screws.

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Israel Rico the whole thing about them bein coked up makes complete sense. Just watch this and Dont Come Around Here No More... that spells "drug trip"!!

is this the same lady from the cars video "you kept it going, til the sun went down...you kept it...goin"

The Mid-80's,,,when record companies spent a S-H-*-*L-O-A-D of money on videos!!

The other video (Don't come around here no more) was better, as was the song. But the girl looks better in this one

+dave4248 This actually is the same girl as the other video, Wish Foley.

people tend not to look as good when they have large chunks cut out of them

lo e the horn players routine and the black chick can dance oh yeah

can someone tell me the brand of guitar mike Campbell is using in this video???

It's a Vox Teardrop, or something really similar...

I think it is Tom's Vox Teardrop

Still better than most videos put out today.

This is the second video filmed in aluminum foil lined walls that I've seen in as many days. What's really creepy is that I watched the movie "bug" with Ashley Judd not too long ago and y'all should just see it to find out how really creepy the idea of ear worms are. Brilliant analogy, Mr. Petty <3

Such crazy, fun, intelligent, cool music. Always great lyrics. Very sexy. "Mavericks." This video is so cool, love the beautiful, sexy vocals, love the lyrics, my friend is watching this video , screaming, "I remember this creative, different video, good vibes." Were having fun watching Tom Petty and the beautiful Heartbreakers.

Probably find out by checking this video on IMDB.
Yeap. Her name is "Wish Foley"

Her name is Wish Foley.

she is cute

Now I know why Q-Tip packages warn you not to insert them into your ear - you might crush Tom Petty!

Same girl as Alice in Wonderland from the last video. And we all know what happened to her. I wonder how long the nightmares lasted.

What happened to her?

Talk about earworms!

It's safe to say I haven't seen this video since 1985. Just goes to show you hot chicks in videos never go out of style. I fotgot how comical this video was. The 80's had great imagination to their videos. I do hope she aged well.

Buddy`s best friend in ¨Family¨ . she got pretty

Tom ROCKS and has for many years,and many more I hope!

I wish Tom Petty would crawl in my ear.

How have I never seen this video before until now??? This is one of my favorite Heartbreakers songs! Crazy weird video but I love it because Tom Petty is so adorable no matter what!!!!<3

I want those glasses

I like a little crazy

He wasn't an a hole, he just wasn't cooperative at some times. But you gotta understand where he was coming from and that he had a reason.

Has anyone noticed his weird sunglases?