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Artist: Tom Petty
Canonical path: /tom-petty/don-t-treat-me-like-a-stranger
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Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger
Read Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger lyrics by Tom Petty on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger
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How can you walk away
How can you look away
How can you run away
And make me feel bad
Hear what I have to say
Hear what I have to say
How can you look away
And make me so sad
Please don’t treat me like a stranger
No don’t treat me like a stranger
I knew you so well
You never can tell
Don’t treat me like a stranger
She was a friend of mine
Such a good a friend of mine
She was a friend of mine
And now it’s all over
And I don’t know why that is
And I don’t know what went wrong
I’ll fight like a tiger
If you put me in a corner
What am I supposed to say
What am I supposed to do
What’s left of me to say
If you don’t know me
That’s just the way it is
That’s just the way things go
If you’re so all alone
Why don’t you show me
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Tom Petty performs "Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger", and this lyric page sits inside the Tom Petty catalog on LyroVerse.
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