Jammin’ Me
Producers
Jammin’ Me Lyrics
You got me in a corner
You got me against the wall
I got nowhere to go
I got nowhere to fall
Take back your insurance
Baby nothing is guaranteed
Take back your acid rain
Let your TV bleed
[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby, you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away, but it's not over
[Verse 2]
Take back your angry slander
Take back your pension plan
Take back your ups and downs of your life in raisin-land
Take back Vanessa Redgrave
Take back Joe Piscopo
Take back Eddie Murphy
Give 'em all some place to go
[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby, you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away, but it's not over
Take back your Iranian torture
And the Apple in young Steve's eye
Yeah, take back your losing streak
Check your front wheel drive
[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
[Verse 3]
Take back Pasadena
Take back El Salvador
Take back that country club
They're trying to build outside my door
[Chorus]
You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby, you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away, but it's not over
[Outro]
Quit jammin' me
Oh, you're jammin' me
You're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Oh, you're jammin' me
About
“Jammin' Me” was written by guitarist Mike Campbell a while before Tom Petty added lyrics to it with Bob Dylan as the two looked through newspaper headlines.
It was released as the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers seventh album Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough). “Jammin' Me” topped the US Rock chart. And while all four of the album’s singles appeared on that chart, this was the only one to cross over onto the Hot 100, peaking at #18 in June 1987. It was also a hit in New Zealand.
Q&A
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Mike Campbell told Songfacts:
“Jammin Me” was interesting because I wrote the track and gave it to Tom, and he held it for a while and didn’t do anything with it. Then I guess he was working with Bob [Dylan] one day, and they came up with some words – I guess they were picking words out of a newspaper or off the television, and Tom said “Oh, I’ve got this track of Mike’s” and they inserted those words over the track. I wasn’t there when Bob wrote the words to it, but I was pretty thrilled to hear that he had contributed to it. We just went in and recreated the demo to it.
- 1.Jammin’ Me
- 7.All Mixed Up
