Ya’ don’t have to live like a refugee…

        Someone needs to hear this again…, even if they’ve heard it before…

“We got somp’m we both know and
we don’t talk too much about it.
Ain’t no real big secret. - All the same,
somehow we can’t get around it.

Listen! - It don’t really matter to me baby!
You believe what you wanna’ believe.
Ya’ see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
     (Ya’) don’t have to live like a refugee.

Somewhere, somehow, somebody
must’a kicked you around some.
Tell me why you wanna’ lay there
(and) revel in your abandon.

Honey, it don’t make no difference to me baby!
Everybody’s had to fight to be free!
Ya’ see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
     (Ya’) don’t have to live like a refugee.
No baby, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
     (Ya’) don’t have to live like a refugee.

No! - Baby, we ain’t the first.
I’m sure a lot of other lovers’ve been hurt.
Right now this seems real to you,
but it’s one of those things
you got to feel to be true!

Somewhere, somehow, somebody
must’a 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!
Ya’ see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
     (Ya’) don’t have to live like a refugee.
No, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
     (Ya’) don’t have to live like a refugee.

No, you don’t have to live like a refugee!
     Ya’ don’t have to live like a refugee.
Oh, oh, oh…!!!”+

--RK, 10:42pmEDST, 10/11/2015
     Music video by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
     [Lyrics newly transcribed and accurate.]